BISMARCK, N.D. (NewsDakota.com)- This past weekend the Valley City High School Hi-Liner Speech Team traveled to the St. Mary’s Central High School Capital City Lions Speech tournament in Bismark, ND.

This was a huge speech tournament with 24 schools in attendance and over 600 individual entries. It is the biggest tournament that the VCHS Speech team will travel to all year. Out of the field of 24 teams, VCHS placed 1st as a team. Dickinson was 2nd and St. Mary’s placed 3rd.

Hi-Liner speech had lots of individual success to celebrate at the tournament. Due to some events being so large, superior speaker awards were awarded to students receiving a rank of 1 and not breaking into finals or not breaking into finals on a tiebreaker. They are included in the results below.

Individual results:

Impromptu: Keona Munowenyu (Top Novice)

EPR: Olivia Slyter (Superior Speaker), David Opdahl (7th), Maggie Oberlander (6th), Abby Slyter (1st and State Qualified)

Speech to Persuade: Abby Slyter (2nd and State Qualified on A/B split)

Speech to Entertain: Alexis Wobbema (8th), Elizabeth Gazeley (4th), Dylan Quick (2nd State Qualified on A/B split)

Humorous Duo: Connor Remick/Cassie Mundal (Top Novice), Olivia Slyter/Sophie Boe (Superior Speaker), Katy Meester/Elizabeth Gazeley (3rd)

Humorous: Katy Borg (Top Novice), Dylan Quick (Superior Speaker), Jacob Jenness (8th), Monisha Terry (1st and State Qualified)

Radio Broadcasting: John Lahlum (8th)

Serious Duo: Abby Slyter/Rose Marcellus (1st and State Qualified)

Poetry: Gabby Shipp (Superior Speaker), David Opdahl (Superior Speaker), Lillian Kiefert (7th)

Serious: Katarina Vachal (Superior Speaker), Rose Marcellus (2nd), Maggie Oberlander (1st and State Qualified)

Storytelling: Elizabeth Gazeley (Superior Speaker), Sophie Boe (6th)

Dramatic Interpretation: Gabby Shipp (Top Novice), Madi Klabo (Superior Speaker), Lillian Kiefert (7th), Maggie Oberlander (3rd), David Opdahl (2nd), Rose Marcellus (1st and State Qualified)