By John RittenhouseThe Hills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth-Edgerton cross country runners played the role of hosts during the first Patriot Invitational staged at the Beaver Creek Golf Course Monday.The meet, which was the first one hosted by an H-BC squad since 1983, featured eight area teams, including Adrian High School.Adrian and H-BC-E-E battled each other for the girls’ varsity team title, and it was the Dragons that came out on top with a 42-43 win.Morgan Lynn set the pace for the Dragons by winning the individual title with a time of 14:43.Kelly Banck (seventh in 16:28), Krissi Thier (10th in 16:49), Megan Henning (14th in 17:07) and Sarah Kruger (22nd in 18:12) padded Adrian’s team tally.Cassi and Amanda Tilstra placed fifth and sixth with respective 15:52 and 16:03 times to lead the Patriot girls.Mya Mann (13 th in 16:59), Jill Weitgenant (15th in 17:09) and Rayna Sandoval (17th in 17:22) round out the varsity runners for the Patriot girls.The Adrian boys placed third out of four complete boys’ varsity teams on hand for the meet. H-BC-E-E was incomplete.Brandon Bullerman led the Dragons by finishing 13th in 16:57.Lee Stover (18th in 17:21), Chad Janssen (19th in 17:27), Paul Honermann (20th in 17:50) and Pete Jensen (27th in 18:11) padded Adrian’s team tally.Kyle Knips and David Brake finished 30th and 31st in 18:57 and 19:38 without influencing the scoring.H-BC-E-E’s Tyler Bush won the boys’ varsity individual title with a time of 15:33.Todd Alberty placed 11th in 16:48, Kale Wiertzema 12th in 16:55 and Derek Haak 28th in 18:12 for the Patriots.Here is a look at the varsity team standings and the rest of the individual efforts turned in by H-BC-E-E and Adrian runners during Monday’s meet.Girls’ varsity: Adrian 42, H-BC-E-E 43, Murray County Central 54, Worthington 74.Boys’ varsity: Southwest Christian 22, West Lyon 57, Adrian 62, Worthington 78.Boys’ junior varsityH-BC-E-E: Devin DeBoer 10th, 11:53; Adam Finke 11th, 12:03; John Sandbulte, 13th, 12:13; Tom Janssen, 17th, 12:39; Jared Drenth, 18th, 12:41; Stephan Harsma, 30th, 13:41.Adrian: Ethan Wieneke, fifth, 11:26; Aaron Mormann, sixth, 11:27; Kelly Seeman, 14th, 12:15; Brad Brake, 20th, 12:46; Dustin Lonneman, 23rd, 13:11; Eldon Vaselaar, 28th, 13:44; Michal Berrie, 31st, 13:45; Trent Lutmer, 36th, 14:57.Girls’ junior varsityH-BC-E-E: Amanda Connors, third, 14:10.Boys’ junior highH-BC-E-E: Dustin Verhey, first, 5:48; Cody Penning, sixth, 6:19; Grant Hoogendoorn, 10th, 6:24; Luke Tiesler, 13th, 6:31; Tyler Larson, 14th, 6:32; Derek Drenth, 23rd, 7:05; B.J. Kruse, 28th, 7:28.Adrian: Ross Wieneke, third, 6:04; Jarod Boltjes, fourth, 6:05; Kyle Henning, ninth, 6:22; Collin Lynn, 17th, 6:38; Zach Runia, 18th, 6:41; Jordan Pater, 25th, 6:59; Jared Altman, 35th, 7:43.Junior high girlsAdrian: Anna Sauer, sixth, 8:11.
