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H-BC-E-E boys place third at Iowa event

By John RittenhouseThe Hills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth-Edgerton track teams helped form six-team fields at the West Lyon Invitational near Inwood, Iowa, Tuesday.The Patriot boys scored 58 points to place third in the team standings. The H-BC-E-E girls placed fifth with 49 counters. West Lyon won both team titles.H-BC-E-E’s boys recorded four meet championships, and seniors Cody Scholten and Tyler Bush helped claim three of them.Scholten cleared 5-10 to win the high jump, and Bush won the 3,200-meter run with a time of 11:00. Bush and Scholten also ran with the winning medley relay team, which registered a time of 3:56.7. Casey Van Midden Dorp and Jon Klaassen are other members of the team.H-BC-E-E’s John Sandbulte also won an event title by placing first in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:02.3.Bush and Derek Haak placed second in individual events. Bush ran the 400-meter dash in 52.5. Haak covered 1,600 meters in 5:10.Senior Cassi Tilstra won an individual event and ran legs with a pair of championship relay teams in Iowa.Tilstra took top honors in the 400 with a time of 1:01.23. She teamed up with Amanda Tilstra, Jocelyn Bucher and Mya Mann to win the 3,200-meter relay in 10:39 and joined efforts with Amanda Tilstra, Mann and Ashley Bucher to win the 1,600-meter relay in 4:23.Mann placed second in the 800 with a time of 2:41.The sprint-medley relay team of Amanda Connors, Kelly Mulder, Ashley and Jocelyn Bucher placed second in 2:04.5.Here is a look at the rest of H-BC-E-E’s top efforts from the WL Invitational.H-BC-E-E boysThird place: 800 relay (Jan Sommerling, Scholten, Klaassen and Cody Schilling), 1:39.3; 1,600 relay (Sommerling, Haak, Scholten and Sandbulte), 3:53.3.Fourth place: Sommerling, 200, 23.56; 400 relay (Kenny Gardner, Roger DeBoer, Klaassen and Van Midden Dorp), 50.9.Fifth place: Dustin Verhey, 3,200, 11:44; DeBoer, 110 hurdles, 18.31.Sixth place: Tyler Paulson, 1,600, 5:19.H-BC-E girlsThird place: Amanda DeBoer, 3,000, 13:08; distance-medley relay (Brittany Helgeson, Rosie Lewis, Connors and A.Bucher), 4:56.6.Fourth place: 800 relay (Lewis, J.Bucher, Connors and Mulder), 1:59.9; 400 relay (Kari Roozenboom, Lewis, Helgeson and Mulder), 57.6.Fifth place: Lewis, discus, 89-10.

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