By John RittenhouseThe Hills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth-Edgerton track teams made an appearance at the Central Lyon Relays in Rock Rapids, Iowa, Tuesday.No point totals from the event were available Tuesday night, but the Patriot boys placed second in a five-team field and the girls finished fourth out of six teams."We ran awesome," said Patriot coach Tom Goehle. "I thought we had a number of good, if not great performances. They came in the field events and running events, and they came from our girls and boys. We seemed to excel in one event after another."The H-BC-E-E boys won three individual and two relay titles during the meet.Chris Reid won the 100-meter dash in 11.57, Lee Jackson took top honors in the 1,600-meter run with a time of 5:02.31 and Tyler Bush secured the 3,200-meter run title with a time of 10:27.The boys’ medley and 1,600-meter relays posted the winning times of 3:51.26 and 3:39.48. Zach Boyum, Brad Van Dyke and Todd Alberty and Bush teamed up in the medley. Alberty, Jackson, Kale Wiertzema and Bush joined forces in the 1,600.Placing second individually for H-BC-E-E are Cody Scholten (6-0 in the high jump), Reid (23.47 in the 200), Wiertzema (5:08.73 in the 1,600) and Kerry Fink (2:22.36 in the 800).The boys’ 400- and 800-meter relays placed second with respective 48.13 and 1:40.52 times. Boyum, Scholten, Jackson and Van Dyke ran the 400. Boyum, Scholten, Van Dyke and Alberty ran the 800.H-BC-E-E girls won a pair of relays and one individual title at the meet.Erin Boeve, who was second in the long jump with a distance of 14-5, won the 100-meter dash in 13.65.Boeve also was a member of the sprint-medley relay team that captured a meet title with a time of 2:00.16. Amber Poppen, Rosie Lewis and Cassi Tilstra are the other team members.Mya Mann, Amanda Tilstra, Rachel Kvaale and Cassi Tilstra teamed up to win the 3,200-meter relay with a time of 10:22.98.Here is a look at the rest of H-BC-E-E’s Top-six finishers at the Central Lyon Relays.H-BC-E-E boysThird place: Roger DeBoer, 110 hurdles, 19.97; Devin DeBoer, 400, 58.76.Fourth place: Curt Schilling, shot, 30-1; Van Dyke, long jump, 16-1; 3,200 relay (Fink, Dylan Kvaale, D.DeBoer and John Sandbulte), 9:46; Sandbulte, 400 hurdles, 1:09.7.Fifth place: Sandbulte, long jump, 16-0 1/2; Derek Haak, 3,200, 11:48; Scholten, 100, 12.15; Haak, 800, 2:23.29.H-BC-E-E girlsThird place: Mann, 800, 2:38.2; shuttle-hurdle relay (Kim Janssen, Amy Tiesler, A.Tilstra and Kari Roozenboom), 1:20.97; 800 relay (Roozenboom, Chelsea Fink, Lewis and Kelly Mulder), 2:03.87.Fourth place: Erika Fransen, 1,500, 6:10.35; 400 relay (Poppen, Mulder, C.Tilstra and Boeve), 54.96; distance-medley relay (Poppen, Mulder, Lewis and Fransen), 5:13.49.Fifth place: Kvaale, 400, 1:09.28.
