The St. Mary Catholic Community School Chess Club competed in the Scholastic Chess of Indiana Regional tournament at Hammond Central High School on Saturday January 4th. Twenty-seven SMS students represented the school in the nine-hour tournament with 200 region chess players. “All the students were exemplary models of hard work and good sportsmanship,” said Coach Lisa Mullally.
Fifteen SMS Wildcats performed well enough to qualify for the state tournament at the end of January. Nine of the fifteen qualifiers were in the middle school division. Four of those were in the top ten, which is an astounding feat! Andrew Myers performed nearly perfectly with 5 wins, achieving third place in the region. Joey Mullally was just behind him in fourth place with 5 wins as well. James Raggs and James Wong both had 4.5 wins, landing in seventh and tenth place respectively. Rounding out the middle school state qualifiers were Nathan Ford, Gabriel Rosado, Joey Shea, Luca Trajkovski, and Ayumi Artis.
In the elementary division, the state qualifiers were Lukas Vicari and Kameron Williams. In the third grade and under division, SMS rising stars who qualified for state were Matteo Gutierrez, Kai Newtoff, Mariella Ables, and Jacob Abramowicz.
Alfonso Gutierrez and Jonathon Patton
Mateo Gutierrez and Mariela Ables
Joseph Mullally and James Raggs
St. Mary Catholic Community School in Crown Point offers grade levels Junior Pre-Kindergarten (for three-year-olds) through grade eight. St. Mary’s offers numerous clubs and activities for students of various interests. To learn more about St. Mary School’s upcoming Open House events on January 22nd from 6:00 to 8:00 PM and January 26th from 10:00 AM to noon, visit school.stmarycp.org.
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