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<\/a><\/p>\nIt looked bleak for Oak Grove as they saw Wayne County quickly scoring again in the last attempt for both teams to earn a spot in the Championship round.\u00a0 Wayne County\u2019s Luke Bowles earned the first five points against Oak Grove, with Nicholas Cooksey and Dakota Brewer assisting to put the Warriors up 15 points. Oak Grove sophomore, Ethan Choi answered correctly on the fourth question, helping his sister and senior, Erin Choi to earn two bonus points.\u00a0 The score remained 15 to 7 until Warriors\u2019 sophomore Tegus Kotikalapudi earned five points on a math question to bring the Oak Grove score to 12.\u00a0 Wayne County\u2019s Brewer tried to take control earning five more points but Oak Grove\u2019s Ria Patel answered with five-points and the Choi siblings added seven more points on the next question ending the match with Oak Grove ahead, 24 to 20. The War Eagles ended the series in fourth place overall.<\/p>\n
In the first match-up between the two Hattiesburg area schools, it appeared Presbyterian Christian had the edge coming into the final round as the only undefeated team in the playoffs. PCS quickly scored 12 points by the ninth round of questions with the Warriors scoreless. However, Oak Grove\u2019s Ethan Choi and Kotikalapudi managed to disrupt the 12 point lead the Bobcats had on the Warriors in the first half of the final match by scoring the team\u2019s first, 7 points.\u00a0 The momentum continued with the two gaining 10 more points.\u00a0 In the second half of the final \u201cSuper Bowl\u201d round between the Warriors and the Bobcats, Kotikalapudi and Choi were hot on the buzzer with the correct answers in the math and science categories and racked up 22 points and kept PCS from scoring again until late in the half.\u00a0 Presbyterian Christian\u2019s Matthew Morgan managed to get the next science question correct giving Carson Dorsey and Jackson Polk the opportunity to earn two-points each by correctly answering the bonus questions. The Bobcats earned 21 points and were ready to close the gap when Kotikalapudi took control two questions later. Ethan Choi answered the bonus question correctly surging the Warriors\u2019 score to 29.\u00a0 Then, answering the next technology question, PCS freshman, Sam Powell scored 5-points correctly giving the Bobcats 26 points. It appeared PCS was going to win the match when Dorsey earned 5 points allowing Polk to score a two-point bonus.\u00a0 On the 28th<\/sup> question, the score was in favor of PCS, 33 to 29.\u00a0 The two teams failed to answer the following question leaving it all to be decided by the final question about engineering. Kotikalapudi buzzed in first and correctly answered, ending the match with the Oak Grove Warriors winning by one-point, 34 to 33.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019d like to thank Percy Jackson!\u201d exclaimed Kotikalapudi.\u00a0 \u201cI read the books and watched the movie about Percy Jackson and I remembered the part about Archimedes screw in Greek mythology and that\u2019s how I knew the answer to the last engineering related question. Also, I\u2019d like to thank my fifth-grade Accelerated Reading class because I read a lot of books which helped me today.\u201d<\/p>\n The Oak Grove Warriors captured the title, 2018 JC Bobcat Math League Champions for the second time with the team coming in second place last year and first place in 2016. Oak Grove High School, their coach, and the team earned a total of $3,250 this year, as well as trophies, plaques, medallions and scholarships to Jones for the senior team members. Presbyterian Christian\u2019s last appearance in the finals happened in 2014 and 2013 when they took the title both years. The second place school, coach and team earned a total of $2,725 this year, as well as trophies, plaques, medallions and scholarships to Jones for the senior team members. In 2012, the Bobcats were runner-ups so perhaps this could be the beginning of another series of wins for Presbyterian Christian. Sacred Heart ended the day in third place taking home $2,000. The fourth place Wayne County team and its coach earned $1,525.<\/p>\n The Most Outstanding Players from each of the thirteen participating schools were: Columbia Academy,\u00a0 Warren Parker; Heidelberg HS, Jamicgra Morgan; Laurel HS, Maxwell Dobbs; Northeast Jones HS, Lexi Berlin; Oak Grove, Erin Choi; Perry Central, Shanna Stewart; Presbyterian Christian HS, Grayson Nocera; Quitman HS, Logan Kelly; Raleigh HS, Trace Bowen; Sacred Heart, Ben Dunn; Wayne Academy, Hannah Burke & Ryan Miller; Wayne County HS, Nicholas Cooksey & Joshua Curry, and West Jones HS, Eva Kiparizoska.<\/p>\n Sponsors of the Bobcat Math League at Â鶹ֱ²¥ include the Chisholm Foundation, Corner Market, Jones County EDA, Wayne County Economic Development District and Howard Computers.<\/p>\n Results are posted on the JC Bobcat Math League web page under \u201cDivision Standings\/Schedules at: http:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/bobcatmathleague\/ \u00a0and the Facebook page: Bobcat Math League – Facebook<\/a> as well as local media outlets. For more information about the Bobcat Math League contact Dr. Jessica Bunch (JC Bobcat Math League Commissioner) at 601-477-5422 or email at jessica.bunch@jcjc.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ELLISVILLE \u2013 After battling all day at the Â鶹ֱ²¥ Bobcat Math League playoff competition, the first-seeded Oak Grove Warrior team won the 2018 Championship title for the second time in recent history. It literally came down to the last question in the final round of 30-questions with the second-seeded team, the Presbyterian Christian Bobcats. … <\/p>\n<\/a>Sacred Heart\u2019s Ben Dunn earned a laptop from Howard\u2019s Computer as the overall individual with the highest average accuracy rate during the regular season and the title, the Most Outstanding Player.\u00a0 He is also a member of the All-League team, which recognizes the top scoring individuals during the regular season. Other All-League team members include Erin Choi-Oak Grove, Nicholas Cooksey and Joshua Curry from Wayne County, Maxwell Dobbs-Laurel High School, Grayson Nocera-Presbyterian Christian, Remy Poirrier-Sacred Heart and Sam Powell-Presbyterian Christian.<\/p>\n