Wright, Lohse, Vohs win two events to lead Lady Cats at home meet

Louisburg senior Delaney Wright cruised to a victory in the 400-meter dash Thursday at the Louisburg Invitational.

Slowly making her way back from an injury suffered during basketball season, Delaney Wright is on her way to returning to form that she showed last season when she won state titles in three different events.

Wright participated in two of those Thursday during the Louisburg Invitational and took first in both the long jump and 400-meter dash.

In all, the Lady Cats finished third out of seven teams with 119 points and put together a strong performance at their home meet.

Wright scratched on three of her four attempts in the long jump, but she recorded one of 17 feet, which earned her the gold medal there. In the 400-meter dash, Wright blew away the competition in 1:01.62 and won by four seconds.

Junior Emma Lohse also won a pair of events for the Lady Cats in the sprints. She took gold in the 100 dash in 13.24 seconds as she edged out Prairie View’s Kinley Baker.

In the 200 dash, Lohse edged Spring Hill’s Gavyn Hurley to win that event in 27.36 seconds. Lohse also helped Delaney Wieland, Mackenzie Rooney and Emma Vohs to a third place finish in the 4×400 relay in 4:31.

Wieland (14.26) and Annmarie Walton (30.83) finished sixth in the 100 and 200, respectively.

Rooney scored points in both hurdle events for Louisburg as she took second in the 300 hurdles with a time of 52.28 and sixth in the 100 hurdles in 19.12.

Vohs led the Lady Cats in the distance races as she won the 800 run in 2 minutes and 31 seconds. Junior Ashley Branine was fourth at 2:47 and senior Aubryn Berck took fifth in 2:48.

Vohs, Branine, Berck and Maddy Rhamy also won the 4×800 relay in 10:48.

Rhamy was third in the 3,200-meter run in 13:13 and sophomore Erin Apple was sixth in 15:28. Junior Nova Ptacek was fifth in the 1,600 run in 6:42.

In the field events, Katie Elpers recorded her best throw in the javelin with a mark of 110 feet, 9 inches to win the event for the first time this season. Teammate Emma Prettyman was sixth at 94-4 and also finished sixth in the shot put at 31-4

Louisburg also took gold in the pole vault when sophomore Maddy Carpenter-Ross cleared a personal best mark of 8-11.

Wieland scored points in the long jump as she took fourth at 15-7.75 and Walton was fifth in the high jump at 4-6.

Louisburg is back in action today when the Lady Cats travel to the Spring Hill Invitational. Events are set to begin at 4 p.m.

Other results are: 

100 dash: Katherine Carter, 18th, 16.74

200 dash: Carter, 17th, 35.15

800 run: Nova Ptacek, 8th, 3:01

1,600 run: Erin Apple, 7th, 6:48

100 hurdles: Kate Frederick, 8th, 19.64

300 hurdles; Frederick, 10th, 57.29

Long jump: Annmarie Walton, 14th, 13-5

Shot put: Maddy Fuller, 19th, 22-11

Discus: Emma Prettyman, 7th, 82-4

Javelin: Aspen Coulter, 10th, 81-0; Frederick, 16th, 74-10; Ella Lancaster, 20th, 63-8