Mt. Blue hasn’t missed the state meet in boys’ cross country in what seems like forever.

To coach Kelley Cullenberg, it has been forever. The boys have never missed the meet in her tenure.

This year, that could change, and it has nothing to do with anything anyone can control.

“Early in the season, we lost one of our runners to a freak injury, he was kicking a soccer ball around,” Cullenberg said. “This week (another runner) was walking down the hall at his house and somehow he did a number on his pinkie toe. It’s fractured in several places and he’s out six weeks.”

Cullenberg isn’t counting her team out of it just yet, though.

“We’re going to have to work real hard, but we can still do it,” Cullenberg said.