By John Rittenhouse
The Hills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth track teams were able to participate in a meet after losing one over the weekend.
The disappointment of having a performance cancelled in Sturgis, S.D., Saturday was erased after some solid performances at the Arrow Relays in Pipestone Tuesday.
H-BC-EÕs boys compiled 98 points to place third out of eight teams in Class B competition.
The Patriot girls scored 67 points to place fourth as a team.
H-BC-E won a combined eight meet titles Tuesday, and six of them came from the boys.
Patriot Chris Reid won the 100-meter dash (11.41) and the long jump (20-8) along with running a leg for H-BC-EÕs winning 1,600-meter relay team that was timed at 3:36.74. Tyler Bush, Lee Walraven and Brad Haak are the other team members.
H-BC-E also won the medley and 3,200-meter relays with respective 3:47.56 and 8:31.72 times.
Tyson Metzger, Greg Van Batavia, Lee Jackson and Haak teamed up in the medley. Jackson, Van Batavia, Bush and Haak ran the 3,200.
Bush also won the 800-meter run in 2:06.06.
Haak and Jesse Leuthold placed second in the high jump (5-8) and 200-meter dash (24.24) respectively.
The 800-meter relay team of Trevor Boltjes, Metzger, Walraven and Leuthold placed second in 1:41.13.
The H-BC-E girls won a pair of events and placed second in four others while finishing fourth as a team.
Erin Boeve covered 15-8 to win the long jump, while LaDonna Sandstede, Boeve, Cassi Tilstra and Bev Wurpts took top honors in the medley relay with a time of 4:39.06.
Wurpts placed second in the 1,600-meter run with a time of 5:47.71, while Amanda Tilstra came in second in the 3,200-meter run in 13:47.41.
H-BC-E also placed second in the girls' 400- and 3,200-meter relays with times of 54.74 and 10:39.98.
Melinda Feucht, Cassi Tilstra, Sandstede and Boeve ran the 400. Mya Mann, Brittney Rozeboom, Boeve and Cassi Tilstra ran the 3,200.
The Patriot teams will compete at the Dakota Relays in Sioux Falls tomorrow and Saturday before returning to Pipestone for the Frisbee Relays Tuesday.
Here is a look at the team standings and the rest of H-BC-EÕs top-six finishers from the Arrow Relays.
Class B boys' standings: Southwest Christian 130, Fulda 112, H-BC-E 98, Elkton 67, Baltic 63, Adrian 55, Lincoln HI 42, Edgerton 20.
Class B girls' standings: Fulda 143, Elkton 82, Baltic 73, H-BC-E 67, SWC 57, Edgerton 56, Adrian 52, LH 38
H-BC-E boys
Third place: Bush, triple jump, 37-7.
Fourth place: Van Batavia, 400, 58.53.
Fifth place: Kale Wiertzema, 3,200, 11:30.8; Roger DeBoer, 110 hurdles, 21.31.
H-BC-E girls
Fourth place: Feucht, 300 hurdles, 58.25; 1,600 relay (Rozeboom, Danielle Fransman, Amanda Laqua and Wurpts), 4:44.53.
Fifth place: Laqua, 110 hurdles, 20.81; 800 relay (Sandstede, Feucht, Fransman and Kelly Mulder), 1:59.92.
Sixth place: C.Tilstra, high jump, 4-4; Mann, 400, 1:07.18; Mann, 200, 29.83.