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Patriots, Adrian runners win eight RRC meet titles in Slayton

By John RittenhouseThe Hills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth-Edgerton and Adrian teams made an appearance at the 2006 Red Rock Conference Track and Field Championships in Slayton Thursday.The area teams combined efforts to win eight meet championships and place second in 11 events.In team competition, the Patriot boys placed fourth and the Adrian boys seventh in an eight-team field.Adrian’s girls finished sixth and the H-BC-E-E girls capped an eight-team field.The win by the 400-meter relay team led the Patriot boys to their fourth-place performance as a team.Kevin Vander Schaff, Cody Rozeboom, Casey Van Midden Dorp and Kerry Fink claimed the title with a time of 45.76.Vander Schaff and Fink placed second in the 100- and 400-meter dashes with respective 11.68 and 52.4 times.H-BC-E-E’s boys placed second in the 800- and 1,600-meter relays in 1:36.35 and 3:37.58.Pawel Matjeski, Rozeboom, John Sandbulte and Vander Schaff teamed up in the 800. Matjeski, Rozeboom, Sandbulte and Fink joined forces in the 1,600.The Adrian boys registered one meet title and placed second in three events.Blake Springman, who finished second with a toss of 44-1 in the shot put, won the discus with a distance of 126-5.Lee Stover and Ethan Wieneke placed second in the 800- and 1,600-meter runs with 2:04.93 and 10:36.91 times.Adrian’s girls set one school record, landed four meet titles and placed second in two events in Slayton.The 3,200-meter relay consisting of Kourtney Kramer, Megan Henning, Leslie Stover and Erica Thier established an AHS school record with the winning time of 9:49.75.Kramer, Jolene Reisdorfer, Stover and Thier also won the 1,600-meter relay in 4:13.51.Kramer and Stover took top honors in the 800- and 1,600-meter runs with times of 2:29.29 and 5:34.3.Thier placed second in the 400-meter dash with a time of 1:01.68, and the 400-meter relay consisting of Rosibel Mejia, Emily Thier, Katy Slater and Reisdorfer finished second in 53.63.The Patriot girls won two events and placed second in two events at the RRC meet.Mya Mann captured meet titles with a time of 1:01.8 in the 400-meter dash and a distance of 15-8 in the long jump.H-BC-E-E finished second in the 1,600- and 3,200-meter relays in 4:17.2 and 10:03.02.Ashley and Jocelyn Bucher, Amanda Tilstra and Mann formed both relays.Here are the team standings and the look at the rest of the point-earning efforts turned in by H-BC-E-E and Adrian athletes during the meet.Boys’ standings: Southwest Christian 145, Murray County Central 138, Fulda 100, H-BC-E-E 81, Southwest United 79, Mountain Lake-Butterfield-Odin 67, Adrian 63, Westbrook-Walnut Grove-Red Rock Central 26.Girls’ standings: SWU 127, MCC 106, W-WG-RRC 87, SWC 84, ML-B-O 78.5, Adrian 77.5, Fulda 74.5, H-BC-E-E 66.5.H-BC-E-E boysFourth place: Cody Schilling, high jump, 5-6; 3,200 relay (Tyler Paulsen, Brent Kramer, Halden Van Wyhe, Sandbulte), 8:51.65.Fifth place: Roger DeBoer, 110 hurdles, 18.59.Sixth place: Schilling, triple jump, 38-3; Van Wyhe, high jump, 5-4; Fink, long jump, 18-8; Matjeski, 300 hurdles, 45.61; Dustin Verhey, 3,200, 10:56.Adrian boysThird place: 1,600 relay (Jarod Boltjes, Derek Everett, Billy Anderson and Stover), 3:40.11.Fourth place: Jon Konz, 300 hurdles, 45.19.Fifth place: Anderson, 200, 23.9; 3,200 relay (Boltjes, Nate Reyne, Wieneke and Dustin Lonneman), 9:03.09.Sixth place: Stover, 1,600, 4:48.57; 400 relay (Konz, Trent Lutmer, Chris Reisdorfer and Everett), 49.43.Adrian girlsThird place: Hailee Heitkamp, 1,600, 5:45.1.Fourth place: Heitkamp, 3,200, 12:39.36.Fifth place: Reisdorfer, 200, 28.1.H-BC-E-E girlsThird place: Rosie Lewis, shot, 34-1.Fourth place: 400 relay (Santana Wysong, Taylor Vaughn, Amanda Connors and Lewis), 54.95.Fifth place: Wysong, high jump, 4-4; 800 relay (Connors, A.Bucher, Lewis and Heather Esselink), 1:56.41.Sixth place: Rayna Sandoval, 1,600, 5:55.1; J.Bucher, 300 hurdles, 53.2

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