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New Orleans preliminary round results.
New Orleans single elimination round results.
Washington preliminary round results.
Washington single elimination round results.
Chicago preliminary round results.
Chicago single elimination round results.
Team rankings, listed alphabetically by school name.
New Orleans Phase
The Field
Six of the sixteen teams made the playoffs: two from Oklahoma, two from Louisiana, one apiece from Kentucky and Arkansas. Both Louisiana teams – E.D. White and New Orleans Jesuit - advanced to the final four, and Jesuit won that game 320-200. St. Pius X (OK) defeated Conway Christian (AR) 390-195. In an almost identical score to last year’s final New Orleans match (in which Nashville AR defeated Altamont AL 345-305), St. Pius edged Jesuit, 340-305.
MVP
Jesuit's Patrick Fine was named New Orleans MVP.
DC Phase
MANHEIM TOWNSHIP
Lancaster, PA
DOES IT AGAIN,
FINISHING SECOND
(l to r) Coach Eugene Huang, William Liu, Tajin Rogers, captain Kate Salamido,
Bobbie Sheng, Ross Dempsey, Renee Wah
Ten of the 25 teams made the playoffs. Both Manheim Township teams and both Longfellow teams made it. Longfellow scored an alltime record 600 points in their first playoff game, a mark never reached by the previous Jon Leidenheimer-led Longfellow teams. In the Final Four, Gretna (NE) came the closest of any team this year to beating Longfellow, falling short by a score of 340-405. Then Manheim Township’s decisive win over a very impressive team from Warren Township (NJ), 465-270, led to some speculation that this might be the year that the Pennsylvania team would finally overcome Longfellow, having been defeated by the Virginia school in the DC finals in two of the previous three tournaments. The 2011 edition of Longfellow featured no superstars in the mold of Jon Leidenheimer, but a powerful and balanced attack in which all players contributed significantly. The final score was Longfellow 340, Manheim Township 240. When might Manheim Township at last beat Longfellow for the Junior National Academic Championship title? Perhaps when they play in high school tournaments: Longfellow, with no opportunity to play in middle school tournaments, competed in no less than ten high school tournaments in 2010-2011.
(l to r) Sam Goldman, Coach Charlton Wolfgang, Matthew Allan (holding the trophy),
Evan Aitken, Sam Womeldorf, Vayda Good
Chicago Phase
In the Chicago playoffs, fifth-seeded Holy Name (KY) defeated rookie Port Clinton (OH) 380-270, then whalloped fellow-Kentuckians Danville Bate, 455-280, in a scoring fest fueled by Heynce Sights’ grabbing all five bonus-round tossups (an alltime first at Junior Nationals), and then sweeping SCIENCE & MATH in 60 Seconds. After Trinity B (AR) beat Hawken A (OH) 395-245, they were dominated by Holy Name in the finals, 445-200. This was Holy Name’s second consecutive triumph in Chicago and, while Longfellow was crowned 2011 National Champs (for the third consecutive year) due to their 9-0 record and 428 average, it will remain a matter of speculation whether Longfellow would beat Holy Name, if it were possible to arrange a game between the two. As it is, Longfellow is No. 1, but Holy Name’s Heynce Sights was named tournament MVP.
WINNERS OF OUR 4 TOURNAMENTS
2008 – Bate Middle School (Danville, KY)
2009 – Longfellow Middle School (Falls Church,VA)
2010 – Longfellow Middle School (Falls Church,VA)
2011 – Longfellow Middle School (Falls Church,VA)
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