Cashion girls 3rd in loaded 2A field

Just how good was Class 2A girls track and field in 2025?

When Cashion won the state championship in 2018, the team scored 86 points, which was 20 points better than the state runner-up.

Last weekend at Western Heights High School, the Lady Wildcats won two state titles in relays, another individual crown and racked up 87 points.

And got third. “That tells you the immense competition there was this year,” said Cashion track coach Tony Wood. “It was just an unreal year for girls in this class, especially at the top.”

When the dust settled, it was Tonkawa at the top with 100 points.

Hooker was the runner- up with 94. Cashion’s total was 20 points better than fourth-place Fairview.

Coming into this season, Cashion has a team state title and individual titles on the track and in the field in its treasure chest.

What the Lady Wildcats had never done, however, was win gold in a relay.

“We got that monkey off our backs,” said Wood.

Twice, in fact. One came Friday when the 800 meter relay team of Khloe Kastner, Chevy Eubanks, Kate Nabavi and Abby Hobgood finished in 1:45.67 for a state title.

Kastner gave Cashion the lead with her first leg and Hobgood finished it off by holding off a fastcharging Analisee Gonzalez of Hooker.

The other relay gold came Saturday in the 400.

“That one was extra special,” said Wood.

The reason? Abby Hobgood, who ran the first leg, was joined by her younger sister Reese Hobgood, who was the third leg.

In between was Chevy Eubanks and it was Kastner - merely a freshman - who brought home the gold by tracking down Fairview’s Shalee Gould in the closing meters.

“It played out exactly how I thought it would,” said Wood. “We had a plan and we knew we’d be somewhere behind Fairview when Khloe got the baton.

“I didn’t quite think she’d be as far back as she was, but she really hawked them down.”

The meet was Kastner’s introduction to the rest of the state.

Not only did she collect gold in the two relays, but also in the long jump.

Her leap of 16 feet, 8 3/4 inches was more than three inches better than runner-up Josi Hayes.

Still not done, Kastner was the silver medalist in the 200 meter dash.

Only Peyton Davis of Stroud was faster and Davis set a new state meet record with her time of 24.64 seconds. Kastner ran it in 25.03.

“What she brings to the table for us is obviously really, really good,” Wood said of the freshman. “She’s got speed. She’s got athletic ability.

“She has all the things you want a kid to be able to do.”

While Kastner was making her first state appearance, Abby Hobgood was offering her swan song.

She did so with four medals.

The senior was on the two winning relays as well as the mile relay team that took fourth.

Joining her were Sierra McCracken, Eubanks and Nabavi as they crossed the line in 4:14.00.

Hobgood was also the bronze medalist in the 100 meter dash with her time of 12.47.

Cashion also grabbed points with its 3,200 meter relay on Friday as Addison McCracken, Nabavi, Reese Hobgood and Sierra Mc-Cracken placed fourth in 10:15.98.

Sierra McCracken also made the medal stand in the 800 with her sixth place finish.

“There was just some outstanding competition this year and our girls were right there,” said Wood. “I was extremely happy with how they competed all weekend.”

••• Cashion’s boys tallied 13 points, the bulk of which came in the final event of the meet.

The mile relay team of Cole Tichenor, Travis Loeffelholz, King Underwood and Hank Brown finished fourth in 3:32.24.

Tichenor grabbed a point in the 400 by finishing eighth, but it was Friday’s preliminaries where he be-came a record setter.

The senior ran a 51.80 in the qualifying race, which set a new Cashion school record.

The previous mark of 52.15 was held by Austin Vandruff.

Luke Baustert grabbed a pair of points for Cashion as well as he placed seventh in the pole vault. Baustert cleared 11-6 in the event.