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By Christine Krapf
Special to the Rappahannock News ! f Rappahannock County 1 High School’s Scholastic Bowl ! team scored more points than ; in two previous matches with ^ George Mason.
Still, the Mustangs proved too much for the Panthf ers.George Mason, the defending Group A state champion, ran off 50 consecutive points ; in the first round of toss-up questions and rolled to a 255195 win Monday night at Madison.
The win gives the Mustangs a 13-0 record at the ! halfway point of the Bull Rim District season. Rappahannock County is 11-3 and sits in : second place. The top two | teams at the end of the regular I season receive byes in the ! January district tournament. ' “When we faced Clarke | County and Strasburg, we were fairly quick on the ; buzzer,’ Rappahannock , County junior captain A.J. Collins said. ‘’With George ' Mason, there were enough j questions where they just beat | us* or we were hesitant on something.”
Still, the 195 points that | the Panthers scored were the ! most they had this season ! against the Mustangs. Only : four questions in the match were unanswered by the teams. > ?■ “Even though we lost, I don’t think it’s that bad,’ senior Colleen Daly said. We still did well. Against George Mason, that’s a lot of {mints to score.”
A scholastic bowl match includes 15 toss-up questions in the first and third rounds and 10 directed questions in r the middle round. Each correct response is worth 10 points. If a player interrupts while the question is being read, and the response is wrong, the team loses five points, c , • George Mason played without its captain, senior Peter Davis. . sw .Rappahannock County was without senior Alana Cloud, who usually starts, sophomore Tyler Crews and juniors Emma Hathaway and Chase Tupper.
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