Rock Bridge High School takes first place at 20th annual High School Math Tournament

Published: 03/09/2017

St. Charles Community College hosted the 20^th annual High School Math Tournament in cooperation with mathleague.org on March 4. The event brought 11 area high schools and 44 students to SCC’s campus. The tournament was open to any student in grades 9-12. 

The results for the tournament are as follows:

Ninth grade finalists: Target Round

• First place: Benjamin Hollander-Bodie of MICDS. Hollander-Bodie had a score of 60 and a Borda of 120.
• Second place: Bhavya Perma of Marquette High School. Perma had a score of 50 and a Borda of 100.
• Third place: Nawal Cheema of Liberty High School. Cheema had a score of 40 and a Borda of 87.
• Fourth Place: Anna Xu of Rock Bridge High School. Xu had a score of 30 and a Borda of 67.
• Fifth place: Kaitlyn Crawford of Parkway North High School. Crawford had a score of 20 and a Borda of 29. 

10th grade finalists: Target Round

• First place: Michael Yu of Francis Howell Central High School. Yu had a score of 80 and a Borda of 137.
• Second place: Danny Weber of Francis Howell High School. Weber had a score of 30 and a Borda of 67.
• Third Place: Jeremy Sutterer of St. Dominic High School and Siyuan Guo of Rock Bridge High School tied for third place. The students had a score of 30 and a Borda of 77.
• Fifth Place: Noah Free of St. Dominic High School. Free had a score of 20 and a Borda of 46.

11th grade finalists: Target Round

• First place: Daniel Barnett of Rock Bridge High School. Barnett had a score of 80 and a Borda of 137.
• Second place: John Kim of Parkway Central High School. Kim had a score of 50 and a Borda of 100.
• Third Place: Kevin Kiehne of Rock Bridge High School. Kiehne had a score of 40 and a Borda of 93.
• Fourth Place: Andrew Mannis of Parkway Central High School. Mannis had a score of 30 and a Borda of 44.
• Fifth Place: Dilan Kurukulasuriya of Rock Bridge High School. Kurukulasuriya had a score of 30 and a Borda of 77. 

12th grade finalists: Target Round

• First place: Sean Harrigan of Parkway North High School and Tobi Ola of Parkway North High School tied for first place. The students had a score of 70 and a Borda of 133.
• Third place: Keaton Immekus of Fort Zumwalt West High School and Patrick Yang of Parkway North High School tied for third place. The students had a score of 60 and a Borda of 119.
• Fifth Place: Matthew Guess of Rock Bridge High School. Guess had a score of 50 and a Borda of 95. 

Ninth grade finalists: Sprint Round

• First place: Bhavya Perma of Marquette High School. Perma had a score of 73.
• Second place: Benjamin Hollander-Bodie of MICDS. Hollander-Bodie had a score of 53.
• Third place: Anna Xu of Rock Bridge High School. Xu had a score of 40.
• Fourth place: Arjun Ramakrishnan of MICDS. Ramakrishnan had a score of 39.
• Fifth place: Varsha Murali of Parkway Central High School. Murali had a score of 26. 

10th grade finalists: Sprint Round

• First place: Michael Yu of Francis Howell Central High School. Yu had a score of 48.
• Second place: Jeremy Sutterer of St. Dominic High School. Sutterer had a score of 31.
• Third place: Siyuan Guo of Rock Bridge High School. Guo had a score of 20.
• Fourth place: Brendan Pinkerton of Fort Zumwalt West High School. Pinkerton had a score of 14.
• Fifth place: Danny Weber of Francis Howell Central High School. Weber had a score of 11. 

11th grade finalists: Sprint Round

• First place: Daniel Barnett of Rock Bridge High School. Barnett had a score of 105.
• Second place: John Kim of Parkway Central High School. Kim had a score of 54.
• Third place: Kevin Kiehne of Rock Bridge High School. Kiehne had a score of 36.
• Fourth place: Dilan Kurukulasuriya of Rock Bridge High School. Kurukulasuriya had a score of 32.
• Fifth place: Sarah Butterfield of Parkway North High School. Butterfield had a score of 25. 

12th grade finalists:

• First place: Sean Harrigan of Parkway North High School. Harrigan had a score of 75.
• Second place: Keaton Immekus of Fort Zumwalt West High School and Stephanie Zhang of Rock Bridge High School tied for second place. The students had a score of 65.
• Fourth place: Tobi Ola of Parkway North High School. Ola had a score of 51.
• Fifth place: Adam Sandstedt of Rock Bridge High School. Sandstedt had a score of 43. 

Team Round: No grade level

• First place: Parkway North High School with team members Butterfield, Chang, Harrigan, Ola, Yang and Zhang.
• Second place: Rock Bridge High School with team members Zhang, Guo, Guess, Kurukulasuriya and Barnett.
• Third place: Rock Bridge High School with team members Sandstedt, Xu and Kiehne.
• Fourth place: Marquette High School, MICDS and Parkway Central High School tied for fourth place. Marquette High School’s team included Perma. MICD’s team included Ge, Hollander-Bodie, Ramakrishnan and Mandal. Parkway Central High School’s team included Murali, Kim, Kattan, Mannis and Mack. 

Relay Round: No grade level

Rock Bridge High School won the relay round with team members Xu, Barnett and Kurukulasuriya.  

Overall winners

• First place: Rock Bridge High School with a score of 181.833.
• Second place: Parkway North High School with a score of 127.833.
• Third place: MICDS with a score of 58.6667.

In some of the results there is a column for "Borda." This is a data point the Math League uses to break ties and is effectively a weighted average of the empirical difficulties of the questions a student or team answered. The tie goes to the student or team with a lower Borda score, because they correctly answered a more difficult set of questions relative to the other competitors at the contest. If two test scores are identical and the Borda scores are also identical, then the two students or teams have tied. 

For more information about the tournament, contact Joe Howe at jhowe@stchas.edu or 636-922-8318.

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