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Patriot runners dominate meet

By John RittenhouseThe Hills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth-Edgerton track teams dominated the competition at the Frisby Relays in Tracy Tuesday.The Patriots walked away with the meet’s championship trophy, which goes to the program that scores the most combined points in girls’ and boys’ competition.H-BC-E-E’s Chris Reid and Erin Boeve also were named the Most Valuable Male and Female Athletes of the meet.The Patriot boys won eight meet titles and the girls racked up seven wins in Tracy.Reid, who placed second in the long jump with a distance of 18-6, won the 100-meter dash in 11.25 and ran legs with a pair of championship relay teams. Reid, Curt Schilling, Zach Boyum and Brad Dyke won the 400-meter relay in 47.27, and Reid, Van Dyke, Devin DeBoer and Todd Alberty posted a win in the 1,600-meter relay with a time of 3:46.67.H-BC-E-E boys also won the 800-meter and medley relays with respective 1:38.62 and 4:01.09 times. Cody Scholten, Kale Wiertzema, Schilling and Tyler Bush won the 800. Alberty, John Sandbulte, Boyum and Lee Jackson ran the medley.Schilling (43-3 1/2 in the shot put, a new H-BC-E-E cooperative record), Scholten (5-8 in the high jump) and Bush (10:24.16 in the 1,600) also won individual events for the Patriots.Wiertzema placed second in the 1,600-meter run in 5:05.06, and Roger DeBoer placed second in the 110-meter hurdles in 19.29. H-BC-E-E placed second in the shuttle-hurdle relay with a time of 1:13.36. Roger DeBoer, Sandbulte, Devin DeBoer and Weston DeBerg formed the team.Boeve, who placed second in the long jump with a distance of 13-9, won the 100-meter dash in 13.34 to lead the Patriot girls at the meet. She also ran a leg with the 400- and 800-meter relays, which produced the winning times of 54.03 and 1:54.93. Cassi Tilstra, Kelly Mulder and Mya Mann joined Boeve in both events. Their time in the 400 is a new cooperative record.The Patriot girls won the medley and shuttle-hurdle relays with respective 4:50.12 and 1:17.65 times. Rosie Lewis, Amanda Connors, Brittney Helgeson and Jocelyn Bucher ran the medley. Kim Janssen, Chelsea Fink, Amanda Tilstra and Kari Roozenboom set a new cooperative record in the shuttle-hurdle event.Cassi Tilstra (12:56.1 in the 3,200) and Amanda Tilstra (6:02 in the 1,600) also won individual events for the girls.Amy Tiesler (4-6 in the high jump), Mann (13:29.36 in the 3,200), Roozenboom (18.67 in the 100 hurdles) and Rachel Kvaale (6:03 in the 1,600) placed second individually.Here is a look at the rest of H-BC-E-E’s Top-Six finishers from the Frisby Relays.H-BC-E-E boysThird place: Jackson, 3,200, 11:16.67; Sandbulte, 110 hurdles, 20.43; Scholten, 100, 11.9.Fourth place: Bush, high jump, 5-4; Kerry Fink, 1,600, 5:14.83.Fifth place: Schilling, discus, 89-9 1/2; D.DeBoer, 3,200, 12:25.16; Boyum, 100, 12.3; Derek Haak, 1,600, 5:19.41; Van Dyke, shot, 35-7.Sixth place: Jared Drenth, 3,200, 13:12.1.H-BC-E-E girlsThird place: 1,600 relay (Kvaale, Fink, Tyra Hinrichs and A.Tilstra), 4:45.53.Fourth place: C.Tilstra, high jump, 4-4; Erika Fransen, 3,200, 13:49.18.Fifth place: Tiesler, 100 hurdles, 19.98.Sixth place: Tiesler, long jump, 11-10; Kim Janssen, 100 hurdles, 20,42; Stacy Bush, 1,600, 6:42.

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