The Brookfield East H. S. (BEHS) forensics team placed 2nd behind James Madison Memorial (JMM) at the Whitefish Bay Invitational on Saturday March 8th. Despite a strong showing of 305 points, the Spartans could not overcome JMM’s impressive 346 point 1st place finish. 14 BEHS team members made it through to the power round in 9 categories. The team’s 1st place finishers included Archit Baskaran, Elizabeth Smurawa, and Andrew Kluck. The team did have its first triathlon finisher this season with Hannah Shepherd taking 2nd for triple entered competitors. “What a long day, but a good one!”, said head coach Katie McClellan in an email. See the complete results for the day below.
Team results:
1st Place: James Madison Memorial - 346 points
2nd Place: Brookfield East - 305 Points
3rd Place: Whitefish Bay - 298 Points
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Individual results:
Triathalon (triple entry - @ least one speech and one interpretation event):
2nd: Hannah Shepherd
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Demonstration:
Finalist: Ashveer Singh
Extemporaneous:
3rd: Nithin Alexander
Finalist: Will Bartkowski
Oral Interpretation of Literature (OIL):
Finalist: Heather Patterson
Oratorical Declamation:
3rd: Lisa Browne
Finalist: Alaina Beau
Oratory:
1st: Archit Baskaran
Poetry:
1st: Elizabeth Smurawa
3rd: Hannah Shepherd
Radio:
1st: Andrew Kluck
2nd: Jonas DeMuri-Siliunas
Finalist: Trace Carrasco
Solo Humorous:
Finalist: Andrew Rusnak
Special Occasion:
3rd: Stephen Browne
Next tournament: Madison West Tournament on Saturday, March 15th, 2014
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