Madison Chess Club Competing At State Tournament Today
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David Slone-dslone@timesuniononline.com
Four Madison Elementary School chess teams are competing at the state tournament in Terre Haute today.
The 22 students traveled down for the tournament at Honey Creek Middle School Friday afternoon.
According to advisor Jay Bolduc, teams in fourth through sixth grades had to qualify for state competition at regionals. Students in third grade and under did not need to qualify to participate at state. Madison's regional was at Goshen High School Feb. 26.
Bolduc said Madison had two teams qualify for state, which is the most teams Madison has had in the seven years it has had a chess club. A team from Madison has qualified every year for state tournament.
The state chess tournament runs all day today.Members of the chess club at Madison are Jonah Reichenbach, Matthew Meyer, Kier Lightfoot, Silas Mast, Gabe Bowers, Aidan Walton, Anderson Hanlon, Benjamin Bolduc, Nathanial Pollnow, Andreana Heiman, Abby Rucoi, Chase Byron, Taylor See, Brent Buhler, Leo Medina, Sebastian Medina, Kenneth Lightfoot, Trent Shepherd, Samuel Bolduc, Juan Bernal, Noah Shepherd and Esteban Paredes.
