{"id":567,"date":"2013-02-16T19:39:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T03:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/?p=567"},"modified":"2017-05-05T19:01:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T03:01:35","slug":"randy-kaech-reports-on-wa-high-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/randy-kaech-reports-on-wa-high-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Randy Kaech Reports on WA High Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

HIGH SCHOOL STATE – “THE BIG DANCE”<\/strong>
\n SIX NWL TEAMS JOIN THE FRAY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Six high school teams from the Northwest Chess League qualified and attended the season-concluding State Chess Team Championships, held this year at Interlake High School in Bellevue on February 8 and 9, 2013. The competition was tough, as evidenced by the top three finishers (Lakeside, Interlake, Garfield) having an average chess rating of 1750. After the 445 games of chess were finished, here’s how it settled:<\/p>\n

Chess State Team 2013 Final Standings:
\n1st Lakeside
\n2nd Interlake
\n3rd Garfield
\n4th Eastlake
\n5th Newport
\n6th Roosevelt
\n7th Ferndale
\n8th Overlake
\n9th Ingraham
\n10th Issaquah<\/p>\n

Northwest League:
\n7th Ferndale
\n15th Ferndale B
\n20th Lynden Christian
\n24th Sehome
\n26th Blaine
\n28th Meridian<\/p>\n

In the State Junior Varsity event, Ferndale’s Ben Witzel went undefeated and untied and is the 2013 Washington State JV Champion:<\/p>\n

1st Ben Witzel, Ferndale
\n7th Bailey Westman, Ferndale
\n10th Drake Likkel, Lynden Christian
\n12th Brady Hornstra, Lynden Christian<\/p>\n

Full Event\u00a0Crosstable<\/a>. Photo below submitted by Duane Polich.<\/p>\n

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HIGH SCHOOL STATE – “THE BIG DANCE” SIX NWL TEAMS JOIN THE FRAY Six high school teams from the Northwest Chess League qualified and attended the season-concluding State Chess Team Championships, held this year at Interlake High School in Bellevue on February 8 and 9, 2013. The competition was tough, as evidenced by the top […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholastic","tag-high-school-chess","tag-washington-scholastic-chess"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}