Broadwater Bulldogs Take 2nd Place Class B Drama Team
Author: MT43 News Staff Reporter
MT43 News Staff Reporter
The Broadwater Bulldogs collected the 2nd-place Class B Drama Team Trophy this past weekend at the Class B/C State Championships! Every member of the team qualified for the state competition held this past weekend at home in Townsend Schools. When placing in the finals of an individual event, each competitor is also earning points for their team; therefore, contributing to the team Sweeps. The Broadwater Bulldogs were edged out of the top spot this year by the Huntley Project Red Devils, another powerhouse in the world of Speech, Debate & Drama.
There were 42 competing schools at the state competition, where 271 entries, comprised of 327 individual students, contended in 18 Montana High School Association sanctioned speech, drama, and debate events. The two-day contest consisted of four rounds of competition followed by (depending on the event) a semi-final and a final round. Single judges scored the preliminary rounds, while the subsequent rounds had three judges a piece. Scores from all rounds and all judges are totaled to determine the winner of each event.
Teammates Noah Borror, Ava Boaz, and Lyrique Bryant were crowned the Class B Humorous Theater State Champions! Their piece highlights two prospective employees battling it out to work at Build-a-Bear. Senior Noah Borror has competed in Classical Theater the past two seasons with back-to-back third-place finishes, while sophomore Ava Boaz also competed in Classical last year, finishing second.
The Bulldogs had two dramatic entries that took fourth place, one in Solo and one in Theater. Senior Hannah Hall has been our steadfast Dramatic Solo competitor over the years. She finished fourth this year, with a fifth-place finish last year and second the year before. Fellow senior Aubrey Wells, along with scene partner Chloe Johnson, followed up their Divisional Championship with fourth at state. Aubrey improved on her fifth-place finish in the same event last year, where she partnered with her sister, Savannah.
Junior Kyla Meissner was the lone female in the finals of Humorous Solo, landing sixth place overall. She was second last year in the same event and second in her debut season in Humorous Theater. Advancing to the semi-final rounds but just missing the finals were: Ayden Thompson in Humorous Solo, Tessie Hughes in Dramatic Solo and the team of Angel Sentinall, Sarah Morgan & Simon Sanchez in Humorous Theater.
The source material for any Classical Theater piece must be at least 75 years old and can be serious or humorous in nature. Our team of Emmalyn Estrada, Zoey Osborne, Brynlee Neimier & Lucas Feller finished in seventh place with their take on the classic fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen of “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” Aspyn Bantz, Alanna Powers, Sondra Tittle & Rylie Burns teamed up to take eighth place with the baseball classic by Abbot & Costello, “Who’s on First.”
Townsend’s speech team was composed of lone competitor, Shalyn Sentinella. Her Original Oratory about confidence has been successful all season, culminating in a fourth-place finish at state. She competed in Informative last year with a speech about the Rubik's Cube, also placing her fourth.
The Broadwater Bulldogs have won the team Class B State Drama Championship five out of the last seven years. An amazing task, magnified now with three additional second-place trophies in a total of eight years. Coach Denise Bakkum and her daughter, Joy, have endless enthusiasm for this sport. With their hard work and dedication, along with the loss of only four seniors, the future continues to look bright here in Townsend.
Congratulations Bulldogs! And we look forward to next year!
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Image 1 Caption: Lyrique Bryant, Noah Borror, and Ava Boaz are Class B State Champions in Humorous Theater!
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Image 2 Caption: Broadwater Bulldogs snagged the second-place Drama Team trophy for Class B this past weekend. Congrats Bulldogs!
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