Scholar Bowl

Well, the fall season is done for the St. Anthony Scholar Bowl team. Believe it or not, they actually did extremely well. The varsity only lost one match the entire year, and that can be accredited to the seniors not being there (they were all at Kairos that week). If they were there, the team would have indubitably been undefeated, as the seniors are the key players on the team and only get taken out to show the other teams mercy.

The seniors are Greg Schmidt, Alex Bauer, Drew Willenborg, Marty Jansen, Paul Sudkamp, and John Schultz. Even with most of the seniors not playing, one or two is enough to take care of the job. The only time the team was down, besides that one loss, was to T-town, the second match of the year. They trailed at half-time but were soon able to regain the lead. The fall season ended with matches against Stew-Stras and Windsor. They beat Windsor 170-65 and Stew-Stras 249-69. Needless to say, they are amazing at what they do.

In a Scholar Bowl match, the players have to answer a "toss-up" by buzzing in with a hand held buzzer. If one team gets it correct, then the moderator (the person reading the questions, usually the coach of the team not playing) will ask them a 3-5 part bonus question. If the team who answered the toss-up only gets, let's say, two out of the four questions right, the other team has an opportunity to answer the remaining parts to the question. Toss-ups are worth 10 pts and bonus are worth 20 (that 20 is divided depending on how many parts they get correct).

Scholar Bowl is interesting to watch, and something everybody needs to see once. Come to watch the spring season. There are plenty of home matches, but get there early; the seats fill up fast.


~Drew Willenborg