By John RittenhouseThe Hills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth-Edgerton teams opened postseason competition at the Sub-Section 10 Track and Field Championships in Slayton Thursday.The Patriot boys compiled 85 points and placed fifth in a seven-team field. H-BC-E-E’s girls placed sixth out of seven teams with 60 counters.H-BC-E-E will be represented well at today’s Section 3A meet in Redwood Falls. Ten boys and eight girls will compete.Seven Patriot boys earned automatic berths into section competition by placing third or better in Slayton. Three more boys will advance to the section meet as at-large qualifiers based on their performances compared with the results turned in by the athletes from the other three sub-sections that form Section 3A.Seven H-BC-E-E girls drew automatic invitations to the section meet. One more will compete after locking up at-large entry.The Patriot boys won a pair of sub-section event titles. Cody Scholten took top honors in the high jump after clearing 6-0. The 1,600-meter relay team of Jan Sommerling, John Sandbulte, Kale Wiertzema and Tyler Bush placed first with a time of 3:30.92.H-BC-E-E’s 400- and 800-meter relays qualified for the section event by placing second and third with respective 45.46 and 1:37.47 times. Sommerlng, Scholten, Wiertzema and Bush ran the 400. Sommerling, Scholten, Cody Schilling and Bush teamed up in the 800.Wiertzema (second in the 400 in 52.15), Bush (second in the 800 in 1:58.74), Schilling (second in the triple jump with a distance of 38-7 1/2) and Derek Haak (third in the 800 in 2:10.47) also locked up automatic berths in the section field.Casey Van Midden Dorp and the 3,200-meter relay team consisting of Haak, Sandbulte, Tyler Paulsen and Brent Kramer earned at-large entries into section competition. Van Midden Dorp placed sixth in the 100-meter dash in 11.9. The relay finished fifth in 9:18.22.The Patriot girls placed second in three events at the sub-section meet.Rosie Lewis, who tossed the shot 33-1 to place third, produced a distance of 98-0 to finish second in the discus.Cassi Tilstra finished second in the 400-meter dash in 1:00.2 and ran a leg with the second-place finishing 1,600-meter relay, which recorded a time of 4:14.12. Amanda Tilstra, Jocelyn Bucher and Mya Mann round out the 1,600-meter team.The 400- and 3,200-meter relays locked up automatic trips to Redwood Falls by placing third with respective 53.68 and 10:11.08 efforts. Kelly Mulder, Mann, Amanda Connors and Lewis teamed up in the 400. Cassi and Amanda Tilstra, Ashley Bucher and Mann joined forces in the 3,200.Amanda DeBoer and the 800-meter relay team of Connors, Lewis, Mulder and Jocelyn Bucher earned at-large entries to the section meet. DeBoer placed fourth in the 1,600-meter run with a time of 5:58.79. The relay placed fifth in 1:57.03.Here is a look at the team standings and the rest of H-BC-E-E’s point-producing performances during the sub-section meet.Boys standings: Luverne 142, Fulda 127.5, Southwest Christian 113, Murray County Central 86, H-BC-E-E 85, Pipestone 79, Adrian 54.5Girls standings: Pipestone 183, Luverne 122.5, MCC 108, SWC 86, Fulda 76.5, H-BC-E-E 60, Adrian 57.H-BC-E-E boysFifth place: Dustin Verhey, 3,200, 11:12.47.Sixth place: Roger DeBoer, long jump, 18-6 1/2.Seventh place: Van Midden Dorp, long jump, 18-5 1/2; DeBoer, 110 hurdles, 18.51; Paulsen, 3,200, 11:31.38.Eighth place: DeBoer, 100, 12.13.H-BC-E-E girlsSeventh place: J.Bucher, 800, 2:40.37; A.Bucher, 400, 1:06.44; Kari Roozenboom, 100 hurdles, 18.09.Eighth place: Connors, 400, 1:06.46; Rayna Sandoval, 3,200, 13:32.06; Connors, long jump, 14-9.