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CORVALLIS MEET RESULTS
January 17, 2021
Climb Continues
Columbia Falls Speech and Debate has solid performance to take 2nd at Corvallis Invitational
Corvallis, MT – January 16, 2021 –
The Class A competition continued to be tight at the final tournament of the regular season. In total Columbia Falls continued to make gains against stiff competition adding 40 points to their total from the week prior to finish second with 140 points. Ahead of Whitefish’s 136 points who finished third, but behind the first place performance of Frenchtown’s 172 points. Whitefish had placed first the week prior and Frenchtown had placed second.
Head Coach Blake Ladenburg was encouraged by his team’s performance this week, “we made up ground in events that we needed to, and overall had a strong tournament.” The team had their best performance of the season during preliminary rounds, but slipped in out rounds. As assistant coach Mikel Knutson stated, “we need to work on keeping consistent through the day, and give the same performance each and every round. If we held our performance from the first round throughout the tournament we would have been close to a first place finish”
The continued improvement was led by strong performances in both Speech and Debate. In debate the team was excited to see a second place finish by Calie Johnson and Raphe Salmon in Public Forum Debate, which was the first time the team had broken into out rounds this season. In speech Chloe Coberly and Griffin Conger had strong performances in both of their events to lead the speech team. Coberly took first place in Impromtu and 4th in Dramatic Interp, while Conger placed 2nd in both Original Oratory and Dramatic Interp.
The team will look to make final adjustments this week before the Divisional tournament on Saturday being hosted virtually by Polson. The top twelve competitors from each the east and west divisional will move forward to the State tournament the following weekend.
Each team needs to provide virtual judges for each tournament if you are interested in judging at any tournament please email b_ladenburg@cfmtschools.net.
Individual Results:
Memorized Public Address
4th Lillian McDonald
Informative Speaking
5th Taylor Stephens
Original Oratory
2nd Griffin Conger
Impromptu
1st Chloe Coberley
Extemp
5th Aiden Judge
Dramatic Interp
2nd Griffin Conger
4th Chloe Coberley
6th Zack Tillman
Humorous Interp
5th Ruby Davis
Policy Debate
3rd Emma Stephens and Tre Finley
7th Eleanor Hollingsworth and Finley Sundberg
Public Forum Debate
2nd Calie Johnson and Raphe Salmon
7th Brayden Crawford and Aiden Rohn
Sweeps (team score):
1st Frenchtown– 172
2nd Columbia Falls – 140
3rd Whitefish– 134
4th Laurel – 62
Logger Speech, Drama, and Debate had a successful weekend competing at the Class A invitational meet hosted by Corvallis and held virtually. It was a large meet with 20 schools represented and 240 individual competitors.
Students who placed were:
Dustin Heindel 8th place in Original Oratory
Phillip Schnackenberg 7th place in Original Oratory
Jenavie Hammond 7th place in Informative Speaking
Taryn Thompson and Jenavie Hammond 5th place in Humorous Theatre
Thomas Roark 3rd place in Impromptu Speaking
Congratulations to these students.
Despite this being a very odd season where we are spending our weekends in the Science Wing of the high school rather than traveling around the state, our students have done very well. Members of our small but mighty team have placed at every single tournament we have entered and most have chosen to compete in multiple events each weekend.
Logger Speech, Drama, and Debate will compete in the Class A Western Divisional Tournament this coming weekend and those that qualify will compete in the state tournament the following weekend.
Thank you for your support
