By John RittenhouseThe Hills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth-Edgerton track teams placed third in six-team fields at the Camden Conference meet staged in Tracy Friday.The Patriot boys compiled 116 points during the meet, finishing four points behind team champion Russell-Tyler-Ruthton (120) and two points behind runner up Dawson-Boyd-Lac qui Parle Valley (118).Canby-Minneota-Lincoln HI (145) won the girls’ team crown. R-T-R (115) and H-BC-E-E (105) placed second and third respectively.Considering the Patriots competed at the Red Rock Conference meet in Slayton the day before, placing third in team competition at the CC meet came as a nice surprise to Patriot coach Tom Goehle."We really were not trying to win the meet," Goehle said. "I was happy our kids ran so well coming off another conference meet the day before."The H-BC-E-E boys secured six conference championships and placed second in three events during the meet.Tyler Bush turned in a couple of record-setting performances for the Patriots.Bush ran a 4:33.58 while winning the 1,600-meter run. His time bettered the H-BC-E-E set by Brad Haak last season.Bush, Todd Alberty, Chris Reid and Kale Wiertzema won the 1,600-meter relay in 3:34.66, which also stands as a new cooperative program record.H-BC-E-E also won the 400-, 800- and 3,200-meter relays with respective 46.9, 1:39.96 and 9:01.45 times. Cody Scholten, Bush, Curt Schilling and Reid ran the 400. Alberty, Lee Jackson, Schilling and Brad Van Dyke teamed up in the 800. Jackson, Kerry Fink, Derek Haak and Alberty formed the 3,200-meter team.Reid, who placed second in the long jump with a distance of 18-1, won the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.18.Scholten cleared 5-8 to place second in the high jump, and Derek Haak placed second in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 11:31.9.The H-BC-E-E girls won four events and placed second four times at the CC meet.Cassi Tilstra set an H-BC school record by running 800 meters in 2:27.51 to win the event. Her time bettered the old H-BC mark of 2:27.6 set by Lisa Conger in 1987.Erin Boeve, who placed second in the 100-meter dash in 13.18, won an individual crown by crossing the finish line first in the 200-meter dash with a time of 27.6.The Patriots won the 400- and 3,200-meter relays with respective 55.87 and 10:29.98 efforts.Chelsea Fink, Rosie Lewis, Mya Mann and Kelly Mulder joined forces in the 400. Amanda and Cassi Tilstra, Mann and Rachel Kvaale won the 3,200.Cassi Tilstra, Amber Poppen, Mann and Boeve finished second in the 800-meter relay in 1:54.67.Poppen cleared 4-6 to place second in the high jump, and Ashley Bucher finished second in the 800 with a time of 2:39.08.Here is a look at the rest of H-BC-E-E’s Top-six finishers from the CC meet.H-BC-E-E boysThird place: Wiertzema, 800, 2:13.71.Fourth place: Schilling, shot, 44-2; Alberty, triple jump, 37-8; Wiertzema, 1,600, 5:06.46.Fifth place: Bush, 5-6, high jump; Adam Finke, 3,200, 13:14.Sixth place: Jackson, 400, 56.67; John Sandbulte, 300 hurdles, 50.29; Fink, 800, 2:20.13; Jared Drenth, 3,200, 13:28.H-BC-E-E girlsThird place: Poppen, long jump, 13-8 1/4.Fourth place: A.Tilstra, 400, 1:08.4; Jocelyn Bucher, 800, 2:42.85; Erika Fransen, 3,200, 13:29.03; 1,600 relay (A.Bucher, J.Bucher, Brittney Helgeson and Tyra Hinrichs), 4:40.26.Fifth place: C.Tilstra, high jump, 4-4; Kari Roozenboom, 100 hurdles, 18.79; Jill Weitgenant, 1,600, 6:05.19.Sixth place: Lewis, discus, 84-6; Mulder, shot, 27-9 1/2; Poppen, 200, 29.54; Kvaale, 3,200, 13:56.66.
