By John RittenhouseHills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth-Edgerton athletes established records during the Red Rock Conference Track and Field Championships in Slayton Tuesday.Senior Cassi Tilstra set a new school standard for the girls in the 400-meter dash. The boys 800-meter relay team of Jan Sommerling, Kale Wiertzema, Tyler Bush and John Sandbulte posted a new meet record.Tilstra covered 400 meters in 59.32, winning the event and besting Nancy Hume’s old school record of 1:00.1, which was established in 1980.The 800-meter relay won a conference title and set a new meet record with a time of 1:34.33.The record-setting efforts proved to be the highlights of the meet for the H-BC-E-E teams, which finished fourth in their respective fields.H-BC-E-E’s girls won the 800- and 1,600-meter relays with respective 1:51.69 and 4:13.12 efforts. Amanda Connors, Mya Mann, Rosie Lewis and Tilstra ran the 800. Amanda and Cassi Tilstra, Mann and Jocelyn Bucher joined forces in the 1,600.Lewis, Connors, Kelly Mulder and Ashley Bucher placed second in 54.57 for the Patriot girls.The win produced by the 800-meter relay proved to be the lone RRC title captured by the H-BC-E-E boys.Sommerling (23.85 in the 200), Bush (1:58.28), Wiertzema (51.95 in the 400) and Cody Scholten (6-0 in the high jump) placed second individually.The 400-meter relay team of Scholten, Wiertzema, Jon Klaassen and Bush placed second in 46.46.Here is a look at the rest of H-BC-E-E’s individual efforts and the team standings from the RRC meet.Boys standings: Fulda 147, Southwest Christian 137.5, Murray County Central 107.5, H-BC-E-E 77, Mountain Lake-Butterfield-Odin 63, Adrian 54, Southwest United 41, Comfrey-Springfield 37, Westbrook-Walnut Grove-Red Rock Central 37.Girls standings: MCC 117.5, SWC 98.5, SWU 93, H-BC-E-E 86.5, Adrian 81, Fulda 67, W-WG-RRC 65, ML-B-O 61.5, C-S 39.5.H-BC-E-E girlsThird place: Lewis, discus, 105-5; Kari Roozenboom, 100 hurdles, 18.38.Fourth place: C.Tilstra and Cassie Duncan cleared 4-6 to share fourth place in the high jump; Mann, long jump, 15-0; Mann, 800, 2:29.3.Fifth place: 3,200 relay (Ashley and Jocelyn Bucher, Rayna Sandoval and Amanda DeBoer), 10:48.5.Sixth place: Mulder, long jump, 14-8; Lewis, shot, 32-2.H-BC-E-E boysFourth place: Scholten, 100, 12.08.Fifth place: Cody Schilling, triple jump, 36-7.Sixth place: Sommerling, 400, 54.12; Scholten, 200, 24.67; 1,600 relay (Sandbulte, Klaassen, Schilling and Derek Haak), 3:50.8.
