The Onekama Portager Quiz Bowl Team Wins First Place March 6, 1998

QUIZ BOWL 1998

Quiz Bowl is an academic competion held between two teams. This is a double elimination tournament with competition being held on two different day. Questions are worth 10 points and bonus questions are worth 20 points.

The area class D schools who compete are Mason County Eastern, Brethren, Baldwin, Walkerville, FreeSoil, Manistee Catholic, Pentwater and Onekama.

The Onekama Quiz Bowl Team competed at the West Shore Community College competition on February 27. On the first day of competition, the Portagers faced 3 teams. The first team they faced was Baldwin. The Portagers won their match by a score of 130-20. Their next competitor was Brethren who they beat by a score of 130-75. In the afternoon, they faced Pentwater who were the defending champions from last year. This was a very tough match and the Portagers were able to pull it out by a close score of 125-120.

This win made the Portagers the only undefeated team of the contest. They would then face the last team to win out of the loosing bracket.

On March 5, the last day of competition, they ended up with a rematch against Pentwater. They were able to defeat this team a second time by a score of 145-45.

Members of the Quiz Bowl Team are seniors: Rick VanIttersum, Roxane Hudson, Scott O'Herron and Reggie Gebo; juniors: Luke Goodrich and Shawn Allen; Sophomores: Zane Story, Dan Bowman, Luke Balmer, Josh Savory, Toria Miller, Amy Wolfe, Angela Deising and Jennifer Werts; freshman: Nathan Harju, Ed Bradford and Adam Hudson. Their advisor is Debra French.

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The team plans to advance to state competition that will be held at St. Clair Community College on April 24 & 25. Our Trip to State

Roxane H., Scott O., Rick V., Luke G

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