<p>Carroll Talking Saints Forensics Wins 20th Consecutive Northwest Championship
February 02, 2010</p>
<p>The Carroll College Talking Saints forensics team swept to 100-point victory over Boise State at the Pacific University Scheller Forensics Tournament, clinching its 20th consecutive Northwest Forensics Conference Championship. Carroll has not lost a regional championship tournament since October 1990, a string of nearly 50 tournaments. Carroll earned a Gold Program Award for its victory, the highest recognition in the conference. Boise State University also received a Gold Program Award for yearlong success.
"Boise State has one of its best teams ever," said Carroll coach Brent Northup, "so we were very proud to share the gold program award with them. Our new team members were sensational this weekend and that made all the difference."</p>
<p>Carroll first year students won 26 awards. Freshmen Andy Burton of Billings, Mont., and Chris Axtman of Portland, Ore., tied for second for the Orv Iverson award for "rookie of the year" in the region. Burton and Axtman reached quarters of junior debate. Burton placed third in novice extemp and second in novice prose. Axtman was first in novice prose and first in junior extemp. </p>
<p>Freshman Ally Bushnell of Helena, Mont., placed first in junior prose, first in novice impromptu and second in novice extemp. Shelby DeMars of Dillon, Mont., was second in novice impromptu and third in novice prose. Freshman Tanner Van Wyck of Nampa, Idaho, and junior Morgan Bell of Glasgow, Mont., both won four awards, their career-best performances.</p>
<p>Other first place winners included sophomore Amy Dixon of Billings, who won first in junior informative speaking, first speaker in junior debate and placed second in junior parliamentary debate with sophomore partner Casey Almas of Helena. Sophomore Kaitlyn Lamb of Whitehall, Mont., won first in junior persuasion.</p>
<p>Carroll swept the top four places in two divisions of prose interpretation and dominated impromptu and extemporaneous speaking. The winning streak of Carroll's top open debate team, Amy McNulty of Helena and Kirby Brooke of Bozeman, Mont., was broken with an octafinal loss, but they have been invited to a prestigious round robin competition in San Diego this week, reserved for the top 16 teams in the nation out of hundreds that compete.</p>
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