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Runners leave the stadium Sunday during Emily’s Run 5K at Edward Little High School in Auburn. More than 275 runners and walkers are participating in the annual event. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal
Marsha Bennett, lower right, of Auburn gets ready to run Emily’s Run 5K Sunday with her two daughters and two grandchildren at Edward Little High School in Auburn. Pictured from left: Audrey Smith, 1-year-old Sutton Smith, Lauren Wilson, 10-month-old Delaney Wilson and Bennett. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal
Emily Quinnell of Auburn stretches Sunday prior to the start of Emily’s Run 5K at Edward Little High School in Auburn. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal
Dan Campbell of Auburn, back to camera, talks Sunday with runners at the start line of Emily’s Run 5K at Edward Little High School in Auburn. Campbell, a former high school track coach and cancer survivor, rode his bicycle at the front of the race to be sure the course was clear. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal
Sam Laverdiere approaches the stadium Sunday during Emily’s Run 5K at Edward Little High School in Auburn. Laverdiere, 16, won the men’s race with a time of 15:39. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal
Heather Gallant approaches the finish line Sunday during Emily’s Run 5K at Edward Little High School in Auburn. Gallant won the women’s race with a time of 18:08. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal
Calvin Vincent, left, of Auburn and Kyle Simmons of Lewiston approach the finish line Sunday during Emily’s Run 5K at Edward Little High School in Auburn. Vincent left a family vacation on Moosehead Lake at 5 a.m. Sunday to make it to the 8:30 a.m. start time. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal
Tricia Dunton of Wayne and her niece, Hazel Veazie, 7, of Gorham approach the finish line Sunday during Emily’s Run 5K at Edward Little High School in Auburn. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal
Dan Campbell of Auburn wears a picture of Emily Fletcher on his back Sunday during Emily’s Run 5K at Edward Little High School in Auburn. More than 275 people participated in the event, held in memory of Fletcher, a graduate of ELHS who was 21 when killed in a 2004 car crash. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Daryn Slover always pulls for the underdog - what would you expect from someone that was raised in Cleveland and lives in Lewiston. He drinks cheap coffee and cheap beer so that he can afford to put his...