Sharks 5 - St. Augustine’s College edges DPS International

St. Augustine’s College, Cape Coast, and Dehli Private School(DPS), Tema, gave fans their monies worth as they put out an A1 display in the second contest of Round 16.

This Senior Sharks 5 contest deserves a standing ovation for the extraordinary dexterity with which contestants acquitted themselves.

There are certainly not enough superlatives to describe the performance of these two teams in this dicey encounter.

To begin with, DPS are old customers of The Sharks Quiz, and have distinguished themselves at both the Juniors and Seniors.

On the other hand, St. Augustine's College's credo is simple-"action nkotsee”, to wit, nothing but action.

And on the back of their 2^nd runner-up position from Sharks Season 4, action is what St. Augustine's College(Augusco) delivered in this contest.

The contest though could have gone either way on a different day as there was little to choose between the two.

Augusco in the end won this contest by a hair's breadth to keep their hopes of annexing the coveted trophy alive.

Round 1

St. Augustine's kick-started this round and it was obvious they wanted to have a smooth take-off.

They got fifty(50) points from their efforts.

Wary of the threat posed by St. Augustine's College, DPS knew they must do better or have themselves to blame.

Indeed, the sixty(60) points they got cannot be taken for granted under any circumstance.

Round 2

Sylvester made an entry to swap places with Marvin as the contest switched gears into the realm of Reading, Writing and Arithmetic.

Senior Sharks Season 5 may never witness such first class display in Round 2 like this Augusco vrs. DPS contest.

Refreshingly, all the contestants contributed their quota to their respective schools.

And it showed in the high scores both teams ended with- seventy(70) of which went to Augusco while

seventy-five(75) went DPS.

Round 3

Augusco came back from the recess reinvigorated and resurgent.

The espirit de corps amongst the boys was especially commendable as they worked shoulder to shoulder to deliver a string of successful answers.

Augusco was so slick with the buzzers that even though DPS appeared to have some of the answers ready, their buzzers were effectively nullified.

DPS had earlier effected a substitution but the idea behind the introduction of Chatainya ended up being of little consequence..

End of round results showed another high score of seventy(70) points for Augusco.

With fifteen(15) points, however, DPS now had a tall order rowing against the strong current of the Bakaano river from whence Augusco came.

Round 4

By the end of Round 3, St. Augustine's had this contest firmly under their control, but the contest was not over until it was over.

This is the One-on-one round. Here we go!

English Sharks were Antwi and Danielle for St. Augustine's and DPS respectively.

Danielle took the first question but her second answer, whether option B or D was inadmissible.

Math Sharks were Ezekiel and Raj for St. Augustine's College and DPS respectively.

Raj let out a roar of delight when he got two questions correctly for twenty(20) points to leave Ezekiel confounded.

The importance of those twenty(20) points was not lost on Raj at all.

Science Sharks were Osborn and Chatainya for St. Augustine's and DPS respectively.

Osborn was on point with his first answer but he missed the second question to which Chatainya had no clue.

Kwabena was DPS' last hope of salvaging this contest, with the proviso that he gets all two questions correct.

He faced off with Social Literacy Shark, Marvin, from St. Augustine's College.

Kwabena brought DPS close to a tie-breaker contest when he took the first identification of Ghanaian-born American comic, Michael Blackson, correctly.

He made another bold attempt at the second question but sadly, he was miles off.

At the end of Round 4, St. Augustine's College-ten(10) points, DPS- forty(40) points.

This is how the final scores looked like: St. Augustine's College had two hundred(200) points while DPS had one hundred and ninety(190) points.

Augusco were through with a narrow win, but even they would admit that DPS gave them a run for their money.

We doff our hats to both schools...bravoooo!!!

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