By Monty Siekerman
The Ada High School quiz bowl team finished second out of 16 teams at the WTLW-TV Quiz Whiz held this week at WTLW in Lima.  

On Tuesday, the upper bracket field was reduced from eight teams to two.  In the opener, Ada scored an opening round win over Bath by one question. In the second round, the Bulldogs bested Celina to advance to the semifinals.

In the second night of competition, Ada defeated Versailles to advance to the final match, facing St. Mary’s High School.   St. Mary’s had advanced to the finals by winning both of their matches in the Wednesday lower bracket matches.  The lower bracket was also a field of eight.  

St. Mary’s opened the second night of competition with a hard fought win over Lima Shawnee before beating Ada in the final match.  

Bringing home the second place trophy were Ada Quiz Bowl team members:
Seated, left to right:  Libbie Milks, Jackson Secor, Evan Smittle, Meredith Marshall
Standing, left to right: Alex Hurtig, Noah Pinkney, Austin Amburgey with advisor Dave Lusk.