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Enters Semfinals!!!
OPEN DOOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOL DEFEATS KEYSTONE
TO ENTER SEMIFINALS OF HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLASTIC GAMES
In the program’s second quarterfinal contest, the academic team from Open Door Christian School defeated Keystone High School by a score of 410 to 150, on the High School Scholastic Games of Lorain County. The radio quiz program, sponsored by the Educational Service Center of Lorain County with foundation support, is presented for one hour weekly on WEOL (AM 930). Open Door will face Lake Ridge Academy in semifinals, following additional quarterfinal matchups between Oberlin and Vermilion, and between Avon and Southview. The schedule of broadcasts is given below.
On the broadcast of April 14, 2008, Open Door’s team, consisting of Hannah Lewis, Toby Labanow, and team captain Galen Buttitta, maintained a lead throughout the program, with especially high-scoring fourth and fifth rounds, which have the highest scoring potential. The Keystone team, Kourteney Phillips, Preston Roeper, and team captain Tyler Bacsi, had a particularly strong start with a perfect score following the first round and a respectable “Current Events round,” but lacked the speed to stay ahead of the Open Door team when buzzing in for questions began.
Buttitta won the program’s “Standout Scholar” award, which includes a fifty dollar prize to the student judged to have contributed the most to his or her team. It was his third such award this year, and he won the honor twice last year, which puts him among an elite group of multiple winners listed at the Scholastic Games website (http://groups.msn.com/sgquiz). Keystone’s Bacsi won the award earlier this year. Teams prepare under the guidance of faculty advisors, Jackie Schiller for Open Door and Karen Sprague for Keystone.
The program is broadcast mostly on Monday evenings from 6:05 to 7 p.m., with occasional schedule variations due to live sports broadcasts. Programs from here on out are elimination rounds leading up to the program’s 18th championship in May.
PLAYOFF PROGRAMS IN COMING WEEKS:
-Monday, April 21st - QUARTERFINAL #3 - Oberlin vs. Vermilion
-Monday, April 28th -QUARTERFINAL #4 - Avon vs. Southview
(Weekly programs continue until May 19th. )
Another important element of the program is a tuition credit program supported by area colleges and universities. Each participating school receives a $500 credit to be given to a deserving student, with an additional $1000 in credits to each school as it advances to the quarterfinal and semifinal levels. Contributing institutions include Ashland University, Baldwin-Wallace, Case Western Reserve, Heidelberg, John Carroll, Lorain County Community, Oberlin, Ohio Wesleyan, and Tiffin University.
The Scholastic Games’ producer, Jim Mehrling, is in his twenty-fifth year as a high school quizmaster in northern Ohio. Team members are selected by various means from student bodies of the respective schools. Again this year, most programs are followed by a talk feature, “Dialogues in Education,” highlighting school success stories and hosted by award-winning journalist Bob Tayek.
Foundation sponsorship is from the Nordson Corporation Foundation, the program's charter sponsor, the Majic Foundation (a supporting organization of the Community Foundation of Lorain County), the Nord Family Foundation, the Stocker Foundation, and the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation. The Elyria-Lorain Holiday Inn is in its thiteenth season providing recording venues, and broadcast time is provided by WEOL-AM for an eighteenth year. Again the station is presenting the program in the prime "afternoon drive" listening period.
The series has twice won "Achievement in Radio" (A.I.R.) awards from the Greater Cleveland March of Dimes. The producer, Jim Mehrling, began producing high school quiz programs in 1983 with "High School Whiz Quiz," which ran for nine years on WERE-AM in Cleveland. In addition to 15 consecutive years producing Scholastic Games of Lorain County, Mehrling produced two seasons of Cleveland-area programs for WCLV-FM, where he is in his thirteenth year as Production Manager.
BROADCAST ON AM 930 - WEOL - THE NEWS STATION
By Jim Mehrling, MEHRLING STUDIOS, 412 GIRARD DRIVE,
BEREA, OH, 44017-2449, telephone 440-234-6021 |
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