Although others already have finished, Piper Thudium of the Brookfield High School track-and-field Lady Bulldogs pushes herself right to the end as the anchor runner in the 800-meters relay at the April 11 Chillicothe Joe Shy Relays meet. Because she didn’t slack off when her group was last to finish its heat, BHS’ time of 1:58.55 gave it eighth place and a team point by a second over Marshall, which had been in the prior heat. (PAUL STURM/LCL PHOTO)
It’s been a relatively-dreary recent past for Brookfield High School in its spring sports competitions, with the most-upbeat results being an eighth-place finish among 14…