.jpg)
HARTINGTON — The Hartington-Newcastle Speech team brought home varsity runner-up honors and the junior varsity championship at the HNS/CCHS Invite in Hartington last Saturday.
The Battle Creek varsity claimed the team title, while Wayne finished behind HNS in third place.
The Wildcats tallied 24 medalists, with half of the varsity and JV finalists finishing with a topthree placing.
“We took a good step forward on Saturday,” coach Kyle Stevens said. “It will be good to get more work in over the coming weeks to see how we can continue to grow.”
The medalists were as follows: Autumn Anderson–-1st Place—JV Program of Oral Interp.
Austin Sudbeck, Trevon Hopping, Issac Santiago, Dane Gotch, and Carter Kelly–1st Place—OID Elena Reyes–-1st Place—JV Serious Prose Issac Santiago—1st Place—Serious Prose Alyk Zach—2nd Place—Poetry Cody Edwards—2nd Place—JV Extemp. Dane Gotch—2nd Place—Serious Prose Elena Reyes—2nd Place—JV Poetry Lainey Morten—2nd Place—Program of Oral Interp.
Ty Hopping—2nd Place—Entertainment Lainey Morten—3rd Place—Humorous Prose Olivia Olsen—3rd Place—JV Informative Allison Huesers—4th Place—JV Persuasive Dane Gotch & Issac Santiago—4th Place— Duet Dylan Heikes, Ella Kelly, Nora Lange, Kloe Fischer, & Henry Folkers—4th Place—JV OID Trynity Zach–4th Place—Poetry Cameron Carl–5th Place–JV Entertainment Hazel Hochstein—5th Place—Persuasive Nathan Heimes—5th Place—JV Informative Austin Sudbeck & Trevon Hopping—6th Place—Duet Trevon Hopping—6th Place—Program of Oral Interp.
Alyk Zach–-1st Place—Humorous Prose Next-In Final Emily Climer—5th Place—Informative Next-In Final Hazel Hochstein–6th Place—Informative Next-In Final The HNS Speech team travels to Boone Central for a dual on Saturday, Feb. 7 before competing at the Wausa Invite on Saturday, Feb. 14.
