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Track athletes win six events in Pipestone Tuesday

By John RittenhouseThe Hills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth-Edgerton track teams made an appearance at the Arrow Relays in Pipestone Tuesday.Competing in the Class B field, the H-BC-E-E boys placed third in the team standings with 108 points. The Patriot girls finished fifth with 92 points.The H-BC-E boys won four meet titles and placed second in three events at the meet.Roger DeBoer and John Sandbulte took top honors in the 110- and 300-meter hurdles with times of 18.71 and 1:00.16.The 400- and 800-meter relays placed first with 46.86 and 1:38.4 efforts.Kevin Vander Schaff, Pawel Matejski, Casey Van Midden Dorp and Kerry Fink ran the 400. Vander Schaff, Cody Schilling, Cody Rozeboom and Fink teamed up in the 800.Matejski finished second in the 400 with a time of 55.37, and the 1,600- and 3,200-meter relays placed second with times of 3:41.87 and 9:19.1.Schilling, Rozeboom, Vander Schaff and Fink formed the 1,600-meter team. Tyler Paulsen, Brent Kramer, Sandbulte and Van Wyhe ran the 3,200.The Patriot girls won two events and placed second in two events.Rosie Lewis and Mya Mann won the shot put and long jump crowns with 34-7 and 15-1 distances.Amanda Tilstra placed second in the 800 with a time of 2:36.3, and she joined forces with Amanda Connors, Mann and Ashley Bucher to finish second in the 1,600-meter relay in 4:24.88.The Patriots run at Southwest United’s Wildcat Relays in Worthington today, at the Howard Wood Relays in Sioux Falls Friday and Saturday, and at the Section True Team Meet in Slayton Monday.Here is a look at the team standings and the rest of H-BC-E-E’s top performances during the Arrow Relays.Class B boys’ standings: Fulda 129, Southwest Christian 114.5, H-BC-E-E 108, Adrian 93, Southwest United 68, Baltic 54.5, Lincoln HI 44.Class B girls’ standings: SWU 138, SWC 129, Fulda 99.5, Adrian 95, H-BC-E-E 92, Baltic 48, LH 45.5.H-BC-E-E boysThird place: Schilling, high jump, 5-6; Schilling, triple jump, 39-4; Aaron Esselink, shot, 40-0; Van Midden Dorp, long jump, 18-10.Fourth place: Dustin Verhey, 3,200, 11:08.16.Sixth place: Fink, long jump, 18-8.H-BC-E-E girlsThird place: Mann, 1,600, 5:54.1.Fourth place: A.Bucher, long jump, 14-1; Tilstra, triple jump, 30-2; Santana Wysong, 100, 15-2; Lewis, 200, 30.59; 800 relay (Jocelyn Bucher, Connors, Lewis and Andrea DeBoer), 1:59.32.Fifth place: Connors, triple jump, 29-10; DeBoer, 400, 1:12.04; Rayna Sandoval, 3,200, 13:35; 400 relay (Wysong, Taylor Vaughn, Jayme Plimpton and Whitney Wilgenburg), 57.52; 3,200 relay (Heather Esselink, Heather Kerner, J.Bucher, A.Bucher), 11:15.95.Sixth place: Kari Roozenboom, 100 hurdles, 21.1.

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