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Glenmuir too good for Old Harbour

By ANDREA DOWNER, Staff Reporter

Oral Young, captain, Christopher McKay, Errol Thomas and Romain Mario Simpson of Glenmuir High School. - Carlington Wilmot

NUMBER ONE SEED Glenmuir High School, withstood moderate pressure to defeat Old Harbour High School in the first match of the third round of the School's Challenge Quiz yesterday.

When moderator, Francois St. Juste asked the first question, what could be described as a battle royal ensued. The stakes were high as the coveted title was much closer than the two previous rounds. Both teams were tense and poised to fight for the chance to advance to the quarter final round.

At the end of section one however, it was Glenmuir that was in front with 10 points, three more that Old Harbour which had 7.

They continued this trend into the second section as when the time keeper signalled that the time allotted for that section had expired, the scores read, 23-17 in favour of Glenmuir.

The section was by no means uneventful as the audience erupted into peals of laughter when Glenmuir's team captain Oral Young had great difficulty explaining the meaning of necrophilia; a morbid an especially erotic attraction to corpses. Well in the heat of the moment, at the height of the contest, Young had a hard time phrasing it so delicately. Apparently mindful that he was on national television and his teachers were present, he fumbled his way through the answer, much to the amusement of most persons in the television studio.

More determined

"Love of corpse," he venture first. But he felt the need to elaborate. "To go around and mess with corpses," the apparently embarrassed young man added as he tried to find a delicate way to put it.

An obviously amused Francois St. Juste accepted his answer and the judges did not object.

That aside, though both teams seemed focussed on winning the match, Glenmuir was arguably the more determined of the two. They fought to the finish. To their credit, they displayed strong team synergy during the match. They did not appear as four individuals, but rather, as one unified force with one purpose. They ended the match with 35 points to Old Harbour's 25.

Old Harbour put up a valiant fight and even though they were clearly disappointed at having lost the match, none of the team members shed any tears. However, they were too distraught to speak to THE STAR.

Ryan Fyffe, their coach, disclosed that he felt that the buzzer section was his teams undoing. He said that section has been his team's achilles heel throughout the competition. He said, however, that Glenmuir's win was not an overwhelming victory and he was sure that at points his team had them worried.

Romain Mario Simpson of Glenmuir High credited his team's victory simply to "lots of practice."

The other members of Glenmuir's team were, Errol Thomas and Christopher McKay.

Old Harbour's team included Julio Maragh, team captain, Sherene walker, Omar Morrison and Shawn Williams