Plymouth High Bobcats Top Dover High Green Wave in Final Minutes

(DURHAM, March 8, 2020) –The Bobcats of Plymouth Regional High topped the Dover Green Wave in round-one play on Granite State Challenge.

Playing for the Dover High Green Wave was Captain Ryan Gregorakas, Will Hicking, Jacob Favolise, Christian Cullimar, and alternate Lauren Stephens. The team was coached by Eric Salmonsen and Timothy Elliott. Dover High is located in Strafford County and serves students in Dover, Barrington, and Nottingham. It has an enrollment of around 1,312 students.

Playing for the Plymouth Regional High School Bobcats were Captain Rhys Harris, Michael Cathy, Mason Earick, Rhianna Herlihy, and alternates Ben Kresge and Erek Bickford. The team was coached by Jay Fogerty. Plymouth Regional High enrolls around 634 students and serves Plymouth, Ashland, Holderness, Campton, Rumney, Wentworth, Warren, Ellsworth, Waterville Valley, and Thornton.

Plymouth came out ready to play and at the end of Round One had a commanding lead of 160-50. In Round Two, Dover played well, but Plymouth held on to end the round with a score of 320-190. In the 60-second Round, Dover selected the category "Every Witch Way" and correctly identified eight out of ten famous witches of wizards, missing only on the Grand High Witch from Roald Dahl's novel, The Witches and Samantha Stevens, the lead character from the TV series, Bewitched. Plymouth chose the category "One and Done" and correctly answered nine out of ten questions whose answers included the word "one." They missed on a question about rapper Lawrence "Kris" Parker, known as KRS One. At the end of the 60-second round, Plymouth lead by a score of 410-220.

In the Fourth Round, correct answers are worth 20 points, but an incorrect answer will cost a team to lose 20 points.  Dover played an aggressive round and with two minutes and thirty seconds left in the game, had tied the score at 390-390. They hung on and with just under a minute left in the game, the score was tied 450-450. Dover correctly answered questions about the Nurenberg Trials and Jigsaw puzzles and Plymouth answered questions about Galileo and Jack London. With just 5 seconds left in the game, the win would come down to this final question - "This could be a collection of maps, a Greek Titan, or the surname of a famous bodybuilder."  If you guessed Atlas, you were correct as was Rhys Harris of Plymouth, who secured a nail-biter of a win for Plymouth with a final score of 510-490.

Plymouth now goes on to face either Manchester Central or Hanover in the quarterfinals.

Granite State Challenge is funded by lead sponsor Unitil; with additional funding from NEA New Hampshire, Safety Insurance, New Hampshire Lottery, Heinemann Publishing, Cognia, HRCU, and Manchester Community College.

Granite State Challenge features New Hampshire's top high school academic quiz teams as they demonstrate remarkable teamwork, quick thinking, and smarts to beat the clock and buzz in first on this iconic New Hampshire game show. The game emphasizes quick recall of math, science, social studies, language arts, and fine arts facts—along with questions about current events, entertainment, sports, and New Hampshire.

You can follow your favorite team, test your own knowledge with GRANITE STATE CHALLENGE online quizzes, and more at the GRANITE STATE CHALLENGE web page or try your hand at daily brainteasers on the GRANITE STATE CHALLENGE Facebook page.

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