Twenty-two Scurry County students qualified for the Class 1A regional academic meet during Monday’s District 13-1A contest at Ira ISD.
Seventeen Ira High School students and five Hermleigh High School students qualified for the regional meet, which will be held April 13 at San Angelo. The top three finishers in the district contest qualified for the regional meet.
Highland High School won the district academic meet title with 598.5 points, followed by Ira with 516 points. Hermleigh finished third with 200 points while Westbrook (169), Trent (106.5) and Loraine (10) rounded out the standings.
Ira finished with seven first place finishes — Lasey Johnson (feature writing), Brilynn Loving (prose), Grace Highfield (science), Brenna Hartman (spelling and vocabulary), Asher Fowlkes (accounting), Brayden White (calculator applications) and Dylan Billingsley (computer science).
Three Ira teams also won first place and qualified for the regional event. The accounting team of Fowkles, Jessica Heiskell, Breuana Hall and Kylie Miller swept the top four spots in the contest.
In addition to White, the calculator application team of Camren Ochoa (fourth place) and Heiskell (sixth place) qualified for regionals, as did the computer science team of Billingsley, Holden Rios (second place), Lexton Hernandez (tied for third place) and Ike Weaver (tied for third place).
Individual regional qualifiers from Ira were Ben Fonville (second in copy editing and headline writing), Johnson (second in news writing), Heiskell (second in mathematics), Esmeralda Torres (second in informative speaking) and Molly Jamison (third in ready writing).
Hermleigh’s Stormi Cobb (informative speaking and poetry interpretation) and Grace Rister (chemistry and science) each won their respective contests. Rister also finished second in prose interpretation. Sadie Robertson finished second in science.
Ryleigh Benitez finished third in poetry interpretation while Brianna Rawls was third in persuasive speaking and prose interpretation.
Members of the Ira journalism, literary criticism, mathematics, number sense and spelling and vocabulary teams finished second overall in each contest. Hermleigh won the science title.
Here are the results of other Hermleigh and Ira students at the district academic meet:
Computer Applications: Emily Lowry (Ira), fourth place.
Editorial Writing: Kylie Miller (Ira), fourth place; Heidi Sanchez (Ira), fifth place.
Headline Writing: Grace Highfield (Ira), fourth place; Brenna Hartman (Ira), fifth place.
Informative Speaking: Marie Achterberg (Ira), fourth place; Tana Pierce (Ira), sixth place.
Lincoln-Douglas Debate: Drew Porter (Ira), fifth place; Marie Achterberg (Ira), sixth place.
Literary Criticism: Victoria Winkler (Ira), fourth place; Kasey Hoyle (Ira), fifth place; Molly Jamison (Ira), sixth place.
Mathematics: Asher Fowlkes (Ira), fifth place.
Number Sense: Sadie Robertson (Hermleigh), fifth place; Jessica Heiskell (Ira), sixth place.
Persuasive speaking: Bailey Pierce (Hermleigh), fourth place; Kolten Welch (Ira), sixth place.
Poetry Interpretation: Tiffany Beltran (Hermleigh), fourth place.
Prose Interpretation: Macie Hanshew (Ira), fourth place.
Ready Writing: Heidi Sanchez (Ira), fourth place.
Science: Grace Highfield (Ira), science.
Spelling and Vocabulary: Emily Lowry (Ira), fifth place.
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