Perkins County Schools speech team takes second at Sutherland

Speech teams from ten schools participated in the Sutherland Speech Invitational last Saturday.
The schools in attendance were Sutherland, North Platte St. Pats, Perkins County, Chase County, Hitchcock County, Wallace, Paxton, Hershey, Hayes Center and Creek Valley.
Sutherland won the Invite with Perkins County as runner-up, Paxton came in third and Chase County placed Fourth.
Individual speech participants’ results were:
Duet:
Jeb Kohl and Triston Hite - 1st place
Eli Busick and Kenna Busick - 6th place
Extemporaneous:
Ryder Potts - 4th place
Eli Busick - 6th place
Informative:
Gavin Smith - 1st place
Kaitlin Meyer - 3rd place
OID:
Meghan Bishop/Blake Dolezal/Triston Hite/Jeb Kohl/Sophia Perez - 2nd place
Humorous:
Summer Postlewait - 2nd place
Emme Sims - 5th place
Poetry:
Summer Postlewait - 2nd place
Eric Gonzales - 5th place
Emma Klahn - 6th place
Maylynn Walker - 7th place
Serious:
Iris Robles - 3rd place
Caitlyn Dolezal - 4th place
Persuasive:
Gavin Smith - 1st place
Meghan Bishop - 2nd place
Team scores:
1st Sutherland 238 points
2nd Perkins County 228 points
3rd Paxton 122 points
4th Chase County 42 points
5th Wallace 40 points
6th Hitchcock County 28 points
7th North Platte St. Pat’s 12 points
8th Hershey 10 points
Hayes Center
Creek Valley

The next meet is the Blue and Gold Invitational at North Platte High School this Saturday.