Jayton advances to State UIL

JAYTON JOURNALISM HONORS Melody McClane and Lainey Baldridge are headed to State UIL Academic competition after Melody placed 1st in Editorial and Lainey placed 1st News, 2nd in Feature, 2nd in Editorial. | COURTESY PHOTO

JOURNALISM The Jayton UIL JournalismTeam (Melody McClane, LaineyBaldridge,BrodeeClay,and JaceChisum)wonthe2ndplace team award. | COURTESY PHOTO

ACCOUNTING The Jayton accounting team won 1st place. Abigail Mosley placed 1st, Zech Mosley placed 2nd, Jace Chisum 3rd and Tucker Scott 6th. | COURTESY PHOTO

JAYTON SPEECH All four of Jayton’s extemporaneous speakers are going to State UIL Academic competition, and their speech team has won the overall Regional team award (including extemporaneous, Lincoln Douglas Debate, poetry and prose). In Informative, Melody McClane took 2nd place and Colt Gentry took 3rd. In Persuasive, Cooper Spray finished 1st and Dayton Bleiker 3rd. | COURTESY PHOTO

POETRY Griff Reel is the Regional champion Poetry speaker and advances to State. | COURTESY PHOTO

PROSE Colt Gentry is headed to State UIL Academic competition, finishing 3rd in Prose. | COURTESY PHOTO

LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATE Jesse Yanez qualified for State in the Lincoln-Douglas Debate event. | COURTESY PHOTO