WEGO’s Scholastic Bowl team took the win over Fenton High School with a score of 280-80 after preparing for their first home meet of the season on Tuesday, Jan. 30th.

The team had been gearing up for their first meet of the year. The varsity team’s meet was held in Coach Nicholas Caltigirone’s classroom, and the JV team’s meet was held in Joe Zeman’s room.

“I do miss that feeling of when we first started and I really admired our varsity team at the time, but I think every year the new people we get bring something to the club,” Scholastic Bowl captain Enaya Kazmi said.

The team’s first two meets were canceled due to weather conditions. The competition has been greatly anticipated by its members, and are ready to have their first meet officially.

“It was supposed to be our third match of the year, but in fact, it will be our first match of the year, because of the e-learning days, we had two previous matches that have been postponed and rescheduled for February,” Caltagirone said.

Scholastic Bowl is a competitive trivia team in which participants have to be the first to “buzz in” and answer a set of toss-up questions to win points. The faster team receives the opportunity to answer bonus questions to get the chance to receive more points; however, the opposing team may be able to “steal” the point if answering incorrectly. The team competes with varsities from other participating schools. Scholastic Bowl also features a JV team, allowing new members to have the chance to compete as well.

“I like being able to put my knowledge to the test in a competitive sense…I plan on sticking with it for the rest of my time at WEGO,” sophomore Jacob Benitez said.