Ten members of the Summerland speech team competed at the Practice Makes "Perfekt" Invitational at Wisner-Pilger High School, Jan. 14. The Bobcats earned sixth place as a team behind Twin River, Wisner-Pilger, Homer, Laurel-Concord-Coleridge and Archbishop Bergan.

Scribner-Snyder was seventh, followed by West Point-Beemer, North Bend, Stanton, Pender, South Sioux City, Wakefield and Allen Consolidated.

Senior speaker Olga Mendoza took top honors in serious prose while Yulianna Olivan and Alanna Doll were named champions in duet acting.

Olivan also took the third-place trophy in entertainment speaking.

Rounding out the medal winners were Faith King, who was fifth in informative speaking and Emma Petersson, who finished sixth in program oral interpretation, a new event for teams in classes B, C and D this year.

POI is a 10-minute interpretive event, utilizing prose, poetry and drama pieces. Selections from each genre are spliced together and center around a single theme, argument or idea.

One place out of the awards were the oral interpretation of drama team, including Irelyn Bearinger, Brandon Pruden, Carlee Livingston and Sydni McConnell.

Bearinger and Talya Nilson landed in ninth place in duet acting. Livingston tested her entertainment speech, receiving an excellent rating.

A total of 215 speeches were presented throughout the day.