On Saturday, February 28th the Centennial It’s Academic TV team of senior and captain Ryan Heslin, Senior Anant Mishra, and Junior Gary Tse won their It’s Academic TV taping at WJZ TV studios . The score was Centennial 700 points, Mount de Sales 395 points and Perry Hall 380 points. The Centennial team will now proceed to the semi-finals which will be taped on Saturday May 9th. You can watch the Centennial victory on April 18th at 10 am on channel 13.
On Sunday, March 1st the Centennial Varsity and JV teams braved the elements to attend the state finals for HSAPQ at College Park. The Centennial A team of Ryan Heslin, Weijia Cheng, Gary Tse, and Jason Li won the state finals going undefeated 9 and 0, while the JV team of Siri Neerchal, Sahil Saini, Rohan Laljani, Jakob, Boeye, William He and Steen Alme, came in 2nd place in the tournament beating Churchill and C Milton Wright. The JV team was 2 and 1 against Churchill, and 3 and 0 against C Milton Wright, both Varsity teams. For HSAPQ, we are now the Maryland State Champions for both the Varsity Team and the JV Team for 2015.
We are very proud of our victories this weekend. Thank you to the parents who were willing to drive despite the inclement weather. Thanks to Mrs. West for attending the taping and the Drill Team for performing on the TV show.
Words submitted by Eric Seifter, Coach
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