We have received 🙏 a glorious update on young Miss Delp as Mom says the shoulder is back in place !! Now, to the MACC update from Mrs. Dalton

The Cavaliers slid into a snowy welcome at Bland County for the first MACC match of the season. With all teams in the league coming to the table for the first time, there was no way to predict what might happen and everyone was out to set a tone for the season.

The Social Studies team did not disappoint. A perfect score would be 150 points. Social Studies team raked in 90-30, leaving only 30 points (six questions) unanswered.

Question of the night that should have been answered: First constructed in the fifteenth century, it has red brick walls and 20 towers, 19 of which have spires. Within its walls are an old Senate building and the white bell tower. Identify this site in Russia.

Next up was All-Around, who didn’t know Hillary Clinton but did know enough to bring in a 45-30 win. They missed out on this one that we know many in our audience will know: What folk singer- songwriter known for “If You Could Read My Mind” and “Sundown” and for songs that told tales of Canadian identity, died in late April 2023? He recorded 20 studio albums and penned hundreds of songs, including “Carefree Highway,” “Early Morning Rain,” and “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.”

We’ll highlight questions from English, Math, and Science for you as the season goes on.

The English teams prepared for the season by reading eight novels, eight plays, eight works of non-fiction, 16 short stories, and 16 poems… so they’ve got a lot of information in their heads to try to come up with in five seconds. Carroll had three returning players and three new players tonight who worked together for a 38-25 win.

Science had a dominating 95-0 win, with junior Connor Beasley having an outstanding night in the toss-up round. Beasley carried almost all of the ten of the toss-ups, shutting out a young Bland team. The Bland coach said she’s really excited about the future of her team because they are mostly eighth graders who will have many years to play together.

In the final match of the night, math (one of our biggest teams this season) was slow to add up points, but did walk away with a 20-10 win. The math team wins the award for the player who really went out of their way to be there as Davis Reitzel stayed in Hillsville for basketball practice and then he and his mom drove to Bland for MACC. He’s planning to pull another double at Galax this Thursday, but at least this time his commute will only be across the hall from the auditorium to the gym.

Join the Cavaliers on Thursday at Galax at 6 pm for more quiz bowl action!

Thank you so much and I hope to be able to add some photos 📷 as the work shift progresses !