By John RittenhouseThe Hills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth-Edgerton track teams ended a 10-day layoff by attending the West Lyon Invitational near Inwood, Iowa, Tuesday.The Patriot boys turned in a strong showing by winning eight events and placing second in a five-team field.H-BC-E-E’s girls placed fourth out of six teams and recorded three meet championships.Tyler Bush and Tom LeBoutillier led the Patriot boys by taking top honors in three individual events each.Bush won the 400-, 800- and 3,200-meter runs with respective 51.9, 2:03.6 and 10:31.4 efforts.LeBoutillier won the 110- and 400-meter hurdles with 15.96 and 1:01.32 times. He also won the long jump with a distance of 19-3.Cody Scholten also recorded a pair of wins for the Patriots.Scholten cleared a career-high 6-2 to win the high jump. He won the 200-meter dash with a time of 24.11.Kale Wiertzema turned in a second-place performance for the Patriots by recording a time of 5:05.71 in the 1,600-meter run.Cassi Tilstra played a role in all three of the meet championships produced by the Patriot girls.Tilstra won the 400-meter dash with a career-low time of 1:00.99.She also ran legs with the 1,600- and 3,200-meter relays, which recorded the winning times of 4:19.81 and 10:10.08.Amanda Tilstra, Mya Mann and Jocelyn Bucher round out the 3,200-meter squad. The Tilstras, Ashley and Jocelyn Bucher ran the 1,600.Jocelyn Bucher placed second individually by clearing the 400-meter hurdles in 1:16.67.Here is a look at the team standings and the rest of H-BC-E-E’s Top-Six finishers during the West Lyon Relays.Boys’ standings: West Lyon 101, H-BC-E-E 79, Boyden-Hull-Rock Valley 56, Central Lyon 45, George-Little Rock 10.Girls’ standings: WL 81, B-H-RV 70, West Sioux 59, H-BC-E-E 48, CL 46, G-LR 42Third place: Bush, high jump, 5-10; LeBoutillier, discus, 115-6; 3,200 relay (Wiertzema, Greg Van Batavia, Derek Haak and Lee Jackson), 9:12; John Sandbulte, 400 hurdles, 1:05.12.Fourth place: medley relay (Javier Cisneros, DeAngelo Smith, Soren Trebesch and Haak), 4:09.8; 400 relay (Paul DeLeon, Cody Roozenboom, Trebesch and Roger DeBoer), 49.03; 1,600 relay (Wiertzema, Sandbulte, Van Batavia and Jackson), 3:52.55.Fifth place: DeLeon, 110 hurdles, 18.5; DeLeon, 100, 11.8; Smith, 400, 58.51; Jackson, 800, 2:16.7.Sixth place: Van Batavia, 1,600, 5:17.53.H-BC-E-E girlsThird place: Rosie Lewis, shot put, 30-7; 800 relay (Shelly Sas, Brittany Helgeson, Lewis and Mulder), 1:58.28; Mann, 800, 2:32.52.Fourth place: Rayna Sandoval, 3,000, 12:55; shuttle-hurdle relay (Rose Aristeo, Cassandra Duncan, Chelsi Fink and Kari Roozenboom), 1:22.64; Roozenboom, 100 hurdles, 17.83; Sandoval, 1,500, 5:41.41.Fifth place: C.Tilstra, high jump, 4-8; Tina Majchrzak, 3,000, 13:41; Helgeson, 200, 29.84; sprint-medley relay (Sas, Mulder, Amanda Connors and A.Bucher), 2:01.97; 400 relay (Sas, J.Bucher, A.Bucher and Fink), 56.96.
