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Havre speech wins at home tournament Saturday

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The Havre High School speech and debate team dominated at its home tournament with seven first-place finishes by Blue Pony competitors and the team winning the Class A speech trophy.

"This was a great finish for Havre," head coach Tim Leeds said. "Our team is growing, but a lot of these students are first-year competitors and we have a lot of freshmen, so finishing how they did was really impressive."

The tournament brought 15 schools to compete in Havre, from as far away as Glasgow and Stanford-Geyser High School.

In the Class A competition, Havre took first, with Browning coming in second.

Junior Elaine Atkinson, competing for Havre in her second year and competing in her first tournament in spontaneous oral interpretation of literature, took first in that event. Senior Tana Gorecki, a new addition to Havre's team and also competing at her first tournament in spontaneous interp, took fourth.

Freshman Kate Hemmer took first in original oratory, and first-year Havre speaker Angelle Roen, a senior, took first in memorized public address.

Havre public forum debate team Joram Randolph and Noah Teasley faced off against fellow Blue Ponies Sean Borrero and Xavier Ulano, with the debaters, all juniors, debating three rounds. Randolph and Teasley took first, winning all three rounds in debates each judge described as very close competitions, with Borrero and Ulano taking second.

Veteran policy debaters Lillie Mecklenburg, a junior, and Dartanion Kaftan, a sophomore, were the only competitors in that event at the Havre meet and took first by default.

Senior Alyssa Smith, competing in her first year for Havre speech and at her first tournament, took third in informative speaking.

Competing in humorous oral interpretation of literature in his first tournament, freshman Dever Everingham took fourth and second-year competitor Tristan Molyneaux, a sophomore competing for the first time in humourous interp, took fifth.

Three freshmen competing for the first time placed for Havre in Lincoln-Douglas debate, with Paige Bertelsen taking fifth, Justin Lickfold taking sixth and Hector Valdez placing seventh.

"These finishes are pretty impressive as new as most of these kids are to competition," Leeds said. "I am looking forward to them all continuing to improve and putting up some impressive finishes through the season.

"And I can't thank the local community enough for its help," he added. "As always, we can't put these tournaments on without countless hours of volunteering by community judging, and the local people came through for us again. With so many schools, we had to have more judges than we do at a typical invitational tournament, more rooms being used each round, people came out to volunteer and we had a successful tournament."

Havre next travels to Chester for the CJI Invitational Tournament Nov. 16 and then to Columbia Falls Nov. 23.

 

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