Seneca Valley students excel at On-Sets tourney
JACKSON TWP — The Seneca Valley Academic Games Team showed their skill during the recent On-Sets Tournament in Pittsburgh. Twelve teams in the Western Pennsylvania Academic Games League participated in this competitive math game.
Haine Middle School teams placed first, second, third and fifth. They also had 17 national qualifiers, with four achieving perfect scores.
The first place team included Renhan Xu, Parker Logue, Zach Garcia, Anoop Savio and Dora White.
A tied second place team included Sebastian Wary, Jack Veverka, Matt Murphy, Nick Folino and Nate Trost.
The other tied second place team included Arya Nayak, Alex Kramer, Benaifer Sepia, Simren Jayaraman and Evan Howley.
The third place team included Jason Hartenstein, Ty Brinkley, Cameron Ailes, Olivia Demetter and Vibha Hodachalli.
The fifth place team included Sarah McKinley, Brenna Wrubel, Megan Bablak, Evan Prazenica and Ananya Rao.
National qualifiers were Zach Garcia, Matt Murphy, Anoop Savio, Dora White, Adam Raible, Connor Anderson, Renhan Xu, Ty Brinkley, Vibha Hodachalli, Arya Nayak, Simren Jayaraman, Ananya Roa, Megan Bablak, Jack Veverka, Sebastian Wary, Dilini Ranaweera and Claire Reynolds.
Perfect scores were earned by Zach Garcia, Matt Murphy, Anoop Savio and Dora White.
The middle division team national qualifiers included Francesca Citrone, Adam Corrigan, Angelo Gionnotta, Jose Ordonez, Vinya Ponugoti, Rishin Sharma, Dean Smith and Ryan Vogel.
In the junior division, two students, Kyle Cinderich and Urvi Gupta, qualified for nationals.
Shane Ruiz in the senior division also qualified for nationals.
For the next tournament in the series, the schools in the league will compete in Propaganda, a language arts game.
