O-G girls claim team title at Blue/Gold Invite

BLUE/GOLD INVITEOTTAWA – Maci Maag led five top-15 Ottawa-Glandorf runners across the finish line and the Titans captured the girls team title of the Blue/Gold Invitational on Saturday.Maag was seventh overall with a time of 20:00.38 and Katy Croy was tenth (20:18.00).Izzy Utendorf (20:38.22), Alivia Schroeder (20:47.84) and Brea Recker (20:58.74) were 12th, 13th and 14th in the pack for O-G's 56 point total. Napoleon was second with 71.Bryan was a run-away winner in the boys meet, scoring just 26 points. St. Henry (92) edged Tinora (94) for second, while O-G was eighth, Leipsic 16th and Bluffton 18.Cooper Fischer was O-G's top runner in the boys field, placing eighth in a time of 16:56.50). Leipsic's Calvin Miller was 16th (17:26.08.)OTHER BOYS RESULTSOTTAWA-GLANDORF – 33, Ethan Weis (17:58.79); 62, Connor Johnson (19:01.88); 66, Gage Recker (19:08.23).BLUFFTON – 41, Atticus Prothro (18:19.16); 78, Toby Clevidence (19:39.63).PANDORA-GILBOA – 39, Adam Buell (18:11.72). GALION FESTIVALGALION – Columbus Grove's top five runners all placed among the top ten in leading the Bulldogs to the Roar Division boys title at Saturday's Galion Cross Country Festival.Karter Boggs of Bucyrus was the Roar Division boys champion with a time of 15:55.4. Grove's Caiden Squillante (16:36.0) and Holden Hartzog (16:50.66) were second and third, though, Zach Bryan (17:16.2)was sixth, and Aidan Vogt (17:32.2) and Braylen Best (17:33.8) were ninth and tenth.Hardin Northern's Riley Newton was 27th (19:03.1) in the boys Roar Division race.Grove's girls also did well in their portion of the meet, with Sarah Kamphaus (3rd, 21:10.8), Lily Montgomery (6th, 21:41.8), Alexa Kamphaus (11th, 22:12.5) and Claire Koch (17th, 22:35.9) all posting top-twenty finishes.Upper Sandusky had four runners post a top-twenty finish in the boys Stripes Division.Carter Pohlman (17:33.0) and Henry Minehart (17:36.4) led the Rams by finishing ninth and tenth, respectively. Andrew Leightey was 15th (18:07.6) and Franklin Arnold 16th (18:14.8).In the girls Stripes Division race, Upper Sandusky's Jocelyn Leightey was tenth overall (21:10.0) and Abigail Ault was 13th (21:24.7). OTHER RESULTSBOYS ROAR DIVISIONHARDIN NORTHERN – 54, Camper Evan, 20:45.1; 57, Luke Price 20:54.7; 59, Jake Cook, 20:57.2 GIRLS ROAR DIVISIONCOLUMBUS GROVE – 36, Dakota Dunn, 24:52.2. BOYS STRIPES DIVISIONUPPER SANDUSKY -- 31, Bryce Weyand, 18:53.1. GIRLS STRIPES DIVISIONUPPER SANDUSKY -- 35, Molly Minehart, 23:21.9; 45, Madison Wengerd, 24:19.5; 53, Lia Wilkinson, 25:00.6. SPARTAN ELITE EAST LANSING, Mich. – Aidan Lee placed 13th overall with a time of 16:14.2 and Bryce Hans was 28th (16:43.4) in leading Liberty-Benton's boys cross country team to a ninth place finish in the Spartan Elite Division of the 2025 MSU-Auto Owners Spartan Invitational.Cohen Levenhanger (49th, 17:20.6), Lane Fannin (54th, 17:33.2) and Hudson Day (95th, 18:32.7) also had top 100 placings in the meet.L-B's girls were 19th in the Girls Green Division. Josie Kern was 20th (20:35.7) and Claire McDaniel 59th (21:51.6) in thoe standings.OTHER GIRLS RESULTSLIBERTY-BENTON – 157, Claire St. Amour, 24:10.8; 181, Ava Ellerbrock, 24:50.5; 182, Saraphina Bouaphakeo 24:51.8.