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OBETZ -- Beaver Local seventh-grader Samantha Williams won at the OHSAA 7th & 8th Grade State Cross Country Championships on Sunday.
She topped the 408-runner field in the Division A Championship girls race, covering the 2-mile course at Fortress Obetz in 11 minutes, 13.9 seconds.
Dublin Grizzell eighth-grader Hadley Dimitris was second in 11:24.2.
East Liverpool eighth-grader Teagan Fink was 178th (14:12.5).
Williams’ time was the third fastest out of 1,089 girls overall in four races.
The top finishers in the Division B Championship gurus race were Minford eighth-grader Addi Lloyd (11:00.6) and Waynesville eighth-grader Audrey Behmyer (11:10.9).
Winners in the girls open races were Bexley eighth-grader Kate Dorn in Division A (12:43.7) and Centerville Watts eighth-grader Madilynn Brown in Division B (12:40.0).
In the Division A Championship boys race, Beaver Local eighth-grader Jackson Newman was 233rd (12:49.8), East Liverpool eighth-grader Nolan Gunning was 328th (13:29.5) and East Liverpool eighth-grader Lucas DeLong was 456th (16:42.0).
Three Southern Local runners ran in the Division A Open boys race. For the Indians, eighth-grader Michael Smith was 41st (12:40), seventh-grader Aydn Carey was 70th (13:07) and seventh-grader Jedidiah Farnsworth was 293rd (19:02).
A total of 1,373 boys ran across four divisions.
Boys winners were Lancaster General Sherman eighth-grader Eli Offers in the Division A Championship (10:46.0); Perrysburg eighth-grader Grant Schutt in Division B Championship (10:16.4); Westlake Burneson eighth-grader Henry Goebel in the Division A Open (11:09.5) and Centerville Watts eighth-grader Evan Harner in Division B Open (11:00.7).
Fortress Obetz will host the OHSAA high school state cross country meet on Nov. 7.