Just Treble places second again

The show choirs and color guard closed their seasons strong.

Jay County High School’s Just Treble capped its competition schedule Saturday with a third consecutive runner-up finish, taking the No. 2 spot at the Columbia City Cup. Patriot Edition placed third while the school’s color guard was sixth in its division at the Indiana High School Color Guard Association Week 2 State Event at Mount Vernon.

Competing in Treble Division – Tier II, Just Treble earned second place behind Viking Volume of Huntington North. Jasmine Esparza was honored as the best soloist.

It was the third runner-up finish in a row for the group, which was also second at the Churubusco Show Choir Invitational the previous weekend and the Huntington North Midwest Showcase on March 1. (It took first place Feb. 15 at the Kenton Cup.)

Patriot Edition was second in the Mixed Division – Tier II preliminaries before placing third in the finals behind the first-place Accents of Avon and second-place Varsity Singers of Huntington North. It also won the Andrea Beck Spirit Award.

The group finished third three times this season and was also the runner-up at Churubusco.

Jay County’s winter guard scored 69.48 points for sixth place in the Regional A Class – Wilhoit Division at the state event Saturday. The group had the 15th-highest score overall out of 38 groups in competition.

Bartholomew Consolidated won the division and had the highest score overall at 80.7.