Fifty-one students representing fourteen teams were present for Huntsville's first scholastic team tournament on Saturday, October 26, 2002, at the Brahan Springs Recreation Center. The tournament was sponsored by the Huntsville Chess Club and Directed by Gerald Larson. Assistants were David Campbell, Bert Gower, Chris Laskey, Bill Melvin, and Jerry Wheeler.

The Whitesburg Middle School team of Miles Melvin, Aarianne Abdallahi, Ben Konantz, and Michael Holt narrowly captured first place on tie-breaks over Huntsville Middle School represented by Scott Seitz, Huw Smith, Trevor Gant, and Hughston Bradley. Third place in the K-12 section was Randolph with 3 match points represented by Jason Hon, Sami Ahmed, Grant Alexander, and David Bailey.

The hotly contested K-6 section was won by Hampton Cove Elementary consisting of Zak Zoller, Alex Campbell, Will Bradley, and Edward Honicker on tiebreaks over Weatherly Heights Elementary consisting of Alex Chen, Sherwin Chiu, Victor Cheng, and Bobby Copeland. Third place was awarded to Jones Valley Elementary team of Dave Praharaj, Sivan Nanda, Sidharth Nanda, and Armon Pourhassani. Sivan is only 5 years old and did a great job on second board.

A well deserved first place trophy in the primary section was awarded to the Hampton Cove team of Blake Zoller, Sarah Campbell, A. J. Linder, and Collin Parker. This team of 3rd graders competed against the K-6 and K-12 teams winning 3 match points!

	PHOTOS

K-12

Board	Name	School	Score
1	Miles Melvin	Whitesburg Middle	5
2	Aarianne Abdollahi	Whitesburg Middle	5
3	Grant Alexander	Randolph	4
4	Hughston Bradley	Huntsville Middle	4
4	David Bailey	Randolph	4

K-6

Board	Name	School	Score
1	Zak Zollar	Hampton Cove	4
1	Dave Praharaj	Jones Valley	4
2	Sherwin Chiu	Weatherly Heights	3
2	Zachary Deca	Chapman	3
3	Will Bradley	Hampton Cove	4
3	Victor Cheng	Weatherly Heights	4
4	Bobby Copeland	Weatherly Heights	5

K-3

Board	Name	School	Score
1	Blake Zoller	Hampton Cove	3
2	Sara Campbell	Hampton Cove	11/2
3	A. J. Linder	Hampton Cove	2
4	Collin Parker	Hampton Cove	21/2