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Patriots stretch legs during West Lyon Relays

By John RittenhouseThe Hills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth-Edgerton girls’ track team secured a meet championship during an event in Iowa Tuesday.With West Lyon’s track under repair, the meet was staged in Hull, Iowa.The strange venue didn’t seem to bother the girls’ 1,600-meter relay team, which recorded the winning time of 4:23.35 during the meet.Ashley and Jocelyn Bucher, Mya Mann and Amanda Tilstra formed the winning team.Mann, Tilstra, Rosie Lewis and Amanda Connors placed second in the distance-medley relay with a 4:34.6 effort.The Patriot boys placed second in five events during the meet.Kerry Fink led the way by placing second in the 200- and 400-meter dashes with respective 23.78 and 53.19 times.John Sandbulte cleared the 400-meter hurdles in 51.56 to place second, and Dustin Verhey finished second in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 11:12.3.H-BC-E-E’s 400-meter weightmen’s relay team consisting of Kale Leuthold, Nathan Tinklenberg, Travis Christians and Shane Kooiman placed second in 54.42.Here is a look at the rest of H-BC-E-E’s top-six finishers during Tuesday’s meet.H-BC-E-E girlsThird place: Mann, 200, 27.9; 400 relay (Connors, Tilstra, Rayna Sandoval and Lewis), 57.55.Fourth place: Lewis, discus, 85-11; Cassie Duncan, high jump, 4-6; Mann, long jump, 14-3; 3,200 relay (Sandoval, Heather Esselink, Ashley and Jocelyn Bucher), 11:13.8.Fifth place: 800 relay (Kari Roozenboom, Esselink, Ashley and Jocelyn Bucher), 2:01.4; sprint-medley relay (Roozenboom, Esselink, Connors and Sandoval), 2:08.9.Sixth place: Connors, long jump, 13-7.H-BC-E-E boysThird place: Kevin Vander Schaff, 200, 23.81.Fourth place: 3,200 relay (Brent Kramer, Terrence Reid, Joel Van Batavia and Sandbulte), 9:30.2; 800 relay (Adam Finke, Cody Rozeboom, Cody Schilling and Vander Schaff), 1:39; 1,600 relay (Rozeboom, Tyler Paulsen, Sandbulte, Fink), 3:45.6.Fifth place: Cody Penning, 3,200, 12.06.5; Paulsen, 1,600, 4:58.6; distance-medley relay (Rozeboom, Schilling, Jon Klaassen and Finke), 4:01.9; 400 relay (Roger DeBoer, Pawel Matejski, Klaassen and Vander Schaff), 48.4; Kramer, 800, 2:17.3; Matejski, 400 hurdles, 1:04.1.Sixth place: Fink, long jump, 18-4.

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