(not speaking for any organization or other individual besides myself) St. Clair County Community College in Port Huron for the 13th consecutive year hosted the Michigan state High School Quiz Bowl championships, a double-elimination tournament held over two days, April 28-29. Games in this format are 30 minutes long, 15 minute halves, 3 minute halftime, 15 points for correct tossup response, -5 for any incorrect tossup response, 10 points for correct bonus response. Below are the top finishers in each class, followed by the scores of the final games in each classification. Class A -- Champions: Utica Eisenhower Runners-up: Detroit Catholic Central 3rd place: Grosse Pointe South 4th place: Livonia Churchill 5th place: Hartland / Plymouth Canton 7th place: Grand Ledge / Owosso In round 3 on Friday of the winner's bracket, Canton scored a big upset rout over Eisenhower 580-305, forcing Eisenhower to win seven consecutive games Saturday afternoon to take the crown. In the first "final" game, Eisenhower came back from a 350-270 deficit to defeat CC 655-555, and in the final "final", Eisenhower ran away with things in the 2nd half and took the crown by the winning score of 735-500. Consider Coach Tharp's team's dominance: Beat Grand Ledge 825-140 Beat Livonia Churchill 540-285 Lost to Canton 580-305 Beat Fraser 635-165 Beat Grand Ledge 765-215 Beat Hartland 820-320 Beat Churchill 565-475 Beat Grosse Pointe South 890-310 Beat DCC twice (aforementioned) One loss, two wins by ~100 points, two wins by ~250 points, and five wins by 470 points or more. Consider that 19 out of the 25 teams participating in the Class A field didn't even SCORE in a single GAME as many as 470 points. This Eisenhower team (all juniors, with a full year left to wreak havoc on their opponents) seems to have the occasional tendency to play "poorly" (relative to their own high standards)--witness the Canton loss. The other 9 out of 10 times, Ike's on top of their game, and they're virtually unstoppable. It shall be interesting to observe the results of the national tournaments, to see which of those participating teams can stay with Ike, and which ones can't. Churchill and DCC are pretty dominant teams in their own right, good enough in other years to win a Class A championship--not this year. Utica Eisenhower last won the Class A championship in 1992, having also win it in 1989. They finished as the Class A runners-up in 1999, losing to Detroit Catholic Central in the championship game 1085-535. (cont'd next message....)
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