By Mike Maltais
For the second consecutive year, the Liberty Bell High School Knowledge Bowl team will head to the Knowledge Bowl State Championships in Arlington on March 22 as North Central Washington 1B/2B regional champions after the Mountain Lions defeated all comers at Chelan last Wednesday.
“Led by strong buzzing-in by Willy Duguay, the team won all five oral rounds and the written round,” said coach Leverett Hubbard. “We dominated our opponents … in head-to-head matches.”
Round results
Round 1 Liberty Bell 12, Easton 2
Round 2 Liberty Bell 8, Soap Lake 7
Round 3 Liberty Bell 10, Waterville 4
Round 4 Liberty Bell 7, Omak scratch team 1 (necessary to fill out the tournament bracket)
Round 5 Liberty Bell 12, Manson 4
Written round
Liberty Bell 39
Soap Lake 35
Easton 25
Manson 25
Waterville 23
Scratch team 20
Team totals
Liberty Bell 88 (2B to state)
Soap Lake 84 (1B to state)
Manson 52 (2B to state)
Easton 52
Waterville 46
Scratch 44
Part way through round two, Liberty Bell was down, 3-6, but with neurons firing and synapses smoking, the Mountain Lions “came back in a resounding second half of questions to win, 8-7,” Hubbard said.
Liberty Bell will go up against the best in the state starting at 8 a.m. on March 22 at Arlington High School.
