TWINS CREDIT TRIVIA STUDY ST. FRANCIS TEAM UNSEATS ALEMANY'S DECATHLON DYNASTY.Byline: Susan Abram Staff Writer MISSION HILLS - A team from St. Francis High School of La Canada Flintridge took first place in the private school Academic Decathlon decathlon (dĭkăth`lŏn), in modern Olympic games, a contest for men held over two days and composed of 10 track-and-field events. competition Sunday, dethroning Bishop Alemany High School Bishop Alemany High School is a Roman Catholic secondary school located in the Mission Hills neighboorhood of Los Angeles, California, located in the San Fernando Valley. It is located within the San Fernando Pastoral Region of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. . For seven years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time students of St. Francis have taken second place to mighty Bishop Alemany in the Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, contest, watching as the Mission Hills high school collected awards. But this year, St. Francis' powerful duo, 17-year-old twins Jackson and Patrick Musker, individually scored the most points for their team and took home awards of their own. ``Everybody is really overjoyed o·ver·joy tr.v. o·ver·joyed, o·ver·joy·ing, o·ver·joys To fill with joy; delight. o ,'' said Jackson, who scored 8,748 points out of a possible 10,000. Patrick came in a close second with 8,321. His team has studied trivia together every day, Jackson said. ``We studied everything from romantic songs to geometry geometry [Gr.,=earth measuring], branch of mathematics concerned with the properties of and relationships between points, lines, planes, and figures and with generalizations of these concepts. every day from 2 to 4 p.m. since September,'' Jackson said. The seven teammates of St. Francis scored 44,154, beating out Bishop Alemany's 41,402. ``Alemany students are saying that they lost to a good team,'' said JoAnn Schnelldorfer, coordinator for the event. The two schools have gone neck and neck for the last eight years, Schnelldorfer said. Eighteen private schools competed in this year's decathlon. The winners will go on to state competition in Modesto March 7-9. The winner of that contest will compete in the U.S. Academic Decathlon in Erie, Pa., April 23-26. Bishop Alemany placed third in state competition last year and in 1997. |
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