By John Rittenhouse
The Hills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth track teams made a good impression during their first appearances at the Camden Conference meet staged in Tracy Friday.
Since Ellsworth will be competing in the league in volleyball and basketball starting next season, meet officials decided to invite the H-BC-E track teams to their annual conference meet this spring.
H-BC-E definitely made an impact at the event, setting three meet records and placing second in six-team fields on both sides of the team competition.
The Patriot boys established a pair of meet records while compiling 139 points.
Brad Haak won the 800-meter run with a meet record time of 1:59.04.
Haak also was a member of H-BC-EÕs 800-meter relay, which placed first with a meet standard of 1:37.11. Chris Reid, Chris Willers and Chris Fransman are other members of the team.
Reid, Willers and Clint Roozenboom won conference titles in individual events.
Reid covered 19-6 in the long jump, Willers ran 400 meters in 52.46 and Roozenboom cleared 8-0 in the pole vault.
Willers, Reid, Haak and Lee Jackson also won the 1,600-meter relay title with a time of 3:45.13.
Fransman placed second in a pair of individual events, running 200 meters in 23.86 and clearing 6-0 in the high jump.
Reid was second in the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.43, and Roozenboom was second in the 110-meter high hurdles in 19.27.
The Patriot girls set one meet record while scoring 126 points to place second in their team standings.
The 3,200-meter relay team of Cassi and Shanna Tilstra, Janelle Jenniges and Bev Wurpts established a meet standard with their winning time of 10:23.89.
The Tilstras, Jenniges and Brittney Rozeboom also took top honors in the 1,600-meter relay with a 4:24.43 effort.
Individual conference championships went to the Tilstras and Jenniges.
Cassi Tilstra ran 400 meters in 1:03.21, and Shanna Tilstra covered 800 meters in 2:35.12. Cassi also placed second in the pole vault by clearing a height of 6-0, and Shanna was second in the high jump after clearing 4-6.
Jenniges, who was second in the 800 with a time of 2:35.51, won the pole vault by clearing 6-6
Connie Lewis placed second for the Patriots in the triple jump with an effort of 29-0. Wurpts ran 3,200 meters in 13:43 to place second.
H-BC-EÕs 800-meter relay team of Lewis, Kelsey Hansel, Kelly Mulder and LaDonna Sandstede finished second in 2:01.57.
The Patriots will compete at the Sub-Section 10 Track and Field Meet today in Pipestone. Meet time is 4 p.m.
Here is a look at the team standings and the rest of H-BC-EÕs top six finishers from the Camden Conference meet.
Boys' standings: Canby-Minneota 176, H-BC-E 139, Russell-Tyler-Ruthton-Lake Benton 88, Dawson-Boyd 61, Lincoln HI 54. Lakeview 27.
Girls' standings: C-M 214, H-BC-E 126, R-T-R-LB 100, LH 75, D-B 17, Lakeview 10.
H-BC-E boys
Third place: Cody Scholten, pole vault, 7-6; Fransman, long jump, 18-2 1/2; 3,200 relay (Greg Van Batavia, Kerry Fink, Derek Haak and Kale Wiertzema), 10:17.09; Jackson, 1,600, 5:00.97; Van Batavia, 300 hurdles, 52.05.
Fourth place: Jackson, 800, 2:17.02; 400 relay (Van Batavia, Roozenboom, Jesse Leuthold and Scholten), 50.57.
Fifth place: B.Haak, high jump, 5-6; Travis Broesder, triple jump, 27-3.
Sixth place: Van Batavia, triple jump, 24-8; Devin DeBoer, 110 hurdles, 22.3; Leuthold, 100, 12.7; DeBoer, 300 hurdles, 53.15; Nathan Fick, 3,200, 11:58.
H-BC-E girls
Third place: Heather Albers, pole vault, 5-0; Lewis, shot, 30-0 3/4; Wurpts, 400. 1:06.84.
Fourth place: Melinda Feucht, 100 hurdles, 19.46; 400 relay (Sandstede, Lewis, Sarah Rozeboom and Brittney Rozeboom), 57.72.
Sixth place: S.Rozeboom, 300 hurdles, 59.22; B.Rozeboom, 1,600, 6:10.96.