By John Rittenhouse
Some members of the Hills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth track program spent parts of their Tuesday rewriting the record book at the Arrow Relays in Pipestone.
H-BC-E team members set three new meet standards and tied another one during the course of the meet.
To make the outing even more impressive, the Patriot girls captured the team title in an eight-squad field in the Class B portion of the meet.
The Patriot boys finished third overall, but they were only six points away from securing a team championship.
"It was a great meet for us," said Patriot coach Tom Goehle. "The kids ran exceptionally well all the way across the board."
A pair of relay teams came up big for the Patriot girls.
The 3,200-meter squad of Brittney Olson, Shanna and Cassi Tilstra and Bev Wurpts set a meet record with their winning time of 10:25.51.
Not to be outdone, the medley team of Erin Boeve, Shanna Tilstra, Janelle Jenniges and Wurpts set a meet record with their winning effort of 4:35.7.
Brad Haak, who placed second in the high jump by clearing 5-6, established a meet record for the Patriot boys by running 800 meters in 2:00.3.
Patriot Chris Fransman tied a meet standard when he cleared 6-3 to win the high jump.
The H-BC-E girls also fielded the winning 1,600-meter relay team of the Tilstras, Boeve and Jenniges. They turned in a time of 4:23.24.
Jenniges also ran her way to a meet title in the 1,600-meter run with a time of 5:56.9.
The Tilstras, Boeve and Sarah Rozeboom all placed second in individual events for H-BC-E.
Shanna Tilstra cleared 4-6 in the high jump, Cassi Tilstra ran 400 meters in 1:03.99, Rozeboom cleared the 300-meter hurdles in 59.03 and Boeve ran 100 meters in 13.35.
Chris Willers and Chris Reid also produced sprinting wins for the H-BC-E boys. Willers won the 400 in 52.09. Reid won the 200 in 23.89.
H-BC-E fielded the winning 1,600- and 3,200-meter relay teams, which recorded respective 3:39.74 and 8:48.26 times.
Reid, Fransman, Willers and Lee Jackson teamed up in the 1,600. Tyler Bush, Matt Buck, Jackson and Haak ran the 3,200.
The Patriots will compete at the Howard Wood Relays in Sioux Falls tomorrow and Saturday.
Here is a look at the team standings and the rest of H-BC-EÕs top six finishers from the Arrow Relays.
Class B girls: H-BC-E 105, Fulda 89, Edgerton 73, Elkton 70, Baltic 64, Adrian 62, Southwest Christian 52 and Lincoln HI 49.
Class B boys: SWC 113.5, Fulda 112, H-BC-E 108, Adrian 75. Baltic 58.5, Elkton 42, Edgerton 37, LH 34.
H-BC-E girls
Third place: Connie Lewis, triple jump, 31-0 1/2; Rozeboom, 100 hurdles, 20.05; Olson, 800, 2:42.93; 400 relay (LaDonna Sandstede, Melinda Feucht, Olson and Lewis), 56.28.
Fourth place: Sandstede, 200, 29.7; Brittney Rozeboom, 3,200, 14:12.
Sixth place: Boeve, long jump, 13-9.
H-BC-E boys
Third place: Reid, long jump, 19-3 1/2; 800 relay (Reid, Fransman, Bush and Jackson), 1:39.45; 400 relay (Reid, Fransman, Willers and Jackson), 48.07.
Fourth place: Nathan Fick, 3,200, 12:35.
Fifth place: Walraven,100, 12.34; Greg Van Batavia, 1,600, 5:18.17; Buck, 300 hurdles, 48.09.
Sixth place: Buck, triple jump, 35-5; Walraven, 110 hurdles, 21.06.