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Carroll Talking Saints Win 3rd-Place Sweepstakes at Casper Tournament

October 22, 2009

The Talking Saints opened its season by winning a third place sweepstakes award at the Casper College tournament in Casper, Wyo. on Oct. 9-10. Freshman Chris Axtman of Portland led the team with three first place finishes.

"We only sent the new team members and couple sophomores, but they held their own against full squads from around the region. We were very pleased," said coach Brent Northup.

Carroll swept debate with its sophomore team of Ryan Lorenz, from Helena and Forrest Laskowski, from Helena winning the Open division in Debate by beating one of the University of Wyoming's top teams. Three mostly freshman Carroll teams swept first, second and third in junior debate.

The winning junior teams were Chris Axtman, from Portland, Ore. and his partner Stacy Sammons, from Great Falls; Lada Bordewick, from Three Forks, Mont. and her partner Shelby DeMars, from Dillon, Mont.; Andy Burton from Billings and his partner Zach Robinson from Bend, Ore.

Chris Axtman won first in impromptu and extemporaneous speaking with Carroll students dominating the final rounds, with seven Carroll students among the 12 finalists.

The Talking Saints begin pursuit of their 20^th consecutive Northwest Conference championship on Nov. 20 at Linfield College in Oregon.

Carroll Results:

School Sweepstakes: Carroll, third; Open Parliamentary Debate: Ryan Lorenz & Forrest Laskowski 1^st; Junior Parliamentary Debate: Chris Axtman & Stacy Sammons 1^st, Lada Bordewick & Shelby DeMars 1^st, Andy Burton & Zach Robinson 1^st, Laramy Ayers & Tanner Van Wyck 5^th; Open Impromptu Speaking: Christ Axtman 1^st, Zach Robinson 3^rd, Laramy Ayers 6^th; Open Extemperaneous Speaking: Chris Axtman 1^st, Forrest Laskowski 3^rd, Stacy Sammons 4th, Ryan Lorenz 5th; Open Informative Speaking: Lada Bordewick 1^{st ,} Laramy Ayers, 6^th; Open Prose interpretation, Lada Bordewick, 5^th; Open debate speaker awards, Laskowski, 5^th, Lorenz 7^th; Junior debate speaker awards: Andy Burton, 2^nd; Stacy Sammons, 3^rd; Chris Axtman, 4^th; Shelby DeMars, 5^th, Zach Robinson, 6^th; Lada Bordewick, 10^th

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