Newest Twist on Academic Knowledge Bowl

On March 22nd, word was received that the competition for the West Central Academic Knowledge Bowl will not start until 6:00 PM on March 26th. _____ It will take place at the Smith-Cotton Junior High with parking on Massachusetts Street in Sedala. _____ Competition is expected to go all the way to 9:00 which will return the O'Hara participants to Kansas City as late as 10:30 PM. _____ O'Hara has a varsity team plus a team that can either compete as a junior varsity team or as a freshman team since all the members are from the 9th grade. _____ It will be the first time the event is scheduled for a Friday instead of a Saturday, and the first time it will not be in the morning. _____ The Conference is supposed to have competition on the varsity level, junior varsity level, and freshman level, but last year at Saint Pius, there were no junior varsity nor freshman games. _____ For the past eleven years when Brother Richard replaced Lanus Setzer as the moderator, O'Hara has fielded all three teams even when the other schools failed to. _____ Prior to Brother Richard's time, there were three levels of competition as well.