By John RittenhouseThe final teams to begin preparations for the upcoming spring sports season are the Hills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth golf squads.The Patriots were scheduled to stage their first practice on April 4, with their first meet set for April 14.Although H-BC-E coach Tim Lange was unable to comment on the upcoming season, H-BC and Ellsworth school officials released participant rosters for this story.The H-BC-E boys, who are coming off a 10-7 campaign that featured a third-place finish in the Red Rock Conference Tournament and a fourth-place effort at the Sub-Section 10 Tournament, have a 22-player roster.The roster consists of two seniors, five juniors, four sophomores, eight freshmen, one eighth-grader and two seventh-graders.The Patriots lost All-RRC player Tom Janssen and Jeremy Elbers to graduation, but they return four players from the 2004 sub-section squad.After earning All-RRC status in 2004, junior Ben Herman and sophomore Tom Scholten return as proven players.Herman, Scholten and juniors Jason Martens and Nick Deutsch played for H-BC-E during the sub-section tournament.Seniors Kenny Bittner and Travis Broesder and juniors Jason Hup and Javier Cisneros round out the upperclassmen on the roster.Other sophomores on the team include Zach Schroer, Adam Finke and Josh Nolte.The freshmen participating in the program include Blake Crawford, Nic DeHaan, Sean Goedtel, Caleb Hansel, Grant Hoogendoorn, Brian Popkes, Garrett Beaner and Mark Aeikens.Eighth-grader Chaiden Kuehl and seventh-graders Andrew Scholten and Tyler Chapa round out the roster.The H-BC-E girls didn’t compete at the varsity level in 2004.Seven girls (four freshmen and three seventh-graders) are listed on the 2005 roster.Freshmen Toni Nagel, Jessica Randolph, Brittany Boeve and Lyntausha Kuehl, and seventh-graders Tanya Ackerman, Danielle Baker and Samantha McGaffee make up the roster.
