I say CONE, you say STOGA

Quizzing on Superbowl Sunday is always interesting. So we can get home in time for the Superbowl, the matches begin at 2 p.m. instead of the usual 6:30. So this changes a lot of things. First, we had to practice during the Sunday school hour. I quizzed out every match, although I came close once to not. The team was there for the whole worship afterward. Immeadiately afterward, we left for Conestoga. We had to eat our lunches in the van. I had a hoagie with a lot of odd combinations for condiments. I think I might have grossed out Bobby with it. When we got to Conestoga, we spent an hour doing rounds of questions, trying to get the last bit of material in our heads.

Since Conestoga is as close as it comes, we had lots of fans. Most of them were from Spring City, but we had a few from my church as well. My youth group leader Karen came with her sons, blessings from the church, and a cool new quizzing buddy. Everyone's parents were there. There is always a suprise in the crowd for fans. For the last two weeks it was Christine. This time I saw Angela, from Ark quizzing back in 2004. Thank you to all the fans that came out for this match. I hope you were pleased by our performance.

Our first match was the first of the afternoon. It was against Rockville 2. I took seat 4. We started out strong. I got the first question right, but the second question I errored on. Tim taked the Deitricks into a strategy. Once he buzzed in correctly, he sat out to let the others get in for team bous I quizzed out the next question, and Tim was already back in. I was the only one who quizzed out. We still couldn't get team bonus. We did win 75-50, but we were hoping to score more, get more quiz outs, and maybe team bonus. Still, we were happy for a win, and whatever points we could get.

Our second match was awesome. It was against Living Rock 1. On the first question, Tim buzzed in and got the answer correct. For the second question, I buzzed in and got it correct. On question number 3, Mike buzzed in and got it right. Living Rock 1 called a timeout knowing with 12 questions left, Spring City was only 1 question away from team bonus. Tim was pretty sure Chelsea (our other starter) was going to get it, he wanted to put his buzzer down. Mrs. Deitricks sternly told him he would do no such thing. It didn't matter because question 4 was a situation question, which I of course got right. The next situation question was question 6, which I quizzed out on. On one of the questions, they called "the crowd" a what question. Tim contested and said "the crowd" should be a who. Dave and I didn't think it would pass, but it did! The question was thrown out, Tim got the replacement question for his quizout. He hadn't gotten one of those in a long time. Mike also quizzed out, which we haven't seen in an even longer time. Chelsea got us team bonus with the right answer of "turmoil"! Alyssa buzzed in on "What was inscribed..." and we though she would get it, but alas not this time. Bobby finished up the match by buzzing in and naming what something like a large sheet contained. We won 145-20. These were the points we needed. But the coolest thing was 5 of our 6 quizzers buzzed in correctly.

So here's where Spring City is, according to the halfway mark stats. Although Spring City moved up to an 88 points/match average, we are still in 11th. Apparently, everyone else did well, too. Our team has only gotten team bonus 4 of the past 10 match. I rank as the top quizzer on the team, placing 18th in the ACC with 320 points. Tim is next, with 250 points, placing 49th. After Tim is Mike with 175 points and 95th place. Bobby has 50, and Chelsea has 40 points. We are still looking forward to match where Alyssa gets her first points.

The next week we start the second half of the season at LMH, quizzing against a below average team and an above average team. To get back up to our week 2 average of 92.5, we need to score 230 points in the 2 matches next week. That means scoring 120 points in one match and 110 in the other match. We're going to need lots of studying, prayer, and God's favor. Please pray for us. Also, please pray that I can continue to find car rides home!