Norwalk Takes First Championship Round
Firelands Challenge Match is Close..
After a week’s delay due to weather, the Firelands Challenge Championship Rounds got underway at Edison High School on Thursday. The three contenders finished the match in the same order as they finished the regular season.
Norwalk High School won the first of three Championship Rounds with a score of 46. Port Clinton and Edison finished close behind with scores of 40 and 39 respectively.
Norwalk took an early lead by answering all of the questions in the Life Science category. It held onto that lead for the remainder of the match.
Port Clinton made a run at the lead by answering six of eight questions in the first Lightning Round. It pulled to within two points of Norwalk with a successful bonus attempt in the U.S. Government category.
Edison was 12 points behind Norwalk at the half-way point. In the second half of the match it used bonus points in the Great Books category, won the Quotations category, and had three points in the final Lightning Round to end up the match only seven points behind Norwalk.
The key to Norwalk’s victory was its consistency in answering regular category questions. It correctly responded to eight of the ten possible questions. Port Clinton and Edison answered four each.
The teams will meet again next Tuesday at Port Clinton High School for the second Championship Round. The eventual winner will be determined by the cumulative total of points earned in all three rounds of the Championship.