VALLEY CITY, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – On February 5^th, the Valley City High School Hi-Liner Speech Team competed for the 3^rd time this season. This weekend’s tournament was held at West Fargo High School and was a successful one for the Hi-Liners with 3 additional qualifiers to the State tournament in April and 11 total event champions . The sweepstakes awards are as follows: Valley City – 1^st, West Fargo Sheyenne – 2^nd, West Fargo Horace – 3^rd. Both class A and class B teams were present. In the case where 1^st and 2^nd place are taken by one class A entry and one class B entry, both students State qualify. This is known as an “A/B Split”. “Top Novice” indicates that the student was the highest scoring 7^th/8^th grader or first year 9^th grade competitor. Individual Results for the Hi-Liners are as follows:

Poetry: Cassie Mundal (7^th), Alexis Wobbema (2^nd), Ayden McPartland (1^st – Champion – State Qualified)

Serious: Alexis Wobbema (6^th), Ayden McPartland (3^rd), Madi Klabo (1^st – Champion – State Qualified)

Humorous Duo: Leah Hochhalter/Teddy Hochhalter (7^th), Elijah Drummond/ Jack Sorby (3^rd), Jerrica Eldridge/Ben Kruta (1^st– Champions – Previously State Qualified)

Extemporaneous Speaking: Abby Wilmes (Top Novice), Carter Hass (7^th), Abby Redfearn (2^nd)

EPR: Jared Burk (Top Novice), Emmy Jones (7^th), Madi Klabo (3^rd), Stephanie Hoffarth (2^nd), Morgan Jenner (1^st – Champion – Previously State Qualified)

Speech to Entertain: Molly Knight (8^th), Gabe Herzog (6^th), Alexis Wobbema (4^th), Jerrica Eldridge (3^rd), Jacob Kruger (2^nd)

Speech to Persuade: Alyssa Wilmes (Top Novice), Abby Wilmes (8^th), Josephina Spengler (7^th), Stephanie Hoffarth (3^rd), Abby Redfearn (1^st– Champion – Previously State Qualified)

Speech to Inform: Jared Burk (Top Novice), Abby Shanenko (8^th), Abby Redfearn (4^th), Emmy Jones (2^nd) Amelia Meester (1st – Champion – Previously State Qualified)

Dramatic: Erin Lutiker (Top Novice), Londine Marcellus (6^th), Alexis Wobbema (4^th) , Madi Klabo (1^st – Champion – Previously State Qualified)

Serious Duo: Elijah Drummond/Alyssa Wilmes (Top Novice), Leah Hochhalter/ Abby Shanenko (6^th), Ayden McPartland/Stephanie Hoffarth (4^th), Ben Kruta/Evan Mielke (2^nd), Morgan Jenner / Emmy Jones (1^st – Champions – total event entries not enough to be state qualifying)

Storytelling: Stephanie Hoffarth (3^rd), Amelia Meester (2^nd), Gabriel Herzog (1^st – Champion – State Qualified)

Radio Broadcasting: Alyssa Wilmes (Top Novice), Carter Hass (4^th), Jerrica Eldridge (2^nd), Abby Redfearn  (1^st– Champion – Previously State Qualified)

Humorous: Amara Judd (8^th), Jerrica Eldridge (1^st– Champion – Previously State Qualified)

Impromptu: Abby Wilmes (6^th), Madi Klabo (2^nd)

The Hi-Liners will compete this weekend on Saturday (2/12) in Bismarck at St. Mary’s Central High School.