By John RittenhouseFive members of the Hills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth/Edgerton boys’ track team extended their seasons during the Section 3A Track and Field Championships staged in Luverne Thursday.The Patriot boys earned the right to compete in three events during this weekend’s Minnesota State Class A Track and Field Championships that will be staged at the National Sports Center in Blaine based on their performances during the section event.The top two individual finishers in every event, the winning relay teams and any individual or relay team that meets the state qualifying standards that are in place for the section meet qualify for the state classic.H-BC-E-E’s five boys won a combined three section championships to earn their trips to Blaine.Junior Tyler Bush will be a busy athlete this weekend. Bush won an individual title and ran legs for a pair of section champion relay teams.Bush’s individual title came in the 800-meter run, an event he placed fifth in during last year’s state meet.Bush won the section championship for the second straight year with a time of 1:58.43 Thursday.The boys’ 3,200-meter relay team won a section championship for the third consecutive season.Todd Alberty, Kale Wiertzema, Derek Haak and Bush produced a time of 8:18.96 to win the race handily.The Patriots also took top honors in the 1,600-meter relay with an H-BC-E-E program record time of 3:31.58.Alberty, Wiertzema, Lee Jackson and Bush formed the team.The H-BC-E-E boys will compete at the state meet Friday and Saturday.Bush will run in the second heat of Friday’s preliminaries in the 800 at 5:22 p.m. The 800 finals will be at 2:27 p.m. Saturday. The 1,600-meter relay may have to make an appearance in the preliminaries at 6:38 p.m. The 1,600-meter relay finals are at 3:23 p.m. Saturday. The 3,200-meter relay is an all-finals event that will be staged at 9:58 a.m. Saturday.The Patriot boys placed eighth in the team competition at the section meet with 40.5 points.Tom LeBoutillier and Cody Scholten registered performances in the top eight without advancing to the state meet for the Patriot boys.LeBoutillier covered 19-5 1/2 to place fifth in the long jump and finished seventh in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 16.41.Scholten cleared 6-1 to place fourth in the high jump.The 2004 season came to an end for the H-BC-E-E girls, who scored 14 points to place 14th as a team in Luverne Thursday.The Patriots did place in the top eight in three events during the meet without qualifying for the state classic.H-BC-E-E’s best effort came during the 3,200-meter relay, when Mya Mann, Ashley and Jocelyn Bucher and Cassi Tilstra established a new H-BC school record with a time of 9:55.44.The Patriots placed third in the event, missing the state qualifying standard by 3.16 seconds.Tilstra shaved some time off her H-BC school record in the 800-meter run by placing fifth with a 2:23.9 performance.The girls’ 1,600-meter relay established a new H-BC-E-E program record by placing fifth with a time of 4:12.41.Mann, Ashley Bucher, Amanda and Cassi Tilstra formed the team.