B-B-E speech team rocks the night at subsections

Team champions!! W2G!

In a stellar showing at the Sub-Section 5A-19 meet in Paynesville tonight, the B-B-E speech team surpassed strong challenges by Sauk Centre and Melrose Area to earn first place. They went in like a well-tuned machine and walked away with a pile of hardware to show for it and a long, long list of placewinners.

Here are B-B-E's sub-section speech champions!
Joe Reller/Riley Schumann (duo), Treven Quade (drama), Nick Steinhofer (extemporaneous speaking), Tiras Dotson (humorous), Katie Hieserich (original oratory), Hannah Rach (poetry).

And the remaining awards/placewinners: 
2nd place: Isaiah Mitchell (creative), Kayle Benesh (extemporaneous reading), Mariah McDonough (great speeches), Ashlyn Jenc (informative), Molly Tengwall (storytelling).
3rd place: Ella Prokassin (drama), Shawn Felling (extemporaneous speaking), Mallory Bents (great speeches), Adrian Laage (humorous), Tyler Bents/Abraham Peter (duo)
4th place: Austin Meyer (drama), Courtney Brandt (extemporaneous reading)
5th place: Trustin Ziemer (discussion), Alex Schramel (extemporaneous reading)
6th place: Andrew Reps (discussion), Jaden Gossen (extemporaneous reading)
7th place: (Alternate to Sections) Stephanie Korf (drama)
Not placing but contributing to the massive pile of team points: Aspen Peterson, Discussion and Riley Lenarz, Informative (both just seventh graders)

Here are the team scores...and yes they are accurate!
1st) B-B-E 280
2nd) Sauk Centre 172
3rd) Melrose Area 157

The 4th-8th place teams weren't named...but here's the other schools participating: Albany, Benson, Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg, Paynesville Area and Swanville.

The top six finishers in each of the 13 categories move on to the Section 5A meet in Melrose next Saturday, April 5.

Here's a 16-minute video from the awards ceremony at the Sauk Centre Herald website:
http://saukherald.com/content/sub-section-5a-19-speech-awards

Here's a photo gallery at the Sauk Centre Herald website:
http://saukherald.smugmug.com/2014-News/SubSection-5A19-speech-meet