North Union athletes punch tickets to 2025 OHSAA state track and field meet
North Union’s Gabby Lindsey competes in the high jump event during a regular season home track meet. The Lady Cat qualified for the OHSAA state meet in two events last week. (Gazette photo by Aleksei Pavloff)
Gabby Lindsey and Griffin Osborne will be representing North Union this week in the Ohio High School Athletic Association state track championships.
Lindsey will be in two events and Osborne in one following last weekend’s Division II regional meet at Lexington High School last week.
Lindsey finished second in the girls 400 with the time of 56.77 seconds while Osborne was second in the boys long with a leap of 22 feet, 1 inch.
The top four in each event automatically qualify for the state meet but Lindsey will also be among the participants in the girls 200.
She was sixth (25.53) in the regional final but her time was among the top two of those outside the automatic qualifiers, allowing her to advance to the state meet.
Lindsey also earned placement points in the long jump, finishing seventh at 16-5.25.
Other participants in the regional meet were:
Girls
Lauren Hall (12th, 1600, 5:45.20; 15th, 3200, 12:44.49), Stella Hancock (12th, pole vault, 9-0; 15th, 100 hurdles, 21.72), 4×800 team of Savannah Amstutz, Hall, Morgan Mask, Kennedy Ludwig (16th, 10:41.88), 4×200 team of Hancock, Glory Blevins, Rylan Riffle, Lindsey (12th, 1:48.13), 4X100 team of Riffle, Kailyn Colegrove, Blevins, Hancock (15th, 51.95).
Boys
Nick VanHoose (16th, 100, 11.58), Wyatt Davis (12th, 19-11), 4×100 team of VanHoose, Kadrin Riffle, Wyatt Arver, Osborne (13th, 44.57).
