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Adrian girls win team title at Arrow Relays

By John RittenhouseAll three track programs from the Star Herald coverage area traveled to Pipestone Tuesday for the annual Arrow Relays.Luverne, Adrian and Hills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth-Edgerton competed at the meet.The Luverne teams competed in the Class A field, where the boys placed second and the girls finished third in eight-team fields.The Adrian girls turned in an impressive performance during the Class B competition, winning the team title with 115 points. The AHS boys placed fourth in a nine-team field.H-BC-E-E’s boys placed third and the girls were fourth in the Class B division.The Cardinal boys won five meet titles during their appearance at the meet.Tim Rust won a pair of events, taking top honors in the 100- and 200-meter dashes with respective 11.24 and 23.24 times.Justin Van Wyhe, who placed second in the triple jump with a distance of 41-2, won the long jump with a 20-3 effort.Scott Goebel, who placed second in the 1,600-meter run with a time of 4:50.85, won the 800-meter run in 2:06.83.Luverne also received a meet title from the boys’ 1,600-meter relay team, which recorded a time of 3:40.32. Jake Hendricks, Andy Stegemann, Goebel and Nick Otten formed the team.The Cardinals placed second in the 400- and 3,200-meter relays with respective 46.1 and 8:59.8 times.Rust, Ben Cornish, Jordan Siebenahler and Van Wyhe ran the 400. Thomas Pinkal, Ruston Aaker, Stegemann and Otten teamed up in the 3,200.The LHS girls landed four meet titles during their appearance in Pipestone.Lexi Heitkamp had a big meet for the Cards, setting a meet record with the winning time of 2:25.35 in the 800-meter run before bettering her school record of 5:19.1 during a championship performance in the 1,600-meter run.Luverne’s Marissa Stewart, who placed second in the shot put with a distance of 33-6, won the discus with a toss of 99-7.The girls’ 1,600-meter relay team of Amanda Saum, Kayla Raddle, Kelsey Dooyema and Tera Boomgaarden won the event with a time of 10:40.6.Saum also placed second in the 3,200-meter run in 12:46.8.The Dragon girls won five events while capturing their team title.Sarah Kruger claimed two individual crowns by winning the 200- and 400-meter dashes with respective 27.12 and 1:01.35 times.Amanda Lynn won the triple jump with a distance of 30-1 1/2, and Morgan Lynn established a new school record by winning the 1,600-meter run with a time of 5:24.46. The old standard of 5:25.5 was set by Traci Scheidt in 1982.Adrian also fielded the winning medley relay, which turned in a 4:41.73 effort. Samantha Lynn, Emily Thier, McCall Heitkamp and Erica Thier formed the team.Heitkamp (12:49.9 in the 3,200-meter run), Leslie Stover (2:41.12 in the 800-meter run) and Ameila Mulder (93-6 in the discus) placed second individually for AHS.The girls’ 800- and 1,600-meter relays placed second with respective 1:54.14 and 4:23.41 times.Reisdorfer, Amanda Lynn, Sarah Jensen and Kruger ran the 800. Reisdorfer, Morgan and Amanda Lynn and Erica Thier teamed up in the 1,600.Adrian’s boys claimed four meet titles at the event.Kyle Knips emerged as a double-winner, taking top honors in the 200- and 400-meter dashes with respective 23.9 and 53.75 times.Casey Knips, who placed second in the shot put with a toss of 36-0, won the discus with a 132-0 effort.David Brake, who covered 38-0 to place second in the triple jump, won the high jump and bettered his school record in the event by clearing 6-1.Adrian’s Billy Anderson, Pete Jensen, Jory Haken and Kyle Knips placed second in the 800-meter relay with a time of 1:40.78.H-BC-E-E’s boys landed three meet titles during the course of the event.Tom LeBoutillier, who placed second in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 16.4, won the long jump by covering 19-9.The Patriots took top honors in the medley and 3,200-meter relays with respective 3:50.7 and 8:41.7 times.Lee Jackson, LeBoutillier, Kale Wiertzema and Tyler Bush ran the medley. Jackson, Wiertzema, Todd Alberty and Bush joined forces in the 3,200.H-BC-E-E’s Cody Scholten placed second in four individual events. He cleared 6-1 in the high jump, covered 19-1 in the long jump, ran 100 meters in 11.61 and dashed 200 meters in 24.14.The boys’ 1,600-meter relay of Alberty, Wiertzema, Jackson and Bush placed second with a time of 3:35.38.The H-BC-E-E girls won three relay races and set two meet standards during the competition.Meet records fell in the 400- and 3,200-meter relays as the Patriots produced the winning times of 53.77 and 10:10 in the events.Amanda Connors, Cassi Tilstra, Mya Mann and Kelly Mulder ran the 400. Jocelyn Bucher, Mann and Amanda and Cassi Tilstra formed the 3,200-meter team.Mann, Connors, Ashley Bucher and Cassi Tilstra took top honors in the 1,600-meter relay with a time of 4:17.4.Here is a look at the team standings and the rest of the individual efforts turned in by area athletes during the Arrow Relays.Class A boys: Redwood Valley 110, Luverne 102, Pipestone 80, Murray County Central 71, Worthington 60, Russell-Tyler-Ruthton 57, Westbrook-Walnut Grove-Red Rock Central 41, Tracy-Milroy-Balaton 37.Class A girls: T-M-B 119, Pipestone 108, Luverne 98.5, Worthington 63, W-WG-RRC 56, R-T-R 50, MCC 44.5, RWV 19.Class B girls: Adrian 115, Fulda 113, Southwest Christian 83, H-BC-E-E 73, Southwest United 61, Lincoln HI 38, Elkton (unavailable), Lakeview (unavailable).Class B boys: SWC 124, Fulda 113, H-BC-E-E 109, Adrian 95, Lakeview 43, Baltic 37, SWU 22, Elkton (unavailable), LH (unavailable).Luverne boysThird place: Pinkal, 3,200, 11:11.1. Hendricks, 400, 52.1;medley relay (Cornish, Siebenahler, Aaker and Otten), 3:51.83.Sixth place: Ben Uphoff, 300 hurdles, 46.7; Nick Van Wyhe, shot, 42-4 1/4.Luverne girlsThird place: 400 relay (Callen Bosshart, Amanda Dooyema, Cassie Pap and Nicole Willers), 54.56; 800 relay (Bosshart, A.Dooyema, Willers and Jenni Christensen), 1:54; 1,600 relay (Christensen, A.Dooyema, Victoria Arends and Heitkamp), 4:21.3; medley relay (Morgan Bosshart, Pap, Arends and Boomgarden), 4:46.1.Fourth place: C.Bosshart, 200, 28.1; Christensen, 400, 1:05.84.Fifth place: Heitkamp, high jump, 4-8; Maggie Kuhlman, 100 hurdles, 18.32; Kuhlman, 300 hurdles, 52.8.Sixth place: A.Dooyema, triple jump, 30-7.Adrian girlsThird place: Reisdorfer, long jump, 13-10 1/2; 400 relay (Em.Thier, A.Lynn, S.Lynn and Reisdorfer), 55.48.Fourth place: Jensen, 300 hurdles, 55.21.Sixth place: Em.Thier, 100, 14.0.Adrian boysThird place: Lee Stover, 800, 2:15.03; 400 relay (Chad Janssen, Jordan Brake, Haken and Anderson), 49.05; 3,200 relay (Stover, Jesse Brake, Paul Honermann and Jensen), 9:08.28.Fifth place: Anderson, 100, 11.9; Jr.Brake, 300 hurdles, 46.34.Sixth place: D.Brake, 110 hurdles, 20.68.H-BC-E-E boysThird place: Derek Haak, 3,200, 11:17.7; LeBoutillier, 300 hurdles, 43.98; Greg Van Batavia, 1,600, 5:07.64.Fourth place: John Sandbulte, triple jump, 37-3; 400 relay (Paul DeLeon, Devin DeBoer, Cody Rozeboom and Roger DeBoer), 49.9.Fifth place: Soren Trebesch, 400, 58.1; 800 relay (Sandbulte, Rozeboom, D.DeBoer and DeLeon), 1:45.4.Sixth place: Robert Baker, 800, 2:20.44.H-BC-E-E girlsThird place: A.Tilstra, triple jump, 29-2; Rayna Sandoval, 3,200, 13:14; A.Bucher, 1,600, 5:47.4; medley relay (Rosie Lewis, Mulder, J.Bucher and A.Tilstra), 4:45.76.Fourth place: Lewis, shot, 30-0; Lewis, discus, 91-3; Kari Roozenboom, 110 hurdles, 18.69.Fifth place: Roozenboom, triple jump, 28.5; 800 relay (Connors, Lewis, Brittany Helgeson and Mulder), 1:58.67.Sixth place: Mulder, long jump, 13-4; Roozenboom, 300 hurdles, 59.68; Brooke Kramer, 800, 2:54.56.

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