Newark Science Closes Out 2015 Berkeley Invitational

Berkeley, CA -- Congratulations to Newark Science's SunHee Simon and Christian Quiroz for closing out the 2015 Cal Invitational at the University of California, Berkeley! In semifinals, SunHee defeated Greenhill's Bennett Eckert; Christian walked over teammate Adegoke Fakorede. Congratulations to all! SunHee, Christian, and Adegoke are coached by Jonathan Alston, Chris Randall, and Tommy Curry. Bennett is coached by Aaron Timmons, Bekah Boyer, Josh Roberts, and Rebecca Kuang.

Berkeley is an octafinals bid qualifier to the Tournament of Champions. The tournament will have six preliminary rounds. All speech and debate events will be held on the UC Berkeley campus this year, so each event will only run three rounds per day. Preliminary rounds will run from Saturday to Sunday, with elimination rounds on Monday.

Pairings can be found on Tabroom: https://www.tabroom.com/index/tourn/index.mhtml?tourn_id=3024 

Triple Octafinals

Newark Science CQ def Mountain View KX

Peninsula AT def Harker RX

John Marshall DD def Northland Christian DS

Brentwood JP def Saratoga SD

Newark Science AK def Oakwood NM

Torrey Pines KK def San Marino KW

Brentwood JL def Lynbrook VV

Brentwood JR def Harvard-Westlake CE

Harvard-Westlake NS def Timberline JWy

Greenhill GB def Loyola ZM

Crossroads NS def Harvard-Westlake EE

Harker PR def Bellarmine NT

Peninsula KK def Kinkaid JY

Oakwood JW def Kinkaid NK

Peninsula AJ def Harker KQ

Dougherty Valley CR def Sprague BR

Peninsula JZ def Bainbridge CW

Greenhill VA def Boise KD

Miramonte TK def Palo Alto AL

Katy Taylor NY def Flintridge MC

Peninsula IG def Palo Alto AM

Miramonte AB def Lake Highland MC

Brentwood MR def Evergray KV

Brentwood JC def Torrey Pines AI

Newark Science AF def Northland Christian DL

Torrey Pines VB def Peninsula JL

Presentation MS def Brentwood CH

Newark Science SS def Immaculate Heart LM

Lynbrook NS def Cypress Bay IP

Los Altos JN def Bellarmine OS

Lynbrook DW def Dougherty Valley SZ

Greenhill BE def Palo Alto AM

Double Octafinals

Brentwood JL vs Newark Science AK (Newkirk, Letak, Silberman)

Newark Science SS vs Brentwood MR (Alderete, Hunt, Silberman)

Greenhill GB vs Brentwood JC (Coffman, Fink, Gingold)

Harker PR vs Presentation MS (Alderete, Legried, Overing)

Greenhill VA vs Torrey Pines KK (Letak, Legried, Berger)

Oakwood JW vs Brentwood JR (Yanofsky, Damerdji, Lonam)

Peninsula AJ vs Crossroads NS (Scher, Knell, Leone)

Torrey Pines VB vs Peninsula JZ (Leone, Scher, Knell)

Harvard-Westlake NS vs Miramonte AB (Amestoy, Johnson, Hudgens)

Newark Science AF vs Miramonte TK (Mathur, Wheeler, Hunt)

Greenhill BE vs Katy Taylor NY (Huston, Wheeler, Coffman)

Newark Science CQ vs Lynbrook NS (Go, Fife, Erickson)

Dougherty Valley CR vs Peninsula KK (Go, Overing, Martel)

Brentwood JP vs Lynbrook DW (Amestoy, Horowitz, Chen)

John Marshall DD vs Los Altos JN (Fife, Lin, Chen)

Peninsula AT over Peninsula IG

Octafinals (bid)

Newark Science SS def Torrey Pines VB (Varun Bhave) (Boyer, Newkirk, Gingold)

Newark Science AF def Greenhill VA (Varad Agarwala) (Rourick, Berger, Lin)

Harker PR def Oakwood JW (Jack Wareham) (Ziedrich, Legried, Knell)

Peninsula AJ def Brentwood JP (Jared Paul) (Chen, Hsiung, Yanofsky)

Brentwood JL def Miramonte AB (Andrew Bower) (Fink, Wheeler, Timmons)

Greenhill BE def Brentwood JC (Amestoy, Letak, Sulyma)

Newark Science CQ def Dougherty Valley CR (Connor Riano) (Auro, Phung, Thomas)

Peninsula AT def John Marshall DD (David Dosch) (Bryan, Scher, Randall)

Quarterfinals

Newark Science AF def Brentwood JL (Jackson Lallas) 3-0 (Amestoy, Bietz, Thomas)

Newark Science SS def Peninsula AJ (Akhil Jalan) 2-1 (Lin, Boyer, Fink*)

Greenhill BE def Peninsula AT (Arjun Tambe) 2-1 (Yanofsky*, Alston, Berger)

Newark Science CQ def Harker PR (Pranav Reddy) 2-1 (Timmons, Knell*, Wheeler)

Semifinals

Newark Science CQ over Newark Science AF (Adegoke Fakorede)

Newark Science SS def Greenhill BE (Bennett Eckert)

Champions

Newark Science CQ (Christian Quiroz) and Newark Science SS (SunHee Simon)