By John RittenhouseStrong individual performances by Luverne’s Lexi Heitkamp and Hills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth-Edgerton’s Tyler Bush proved to be the highlights turned in by athletes representing the Star Herald coverage area at the Worthington Turkey Trot Saturday.Luverne, H-BC-E-E and Adrian were on hand for the 36th running of the event.No team statistics were available from the event, but area talent did well on an individual basis.Heitkamp won her fourth consecutive varsity race of the season after crossing the finish line with a time of 15:21.Amanda Saum placed sixth in 16:44, Kristy Heikes 15th in 17:29 and Victoria Arends 16th in 17:38 for the LHS girls.Adrian’s Morgan Lynn turned in a solid effort during the girls’ varsity race. She placed fourth in 15:38.Kelly Banck placed 22nd in 18:04, Megan Henning 30th in 19:08 and Sarah Kruger 37th in 20:23 for the Dragons.Bush ran a good race to place second in boys’ varsity race with a time of 17:24.Kale Wiertzema placed 16th in 18:38, Todd Alberty 34th in 19:32 and Derek Haak 43rd in 20:16 for the Patriots.Luverne, which placed second to Southwest Christian as a team, received Top-10 races from Tom Ward and Nick Otten. Ward placed fifth in 18:02. Otten finished ninth in 18:15.Jesson Vogt (15th in 18:36), Ruston Aaker (18th in 18:42) and Thomas Pinkel (29th in 19:14) made contributions to Luverne’s team performance.Travis Halfmann (30th in 19:20), Dusty Antoine (32nd in 19:27) and Brent DeGroot (40th in 20:41) ran without influencing the scoring for LHS.Adrian was led by Brandon Bullerman’s 11th-place performance. Bullerman ran an 18:27.Lee Stover (12th in 18:24), Paul Honermann (25th in 19:05), Chad Janssen (26th in 19:11 and Aaron Mormann (40th in 20:04) padded Adrian’s team tally.Ethan Wieneke and David Brake placed 46th and 47th with respective 20:37 and 20:55 times without impacting the scoring for AHS.Here is a look at the rest of the individual results turned in by area runners at Saturday’s meet.Junior varsity boysAdrian: Pete Jensen, first, 11:58; Kyle Knips, seventh, 12:37; Dustin Lonneman, 31st, 14:16; Eldon Vaselaar, 33rd, 14:22; Michal Berrie, 38th, 15:20; Trent Lutmer, 43rd, 16:11.Luverne: Grant Oldre, ninth, 12:50; Craig Oeding, 12th, 13:02; Michael Nelson, 14th, 13:04; Eric Kraetsch, 21st, 13:26; David Nelson, 23rd, 13:43; Jerome Willers, 26th, 13:55.H-BC-E-E: Adam Finke, 11th, 12:59; John Sandbulte, 15th, 13:04; Michael Bos, 29th, 14:05; Jared Drenth, 34th, 14:27; Stephen Harsma, 40th, 15:35.Junior varsity girlsH-BC-E-E: Amanda Tilstra, first, 13:46.Junior high boysH-BC-E-E: Dustin Verhey, fifth, 5:39; Grant Hoogendoorn, 15th, 6:07; Luke Tiesler, 28th, 6:26; Tyler Larson, 34th, 6:34; B.J. Kruse, 42nd, 6:51.Adrian: Jarod Boltjes, 10th, 5:51; Ross Wieneke, 12th, 5:54; Kyle Henning, 20th, 6:13; Collin Lynn, 23rd, 6:18; Jordan Pater, 39th, 6:43; Zach Runia, 49th, 7:09; Jared Altman, 51st, 7:17.Junior high girlsAdrian: Anna Sauer, 25th, 8:04.Luverne: Kayla Raddle, first, 6:08; Amanda Kannas, third, 6:18.H-BC-E-E: Jill Weitgenant.
