Can you stand another quiz report? If you have ever been involved in Bible Quizzing, you know it's a great program. It has helped Hannah tremendously in school this year. She had been struggling with her reading skills last year in school - by the end this year she tested higher than anyone in her peer group!
And now for the latest results, from proud daddy, Lance:
This weekend we had our last Indiana quiz tournament before State Finals. There were 8 teams competing, but the field was extremely strong, with Toledo OH and Troy MI coming over to quiz with our teams. Troy was the winner of the April Extravaganza and Toledo is one of the top 3 Ohio teams.
Our first quiz was against another one of our Calvary teams - albeit the weakest one. We won 165-90 with Hannah scoring 55 pts and her teammate Kendra scoring 110.
The second quiz was Toledo. After question #8 we were ahead 75 to -5 and only needed 2 out of the last 7 questions to win. Toledo's top quizzer got # 9, 10, and 11 to make it 75 to 55. Then Hannah got #12 to give us a 45 point lead with 3 questions to go. Again the Toledo quizzer got #13 and #14 which put us behind by 20 going into the last question. Hannah nailed the quotation question (her favorite) to win by 10. Hannah scored 80.
In the third quiz we had to go against the Calvary #1 team - which for this tournament had the top 2 Calvary quizzers together for the first time. They had just beaten Troy by 100 points and were rolling. They got the first 5 questions to take an early 50 point lead. Hannah got 2 twenty pointers, but we entered the last 3 questions trailing 95-40. I called a timeout and told the girls they needed all 3 thirty pointers to win. Kendra got #13, Hannah got #14 to give us a 5 point lead with one question to go. The other team buzzed in on #15, but fortunately for us missed the quotation question, giving us another last question victory. Hannah had 60 pts.
At this point we were undefeated and had to wait for the loser's bracket winner to quiz for the championship. It ended up being Troy MI (Russ Faubert is the coach and his son Rylan is their ace quizzer). Rylan was averaging 128 pts a quiz to that point.
Our girls came out hot and led 65 to 0 after question #7. We kept the pressure on and Hannah iced the game by getting #11 and #12. The final score was 155 to 20 over the recently crowned Extravaganza champions! Hannah was the high scorer with 85 pts.
Besides going undefeated, Hannah ended up the second high scoring quizzer with 68 pt average. Our balance was the difference, as Kendra also made all-tournament with a 63 pt. average.
I was very proud of our girls quizzing unselfishly as a team. I saw some real progress in their understanding of teamwork. Hopefully it will carry over for the rest of the year.
We now have 3 weeks to learn our last 25 verses for state finals. The big question now is what the teams from Calvary will be, as we still have 12 quizzers - 8 of which will likely learn all their verses by State. I don't recall that ever happening in any quiz program at any level. It is a truly remarkable group of kids, many of whom are 6 and 7 years old.
Your Indiana Beginner quiz reporter signing off.Les and I really need to take a trip to Indiana to see this girl in action!
