Marion Local's Kathy Dirksen tosses the shot put during Saturday's Cardinal Invitational at New Bremen. Dirksen helped the Marion Local girls to a third-place finish by winning the shot put with a meet record throw of 39-3.

NEW BREMEN - Not only were area athletes racing each other Saturday at New Bremen's Cardinal Invitational, they were also in a race against the weather. Mother Nature won this race, as a driving rain and high whipping winds s . . .