Manhattan High Scholar’s Bowl team attended another meet last week but it took place at Hayden High School in Topeka. Sixteen teams competed and the Manhattan High team went undefeated in pool play with a 7-0 record.

“It was a pretty standard meet with two pools of eight teams all playing each other once,” team player Joshua Schwartz, senior, said. “Then the top two teams from each pool advanced to a four-team double-elimination bracket to determine the first through fourth places.”

The team won their semifinal match against Seaman with a score of 60-30 allowing them to  advance to the finals where they lost to Mill Valley, a school they beat in pool play, 80-45.

“Sadly Mill Valley, one of the better teams in 5A, beat us 40-35 giving us second place for the tournament,” Scholars Bowl coach Ted Dawdy said.

Team player Sterling Edgar was slightly disappointed by the loss.

“I was a little bummed out by the last round because we had beaten that team earlier that day but then they beat us in the finals,” Edgar said.

Regardless, the team made it to the finals again, maintaining their consistency of making it into the finals each time and demonstrating, yet again, that the Manhattan High team is one of the strongest at the meets.

“We’re a pretty strong team,” team player Arnav Das said. “We got all of the subjects covered.”