The more Maddie Laezza runs, the easier Sunken Meadow State Park’s 5-kilometer course looks.

The Eastport-South Manor junior made Suffolk history for the second straight week as she won the Class B girls cross country championship in 18 minutes, 1.8 seconds at the Suffolk state qualifier on Thursday in Kings Park. The time shattered the Sunken Meadow course record for a Suffolk runner, which Laezza set with an 18:09.1 only 10 days earlier.

The former soccer player’s distance running hobby is putting her in the history books. Nobody is more shocked by that than Laezza.

“Going into this meet, I was just hoping to break 19 minutes and settle in the 18:50s,” she said. “I just never expected to be this good, and it feels very rewarding . . . So many amazing people have run this course fo

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