Annabel Conger and Colin Norick nabbed first in policy debate and Chloe Foster was first in memorized public address as the Columbia Falls speech and debate team won the Class A sweeps at the Corvallis/Hamilton Invitational Tournament over the weekend.

The tourney featured 22 teams from Class AA, A, and B/C.

“With up 50 competitors in an event, the competition was tough to reach the finals round. Columbia Falls had students place in the finals round of top eight in every speech and debate event,” said coach Tara Norick. The Wildcats racked up 168 points. Whitefish placed second with 65 points and Belgrade was third was 40.

“Our balance across the team will really help us as we look to competing in the state tournament later this month in Laurel. We have to keep working to fine tune our speeches before then as we do not see the eastern teams until we are at state,” Norick said.

The squad hosts the Western A divisional tourney Jan. 21.

Columbia Falls individual results are as follows:

Policy Debate

5th Ian McKenzie and Danielle Schwalk

7th Trey Spalding and Shyane Williams

LD Debate

4th Tyler Brown

5th Mikel Knutson

Public Forum

5th Anna Nicosia and Ava Chisholm

7th Maggie McKeon and Delaney Conger

Dramatic Interp

4th Jacob Hohman

6th Estevon Torres

Humorous Interp

6th Jerelyn Jones

Impromptu

5th Danny Morgan

8th Willie Baltz

Extemp

4th Danny Morgan

Oratory

4th Willie Baltz

Memorized Public Address

7th Joey Chester

Informative

4th Jacob Hohman