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02/23/2006: "Speakers wrap up regular season"
The Crofton speech team picked up a bundle of awards while competing in two meets over the past weekend.
The speakers have another twosome of meets in the coming week as they participate in the NENAC Speech Meet on Saturday, Feb. 25 in Laurel and then travel to Battle Creek for the District Speech Meet on Tuesday, Feb. 28
At the Creighton Invitational, held Friday, Feb. 17, Annette Merchen led a large number of varsity place winners as she got first in informative speaking.
Mike Kleinschmit, in entertainment, and the oral interpretation of drama team (Megan Schiferl, Emily Nohr, Michelle Repenning, Matt Oltmanns, Tony Pier) each got third places; Schiferl, in entertainment, Repenning, in informative, and Kleinschmit and Ross Carda, in duet acting, each picked up fourth place honors. Nohr was fifth in serious prose and Dana Merkel was sixth in informative.
In the novice division, Gabriela Patrikova took first in persuasive to lead the rookie division. Lindsey Kuehler was third in informative; Brittany Lammers was fourth in serious prose; Becca Evans and Stacie Guenther got fourth in duet acting; and Danielle Kleinschmit got fifth in serious prose.
In Saturday’s Crofton Invitational, the CHS speakers collected a trio of gold medals. Merchen again won in informative while Schiferl, in entertainment, and Oltmanns in extemporaneous, also won firsts.
Maddy Larson got third in serious prose, an place also won by Repenning, in informative.
Earning fifth places was Merkel, in informative, and the oral interpretation of drama team (Schiferl, Nohr, Repenning, Oltmanns, Pier). Kleinschmit was sixth in entertainment, as was Nohr in serious prose. Seventh place honors were won by Kelsey Custer, in poetry; Patrikova, in persuasive; and Dustin Kathol, in extemporaneous.
Omitted from the Lutheran High Northeast place winners was Lindsey Kuehler, who got third in novice informative.
