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Field events strength helps HNHS girls' track team place second at Luers

Alli Harris.
Photo by Cindy Klepper.

Once again the field events were a difference maker for the Huntington North High School girls track team as it finished second in a quadrangular meet Thursday, May 14, at Bishop Luers.

The Lady Vikings used three field event wins - two by Alli Harris, to score 73 points.

Snider won the meet with 82 points, Bishop Luers was third with 58 and Harding was fourth with 31.

Harris led HNHS to a pair of 1-2 finishes in the throwing events. The senior won the discus with a heave of 116-08, with Kayla Lund placing second, and she won the shot with a throw of 35-06 to top teammate Kiela Clore.

Alyssa Hurlburt got the other HNHS field events win, claiming the long jump at 16-08.

Gretchen Spahr got the lone HNHS victory on the track, winning the 3,200-mter run in 12:08.31 to lead teammate Molly King across the line.

Tayah Kline added a second in the 100-meter hurdles and a third in the 300-meter intermediate hurdles to the HNHS cause, and King and Hacker went 2-3 in the 1,600 meter run. Olivia Eckert added a second in the 800-meter run.

The HNHS junior varsity topped its two competitors, nipping Snider by one point, 70-69, with Luers finishing with 50 points.

HNHS junior varsity winners were Cierra Boyd in the 100-meter dash, Samantha Wright in the 400-meter dash, Katie Shomo in the 300 hurdles, Kelly Myers leading a 1-2-3 in the discus and Allison Louthan doing the same in the shot put.