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Mid-day
competitors featured the team from Williamsville, who filed in, took
their seats and introduced themselves.
Shortly
thereafter Lincoln filed in and did the same. Each team consisted of
five players.
After the moderators set the ground rules, the ‘game was afoot.’
The questions came in a wide variety of subjects, math, the human
body, psychiatry, etc. Students left few questions unanswered.
The Illinois Academic Bowl features a total of 319 schools across
the state, divided into three classes - 1A, 2A, and 3A. The classes
group the schools together according to enrollment size. The 1A
class consists of all the smaller schools in the state. 2A schools
are those in the mid-range, and the 3A schools are the larger
enrollment schools in the state.
Lincoln participates in the mid-sized schools 2A class along with 65
other schools from across the state. All the Sectional competitions
are held on the same day with a number of schools hosting
competitions consisting of no more than 12 schools.
At Lincoln on Saturday, the following schools were in attendance:
Beardstown High School, Central Catholic High School (Bloomington),
Clinton High School, St. Teresa High School (Decatur), El
Paso-Gridley High School, LCHS, Maroa-Forsyth High School,
Fieldcrest High School (Minonk), Quincy Notre Dame High School,
Riverton High School, Olympia High School (Standford), and
Williamsville High School.
For those who missed the contests of mind and wit, it does not
compare to any other type of youth competition.
You will
not see - is a game winning catch in the ninth inning, you won't see
a buzzer beater to win the basketball game; what you will experience
is young men and women on the battle field of academia. This battle
is every bit as grueling as the gridiron or the battle that takes
place in the hockey rink.
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What you
will see is this - concentration, teamwork, and young adults
searching their brain data banks and firing an answer in a matter of
seconds.
What
mattered most was that 10 young men and women were passionately
fighting for every correct answer they could muster. Not every
answer was correct, but the response time to some of those questions
could make one dizzy.
After a day of fast paced Q & A, the school that came out on top was
Williamsville High School. Williamsville will go on to compete in
the State Finals on March 3rd.
The top four finishers in addition to Williamsville included:
Bloomington Central Catholic - 2nd place, Decatur St. Teresa - 3rd
place, and LCHS - 4th place.
The LDN tips its hat to the all the warriors that participated in
this great event.
[Mitch Douglas/LDN] |
