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Area teams gather in Pipestone

By John RittenhouseAll three track programs from the Star Herald coverage area met in Pipestone Tuesday for the annual running of the Arrow Relays.Luverne competed in the Class A portion of the meet, where it won 10 meet titles. No point totals were available, but the LHS boys won the team championship and the girls placed second.Adrian and Hills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth mixed it up in Class B, winning a combined 10 meet championships.The LHS boys won nine events, including four relay races, to help nail down the team title.Luverne won the sprint medley, 800-, 1,600- and 3,200-meter relays with respective 3:56.8, 45.5, 1:36.4, 3:35.7 and 8:41 efforts.Ryan Wynia, Jordan Siebenahler, Ruston Aaker and Tom Ward ran the medley. Chris Ashby, Ben Uphoff, Siebenahler and Jake Hendricks teamed up in the 400. Scott Goebel, Ward, Nick Otten and Hendricks combined efforts in the 1,600. Goebel, Ward, Aaker and Otten joined forces in the 3,200.Thomas Pinkal (4:49.6 in the 1,600 and 10:37 in the 3,200), Hendricks (51.1 in the 400), Otten (2:09.8 in the 800) and Mike Kunstle (11.1 in the 100) won individual titles for LHS.Luverne’s Ashby, Uphoff, Siebenahler and Hendricks finished second in the 400-meter relay with a time of 45.5. Uphoff placed second in the 300-meter hurdles in 43.9.Lexi Heitkamp established a new meet record by winning the 800-meter run with a time of 2:24.3 to lead the Cardinal girls.Luverne placed second in the 800-, 1,600- and 3,200- meter relays with respective 1:54.4, 4:21.6 and 10:30.4 times.Abby Elbers, Stephanie Hendricks, Brittany Mulder and Nicole Willers ran the 800. Victoria Arends, Amy Herman, Maggie Kuhlman and Heitkamp formed the 1,600-meter ream. Arends, Kayla Raddle, Kelsey Dooyema and Heitkamp competed in the 3,200.Raddle (12:10.5 in the 3,200) and Natalie Willers (101-2 in the discus) placed second individually.The Adrian teams won a combined six meet titles in Pipestone, including a five-victory effort from the girls.Erica Thier, Morgan Lynn and Leslie Stover took top honors in the 400-meter dash and 800- and 1,600-meter runs with respective 1:03.19, 2:27.87 and 5:51.34 times.The Dragons also won the 1,600- and 3,200-meter relays in 4:21.5 and 10:14.4.Reisdorfer, Lynn, Stover and Thier teamed up in the 1,600. Thier, Stover, Megan Henning and Lynn ran the 3,200,Casey Knips, who placed second with a toss of 131-3 in the discus, won the lone meet title for the AHS boys with a distance of 46-4 in the shot put.Adrian’s Billy Anderson and Lee Stover finished second in the 200-meter dash and 800-meter run with respective 24.21 and 4:57 times.Two titles each went to the H-BC-E-E boys and girls squads, which competed in the Class B version of the meet.The highlight of the meet from H-BC-E-E’s standpoint is the effort turned in by Mya Mann, Rosie Lewis, Cassi Tilstra and Kelly Mulder during the 400-meter relay. The foursome won the event with a meet record time of 53.9.The H-BC-E-E girls also won the medley relay with a time of 4:38. Amanda Connors, Ashley Bucher, Tilstra and Mann formed the team.Amanda Tilstra placed second in the 400-meter dash and Rayna Sandoval finished second in the 3,200-meter run with respective 1:05.39 and 13:02 efforts.The Patriots placed second in the 3,200-meter relay with a time of 10:14.9. Mann, Bucher, Cassi and Amanda Tilstra ran the race.H-BC-E-E’s boys won the 400- and 800-meter relays with respective 46.06 and 1:35.3 times. Jan Sommerling, Jon Klaassen, Cody Scholten and Tyler Bush teamed up in the 400. Sommerling, Darrin Weikamp, Scholten and Bush ran the 800.Scholten, Weikamp, Sommerling and Bush finished second in the medley relay with their 3:44.34 time.Roger DeBoer (18.21 in the 110 hurdles), Weikamp (55.8 in the 400) and John Sandbulte (46.12 in the 300 hurdles) placed second individually.Here is a look at the rest of H-BC-E-E’s, Luverne’s and Adrian’s individual efforts from the Arrow Relays.Luverne boysThird place: Matt Rosin, discus, 120-0; Rosin, shot, 43-0; Kunstle, triple jump, 38-10 1/2.Fourth place: Willers, shot, 42-0 1/2; Ashby, 200, 25.1; Uphoff, 110 hurdles, 18.54.Fifth place: Willers, discus, 116-4.Luverne girlsThird place: Arends, 300 hurdles, 50.1; medley relay (Morgan Bosshart, Nc.Willers, Hendricks, Katie Schneiderman), 4:54.5.Fourth place:Nt.Willers, shot, 31-8; Heitkamp, high jump, 4-8; Dooyema, 1,600, 6:14; Kuhlman, 100 hurdles, 17.6.Fifth place: Kuhlman, triple jump, 29-7; Herman, 400, 1:06.2; 400 relay (Hendricks, Elbers, Mulder and Nc.Willers), 56.1.Sixth place: LaRae Kor, shot, 28-2; Elbers, long jump, 13-8; Elbers, 100, 13.62; Mulder, 200, 29.1.Adrian girlsThird place: 400 relay (Emily Thier, Amanda Lynn, Katy Slater and Reisdorfer), 56.4; 800 relay (Em.Thier, A.Lynn, Sarah Jensen and Reisdorfer), 1:58.56.Fourth place: medley relay (Em.Thier, A.Lynn, Slater and Henning), 4:56.6.Fifth place: Jensen, 100 hurdles, 20.64; Jensen, 300 hurdles, 55.63.Sixth place: Slater, 100, 14.4.Adrian boysThird place: Blake Springman, discus, 115-3; Stover, 800, 2:10.61.Fourth place: Jon Konz, 300 hurdles, 48.47; 1,600 relay (Stover, Jesse Brake, Jordan Brake and Preston Engelkes), 3:51.26.Fifth place: Michael Powell, 110 hurdles, 22.63; Ethan Wieneke, 3,200, 11:30.69; 800 relay (Jr.Brake, Konz, Jory Haken and Anderson), 1:42.86; medley relay (Powell, Haken, Engelkes and Zach Sankey), 4:12.8.Sixth place: Springman, shot, 37-10; Engelkes, 400, 58.09; 400 relay (Jr.Brake, Trent Lutmer, Konz and Anderson), 49.79.H-BC-E-E girlsThird place: C.Tilstra, high jump, 4-6; Kari Roozenboom, 110 hurdles, 18.56.Fourth place: Jocelyn Bucher, 300 hurdles, 55.13; Sandoval, 800, 2:42.5; 1,600 relay (A.Tilstra, J.Bucher, Amanda Connors and A.Bucher), 4:31.42.Fifth place: A.Bucher, long jump, 13-2 1/4; 800 relay (Brittany Helgeson, Roozenboom, J.Bucher, Lewis), 2:01.3; Amanda DeBoer, 1,600, 6:07.9; Mulder, 200, 29.53.Sixth place: Connors, long jump, 13.1;Roozenboom, triple jump, 28-6; Lewis, discus, 87-1.H-BC-E-E boysThird place: Scholten, high jump, 5-10; Derek Haak, 1,600, 5:04.2.Fourth place: Sandbulte, triple jump, 36-2; Dustin Verhey, 3,200, 11:13; Haak, 800, 2:12.Fifth place: 3,200 relay (Tyler Paulsen, Brent Kramer, Cody Penning, Sandbulte), 9:24.21; 1,600 relay (Klaassen, Sandbulte, Cody Schilling, Haak), 3:53.11.Sixth place: Bush, triple jump, 35-1; Kenny Gardner, 200, 27.1.

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