NUHS, MVL K-Bowl send one team each to state
Submitted photo New Ulm Purple, from left, Connor Slette, Griffin Marti, Dawson Schaefer, Max Gieseke and Isaac Blumhoefer
Submitted photo MVL Black, from left, Emma Grace Kramer, Jonah Kramer, and Mark Spengler. (Currently quarantined, but also members of MVL Black, Isaiah Carlovsky and Emma Niebuhr.)
Submitted photo New Ulm Purple, from left, Connor Slette, Griffin Marti, Dawson Schaefer, Max Gieseke and Isaac Blumhoefer
Submitted photo MVL Black, from left, Emma Grace Kramer, Jonah Kramer, and Mark Spengler. (Currently quarantined, but also members of MVL Black, Isaiah Carlovsky and Emma Niebuhr.)
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NEW ULM -- New Ulm High School (NUHS) and Minnesota Valley Lutheran (MVL) High School advanced one team each to the State Knowledge Bowl Tournament to be held online in April.
New Ulm Purple advanced by taking second place in the Class AA regional tournament, and MVL Black advanced by taking first place in the Class A regionals, Tuesday.
Four New Ulm High School teams advanced out of the sub-sectional meet to the AA Region 9 meet. The top six teams at the regional meet Tuesday were: 1. Owatonna (84 points); 2. New Ulm Purple (65 points); 3. Sibley East Black (64 points); 4. Mankato West Dream (59 points); 5. Mankato East Cobalt (57 points); and 6. New Ulm Ivory (56 points). The top three Class AA teams from the region advance to the state tournament.
In Class A, 12 teams competed for two spots at the state meet.
The results: 1. MVL Black (87 points); 2. Sleepy Eye Black (51 points); 3. Cathedral Fire (49 points); 4. MVL Blue (49 points); and 5. Sleepy Eye White (45 points).