Morrison won six of its seven matches at the tournament, defeating Annawan, Geneseo, LaSalle-Peru, United Township, Moline, and Riverdale, and losing one match to Ashton-Franklin Center. This year’s first-place finish improves upon Morrison’s third-place finish at the tournament last year.
Morrison pulled off a tremendous upset in the championship round against Riverdale. Morrison, trailing Riverdale by a score of 230-100 at halftime after 10 questions, managed to catch up to Riverdale by the end of the 17th question. Morrison continued scoring on questions 18, 19 and 20, and ultimately won the match by a score of 340-300 to secure the first-place finish.
R.E.S.T. is a 12-team tournament split up into two pools of six teams with the top two teams from each pool playing a 2-game playoff for the top four places. Competitors came from Annawan, Ashton-Franklin Center, Geneseo, LaSalle-Peru, Mercer County, Morrison, Newman, Princeton, Riverdale, Rock Falls, St. Bede, and UTHS.
Morrison’s team consisted of Violet Mills, Gen Vegter, Nara Hardesty, Quinn Blevins, and Blaine Williams.
