LEXINGTON — DanvilleHigh School took first placewhile Boyle County HighSchool placed sixth in theKentucky High SchoolSpeech League’s BluegrassRegional speech tourna-ment held Saturday at Lex-ington’s Lafayette HighSchool.
In the 35-county Blue-grass Region, Danvilleplaced first by a wide mar-gin, with Lexington Dunbartaking second, LexingtonLafayette landing third, Lex-ington Henry Clay earningfourth, Lexington TatesCreek getting fifth and BoyleCounty placing sixth in theteam sweepstakes.
Students competed in 12speech categories to qualifyfor the March 23-24 statespeech tournament and forregional champion and run-ner-up medals. Danvillequalified 36 entries for state;Boyle advanced nine.
Sarabeth Marlowe andLaurel Payne led the Speak-ing Admirals with dual re-gional championships.Marlowe placed first inbroadcast announcing anddramatic interpretation,while Payne won first in po-etry and storytelling.
DHS took five additionalchampionships: MadelineSalinas in declamation; JoeWeston in extemporaneousspeaking; Drew Lane in hu-morous interpretation; NateJohnson in impromptuspeaking; and Andrew McK-inney in original oratory.Regional runners up in-cluded Boyle’s MollieLafavers in dramatic inter-pretation and Danville’sTaylor Hesselbach in broad-cast announcing, EmmaJackson in declamation,Jack Graham in humorousinterpretation, Nate John-son in original oratory, Is-abelle Ballard in prose, andWright Williams in story-
telling. Advancing to state from
Boyle County are CassidyWheeler and Jacob Gad-berry in broadcast an-nouncing; Mollie Lafaversand Kaylee Johnson in dra-matic interpretation; TalhaMuhammad and CarterGrimes in extemporaneousspeaking; Katie Followelland Alex Draut in prose;and Sydney Johnson in sto-rytelling.
Advancing to state fromDanville are Taylor Hessel-bach, Marc Manheim andSarabeth Marlowe in broad-cast announcing; Sue Cook,Emma Jackson and Made-line Salinas in declamation;Drew Lane, Sarabeth Mar-lowe and Kolton Winfield indramatic interpretation; Is-abelle Ballard/Dylan Crow,Jack Graham/Tyler White-
house and Sarabeth Mar-lowe/John Thompson induo interpretation; JonoBeto, Phoebe Ross and JoeWeston in extemporaneousspeaking; Waylon Duff, JackGraham and Drew Lane inhumorous interpretation;Jono Beto, Nate Johnsonand Joe Weston in im-promptu speaking; DylanCrow/Nate Johnson, Way-lon Duff/Kolton Winfieldand John ompson/WrightWilliams in improvisationalduo; Nate Johnson, AndrewMcKinney and MadelineSalinas in original oratory;Taylor Hesselbach, LaurelPayne and John Thompsonin poetry; Isabelle Ballard,Dylan Crow and Sam Nel-son in prose; and WaylonDuff, Laurel Payne andWright Williams in story-telling.
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At left, teacher John Erwin and students watch what happens whensoda and Mentos candy are mixed under pressure during Kid Concoc-tions class Monday at Toliver Elementary School. The class was part ofDiscovery Days. Other classes during Discovery Days include recycledart, ballon art, cooking, dancing, zumba, knitting, running, sign language,singing and drama. Parents have been invited to attend Friday so kidscan show off what they have learned in the classes.
Below, fourth-grader Eli Goggin watches what happens and reacts whenvinegar, food coloring and baking soda is mixed.
Bottom left, music teacher John Fleming teaches students how to makedog balloons.
Visit www.amnews.com to see a photo gallery of more images cap-tured during Discovery Days.
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Danville first, Boyle sixth inregional speech tournament
