Dover High Meets Souhegan High

Granite State Challenge - Round One

(DURHAM, February 19, 2024) - Dover High faces Souhegan High on Thursday, February 22, 2024, at 7:30 pm on NHPBS.

Playing for Dover High is team captain and senior Maddie Bachrach along with seniors Travis Benincasa, Jake Gagnon, and Leviathan Stewart. The team alternates are seniors Martin Smith and Sophia Ostrander. Math teacher Tim Elliott coaches the team. Dover High School enrolls around 1,500 students from Dover, Barrington, and Nottingham.

Playing for Souhegan High is the team captain and junior Kasen Fox joined by juniors Caleb Brower, Morgan Hallett, and Emma Crisman along with team alternates freshman Maya Gascoyne, sophomore Sami Hogan, and freshman Aaron Coleman. The coach for the team is social studies teacher Nicholas Drinkwater. Souhegan High is located in Amherst and enrolls around 750 students from Amherst and Mont Vernon.

The winner of the game will move on to the quarterfinals where they will meet the winner of the next Round One game, either Oyster River High or Trinity High in a game airing on Thursday, February 29, at 7:30 pm on NHPBS.

Hosted by Bow High School teacher and former Granite State Challenge coach (Bedford High), contestant (Belmont High), and Granite State Challenge crew member, Jon Cannon, Granite State Challenge features some of New Hampshire's brightest high school students 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 knowledge with GRANITE STATE CHALLENGE online quizzes, and more at the GRANITE STATE CHALLENGE web page, or try your hands at daily brainteasers on the GRANITE STATE CHALLENGE Facebook page.

GRANITE STATE CHALLENGE is funded by lead sponsor Unitil with additional funding from NEA New Hampshire, Safety Insurance, D.F. Richard Energy, and HRCU.

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