NATCHEZ &045; Huntington’s Lady Hounds still have that desire to claim some hardware.

The quest for a big prize in track and field last year came up a bit short, and they had similar results in basketball and softball earlier this school year. So now the Lady Hounds started off with a commanding District 7-1A win Thursday.

Huntington finished with 91 1/2 points with Amite School Center in second with 55. WCCA had 17, and Trinity had 15.

&uot;Our goal at the beginning of the year was to win state, and that hasn’t changed,&uot; Huntington coach Cori Britt said. &uot;We’ve still got some improving to do. We’re improving week to week. I’m proud of them.&uot;

First-place finishes included Lauren Wagoner in the shot at 30-9 1/2, Emily Hazlip in the discus at 86-5 1/2 and the 300 hurdles in 56 seconds and Jessi Moak in the 3,200 in 14:36.

Other results were Wagoner in second in the discus at 79-5, Tiffany Ferguson in second in the high jump at 4-8, second in the 100 in 13.1 seconds, second in the 200 in 27.13 seconds; Brittany Keahey in third in the high jump at 4-6 and third in the 100 hurdles in 19.8 seconds; and Hazlip in second in the long at 13-5.

Jessie Lee was third in the long at 13-1 and second on the 100 hurdles in 18.8, Whitney Bradford was second in the 300 hurdles in 58.19 and second in the 800 in 2:49, Sarah Loomis was third in the 400 in 1:11, Emily Anders was third in the 800 in 2:51 and Katie Cole was second in the mile at 6:24.

The 800-relay team of Hazlip, Lee, Erin Hedrick and Ferguson was third in 1:56; the same ran the 400 in 55.3 seconds for second and the team of Keahey, Cole, Bradford and Hazlip was second in the 1,600 relay in 4:38.