All three county cross country teams made the trip to Allen County on Saturday as Spencerville hosted the Bearcat Invitational.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the girls red division portion of the meet, the Lady Archers of Antwerp led local squads with a sixth-place finish while Wayne Trace placed seventh as a team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Lady Raiders\u2019 Kiara Bahena was the first finisher for Paulding County, recording a time of 21:06.8 in crossing the line to take fifth place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Faith Meraz placed 47th in 25:14.4 for the red, white and blue followed by Elizabeth Mohr (52nd, 26:06.7), Libby Meraz (57th, 26:41.4), Anna Meraz (58th, 27:13.5) and Brenna Thomas (65th, 29:05.0).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kate Farr was the first Antwerp runner, placing 28th in 23:54.9, with Aeriel Snyder taking 30th in 24:10.0. Emma Saul (39th, 24:34.8), Isabelle Graham (44th, 25:09.8), Emerson Litzenberg (49th, 25:40.7) and Makenna Smith (50th, 25:48.3).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Panther boys ran in the black division race where the maroon and white posted a 12th place team finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cully Thompson led the way for Paulding by taking 60th in 21:08.5 while Caleb Thompson finished 66th in 21:57.1. The rest of the Panther lineup included Eli Jones (74th, 22:28), Wesley Ludwig (94th, 24:19), Garret McClure (96th, 24:29), Jeremiah Koenig (97th, 24:37), Greyson Harder (99th, 25:07), Josh Lemieux (102nd, 25:32) and Alex Tresler (115th, 32:08).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Lady Panthers had a pair of individuals take place with Claire Miller posting a 65th place finish in 25:18.3 and Cassie Weller finished 81st in 27:28.0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the varsity boys red division race, both Antwerp and Wayne Trace had four runners cross the finish line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Avin Johnson paced the Archers, finishing 21st in 19:05.3, with Kamren Johnson taking 26th in 19:13.9. Alex Zijlstra (40th, 20:07.5) and Zach Lockhart (82nd, 22:35.5) were the other two blue and white runners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wayne Trace was led by Maddox Treece, who posted a time of 19:45.7 to finish in 34th place. Other Raider runners were Austin Lyons (68th, 21:50.9), Trent Thornell (94th, 24:46.0) and Noah Schisler (104th, 27:57.1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Antwerp\u2019s junior high girls team took fifth place as Leigha Doster (14:17.5) and Gabriella Snyder (14:18.2) took 21st and 22nd place, respectively. Other blue and white runners were Emily Laker (49th, 15:08.8), Jennifer Lawhorn (60th, 15:35.9), Taylor Steibling (68th, 15:54.9), Maclaren Ehrhart (90th, 17:07.5) and Emory Ehrhart (103rd, 17:45.4).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ingrid Bautista was Wayne Trace\u2019s lone runner, posting a time of 17:58.4 to finish 106th overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seth Rosswurm led the Raider junior high boys squad, recording a time of 12:49.2 in seizing 30th place overall. Riley Manz (48th, 13:25.7), Colton Kimmel (58th, 13:42.7), Eli Treece (59th, 13:44.6), Cole Manz (126th, 15:33.5) and Konnor Wannemacher (172nd, 18:25.6) rounded out the Raider runners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Antwerp\u2019s Grayson Kelso was the only blue and white finisher, recording a time of 21:32.9 in taking 182nd place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
All three county cross country teams made the trip to Allen County on Saturday as Spencerville hosted the Bearcat Invitational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2301,7,5],"tags":[970,13154,3027,12,54],"class_list":["post-33726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-general-news","category-school","category-sports","tag-archers","tag-bearcat-invite","tag-cross-country","tag-ohio","tag-raiders"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-8LY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 03:34:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}