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Glenmuir whip Marymount

ian allen - Glenmuir High's Schools' Challenge Quiz team.

BY: KAVELLE ANGLIN-CHRISTIE, Staff Reporter

LAST NIGHT'S SCHOOLS' Challenge Quiz match between Glenmuir and Marymount High School, certainly was not a challenge for Glenmuir, after they defeated Marymount 60-18.

Glenmuir's coach, Clayton McCalla, said: "We were confident coming into the match. We are a number­three seed, and they are unseeded, thus lacked inexperience. The next match will be more challenging, because as we progress, the questions get harder. But it was a pretty easy match."

During the first section, both schools played fairly well, and at that point it could have been anyone's game. They ended the section, with Glenmuir in the lead, 13-8.

Took charge

The second section was where Glenmuir really charged ahead proving they were definitely there to win. At the end of section two, Glenmuir led by 14 points; but it could still be anyone's game, right?

Well, during the five-minute final section, Glenmuir pulled out all the stops and sped full speed ahead to victory, barely giving the girls of Marymount a chance to press in.

Not to be forgotten, Marymount buzzed in, and sat in silence looking at the picture of Al Gore ­ this brought them down to 16 points. They however gained two points for the correct answer to "How many books are there in the Bible?" "Sixty-six," they confidently said. This brought them back to 18 points.

Glenmuir's captain, Christopher McKoy, said: "We prepared for this match, and have been preparing. We played it our way and we won." He went on to quote the school's motto: 'Like a ball of fire.'

The coach of the Marymount team, Andrew Gordon, said, "We did fairly well... We started practising three months ago, and to come against a third-seeded team with sixth formers was difficult. The boys were good though, very good."

The captain, D'Jamila Ward, said: "We are kind of disappointed. But it was a third- seeded school with more experience than us. The only thing is that we should have been more prepared. We had 3-4 months of preparation."