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IL High School Runners Credited With Saving Man
MACHESNEY PARK, Ill. (AP) -- Three northern Illinois high school runners are being credited with thinking -- and moving -- quickly to save a man's life.

Sixteen-year-old Ricky Perkins, 17-year-old Cameron Reed and 18-year-old Tim Perian run track and cross-country at Harlem High School.

They were running at a park on Feb. 8 when they found a man with a medical condition who had fallen in the snow.

The man was barely responsive, and the teens said they knew they needed to act fast.

Perkins tells the Rockford Register-Star that they sent Reed to get help because he runs a 4:53 mile. Reed says he ran at "race pace" the whole way back.

Harlem Principal Joe Hazen says the man is expected for fully recover. Hazen presented the three students with awards Friday.

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