Staff photo / John Vargo
Maplewood’s Caleigh Richards, left and Howland’s Megan Hipple run during the Billy Goat Challenge on Saturday at the Trumbull County Fairgrounds.

BILLY GOAT CHALLENGE: BAZETTA — Maplewood freshman Caleigh Richards won Saturday’s large-schools girls race in a time of 18:51.5, a school record for the young runner.

Howland sophomore Megan Hipple took third.

Howland’s boys took second in the large schools boys race with 88 points, edging Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin, which had 88. Howland won by the sixth runner having a higher place than ND-CL’s sixth runner.

Lane Goble led the Tigers with a third-place finish, while Canfield’s Nick Plant took fifth.

In the small-school race, the McDonald boys and Mineral Ridge girls won.

The McDonald boys won over Maplewood, 60-71, while Ridge beat out McDonald 44-71.

Mineral Ridge’s Sylvia Traw won the girls race in 21:01.0, while McDonald’s Brody Rupe took the boys race in 17:08.4.

McDonald’s Caleb Domitrovich, Maplewood’s Alex Donaldson, Mineral Ridge Timmy Pappagallo and Girard’s Ricky Marsico round out the boys top five, while McDonald’s Mariah Bregar, Cardinal Mooney’s Sylvia Tsarnas, Badger’s Brooke Polon and East Palestine’s Marissa Giess took the girls top five.