By John Rittenhouse
The Hills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth track teams helped form six-team fields at the Camden Conference meet in Tracy Friday.
One day after competing at the Red Rock Conference meet in Slayton, the Patriots showed some stamina by placing well against some different league opponents.
H-BC-E coach Tom Goehle had no point totals at his disposal, but he said the Patriot girls placed second while the boys placed third.
Canby-Minneota won both team titles.
The girls had a strong showing in Tracy with seven conference championships.
Erin Boeve claimed a pair of titles by winning the long and triple jumps with respective 15-5 1/2 and 31-11 1/2 distances.
Brittney Rozeboom (6-0 in the pole vault), Bev Wurpts (5:46.98 in the 1,600-meter run), Cassi Tilstra (1:02.92 in the 400-meter dash) and Mya Mann (2:34.24) also claimed conference titles in individual events.
The Patriots also fielded the winning 1,600-meter relay. Mann, Boeve, Wurpts and Tilstra covered the distance in 4:18.97.
Tilstra and Wurpts placed second in individual events. Tilstra cleared 6-0 in the pole vault. Wurpts cleared the 300-meter hurdles in 53.53.
The H-BC-E boys left Tracy with five conference titles in hand.
Brad Haak (50.84 in the 400), Tyler Bush (2:04.44 in the 800) and Chris Reid (23.05 in the 200) won individual titles at the meet.
H-BC-E also fielded the winning 400- and 800-meter relays that turned in respective 47.23 and 1:36.74 times.
Reid, Tyson Metzger, Lee Jackson and Jesse Leuthold ran the 400. Reid, Leuthold, Lee Walraven and Haak teamed up in the 800.
Patriot Adam Sieff cleared the 110-meter hurdles in 20.6 to place second.
Here is a look at the rest of H-BC-E's top-six finishers during the Camden Conference meet.
H-BC-E girls
Third place: 800 relay (Danielle Fransman, Tilstra, Melinda Feucht and Boeve), 1:59.12.
Fourth place: Rozeboom, 1,600, 6:05.75; 3,200 relay (Tyra Henrichs, Chelesa Fink, Kerri Fransman and Amanda Tilstra), 11:34.71; D.Fransman, 200, 29.17; A.Tilstra, 3,200, 13:32.88.
Fifth place: 400 relay (Feucht, D.Fransman, Fink and Kelly Mulder), 56.11; K.Fransman, 3,200, 1332.88.
H-BC-E boys
Third place: Roger DeBoer, 110 hurdles, 21.12; Bush, 1,600, 4:50; Kale Wiertzema, 3,200, 11:20.79; 1,600 relay (Walraven, Metzger, Jackson and Haak), 3:52.93.
Fourth place: Sieff, 300 hurdles, 50.45; 3,200 relay (Wiertzema, Devin DeBoer, John Sandbulte and Kerry Fink), 9:57.96.
Fifth place: Reid, long jump, 18-2; Lee Farrell, 110 hurdles, 23.86; Walraven, 400, 55.9; Jackson, 800, 2:11.76; Fink, 3,200, 11:55.24.
Sixth place: Bush, triple jump, 35-2; Bush, high jump, 5-4; Leuthold, 100, 11.82; Greg Van Batavia, 1,600, 5:09; Michael Bos, 3,200, 12:30.36.