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AHS, H-BC-E-E compete at RRC meet

By John RittenhouseThe Adrian and Hills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth-Edgerton track squads completed the regular season by participating at the Red Rock Conference meet in Slayton Thursday.The AHS girls displayed dramatic improvement over the 2003 season, when the Dragons scored 17 points to cap a nine-team field.Adrian compiled 93 points and placed fourth in the standings in the 2004 version of the event.The H-BC-E-E girls capped a nine-team field with 52 points. The H-BC-E-E and Adrian boys placed fourth and fifth with respective 103 and 66 point totals in their nine-team field.The AHS girls won five event titles and established a new conference record on their way to a fourth-place finish as a team.McCall Heitkamp, Leslie Stover, Erica Thier and Morgan Lynn established a new conference record with their winning time of 10:08.33 in the 3,200-meter relay.Adrian’s Jolene Reisdorfer, Amanda Lynn, Emily Thier and Sarah Kruger took top honors in the 800-meter relay with a 1:52.07 effort.Kruger claimed a pair of RRC titles by winning the 200- and 400-meter dashes with respective 27.01 and 1:00.82 times.Morgan Lynn won the 800-meter run with a time of 5:26.98.Amanda Lynn and Erica Thier placed second in individual events. Lynn covered 31-5 1/2 in the triple jump. Thier ran 800 meters in 2:27.48.The H-BC-E-E girls produced one RRC title and placed second in three events.Cassi Tilstra, who ran 400 meters in 1:01.16 to place second, won the 800-meter run in 2:25.9.H-BC-E-E’s 1,600- and 3,200-meter relays placed second with respective 4:17.06 and 10:15.3 times.Mya Mann, Jocelyn and Ashley Bucher and Tilstra ran the 1,600. Amanda Tilstra, Mann and the Buchers teamed up in the 3,200.The H-BC-E-E boys used the strength of five RRC championships to place fourth in the boys’ field.Tyler Bush led the way by winning the 800- and 1,600-meter runs with respective 2:01.62 and 4:48.08 efforts.Todd Alberty, Cody Scholten and Tom LeBoutillier won one individual event each.Alberty covered 39-10 in the triple jump, Scholten cleared 6-0 in the high jump and LeBoutillier cleared the 110-meter hurdles in 16:06.H-BC-E-E’s 1,600-meter relay team placed second with a time of 3:33.18. Bush, Kale Wiertzema, Lee Jackson and Alberty formed the team.Casey Knips won a pair of throwing championships to lead the Adrian boys to their fifth-place showing as a team.Knips won the shot put and discus titles with respective 45-9 and 143-0 distances.Adrian’s Kyle Knips placed second in the 200- and 400-meter dashes with 23.96 and 53.23 efforts.Kyle Knips also ran with the 800-meter relay, which placed second in 1:39.58. Billy Anderson, Chad Janssen and Jordan Brake are the other members of the team.Here is a look at the final team standings and the rest of the top six performances turned in by Adrian and H-BC-E-E athletes during the RRC meet.Girls’ standings: Murray County Central 100.5, Fulda 99.5, Westbrook-Walnut Grove-Red Rock Central 95, Adrian 93, Mountain Lake-Butterfield-Odin 71, Southwest United 67.5, Southwest Christian 61.5, Comfrey-Springfield 61, H-BC-E-E 52.Boys’ standingsSWC 161.5, MCC 113.5, Fulda 110.5, H-BC-E-E 103, Adrian 66, ML-B-O 61, W-WG-RRC 38, SWU 25, C-S 23.5.Adrian girlsThird place: 400 relay (A.Lynn, Em.Thier, Samantha Lynn and Reisdorfer), 54.52.Fourth place: Kruger, high jump, 4-8.Fifth place: Ameila Mulder, discus, 95-2; 1,600 relay (Er.Thier, Sarah Jensen, M.Lynn and Reisdorfer), 4:22.18.Sixth place: Jensen, 300 hurdles, 54.89; Stover, 1,600, 6:02.18.H-BC-E-E girlsFifth place: A.Bucher, 800, 2:31.6; 400 relay (Amanda Connors, Rosie Lewis, Chelsi Fink and Kelly Mulder), 55.31.H-BC-E-E boysThird place: LeBoutillier, 300 hurdles, 42.67; LeBoutillier, long jump, 19-7; LeBoutillier, discus, 123-3; 3,200 relay (Alberty, Wiertzema, Jackson and Derek Haak), 8:43.69.Fourth place: Curt Schilling, shot, 42-2; Alberty, 400, 54.08.Sixth place: 400 relay (Paul DeLeoncepeda, Cody Rozeboom, Javier Cisneros and Roger DeBoer), 49.57; 800 relay (John Sandbulte, Soeren Trebesch, Devin DeBoer and R.DeBoer), 1:43.8.Adrian boysFourth place: David Brake, triple jump, 38-6 3/4; D.Brake, high jump, 5-10.Fifth place: 1,600 relay (Paul Honermann, Justin Reisdorfer, Janssen and Lee Stover), 3:49.54.Sixth place: Stover, 800, 2:07.92; 400 relay ( J.Brake, Janssen, Jory Haken and Anderson), 49.59; 3,200 relay (Stover, Jesse Brake, Honermann and Reisdorfer), 9:13.38.

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