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The New York Mills junior high knowledge bowlers had one team receive a special award for the most correct English Questions at a recent contest in Fergus Falls. This group was also the highest place team of the three that NY Mills sent to Fergus Falls. In the first meet, the above team ended in fourth place, one away from third. The other two teams bounced around quite a bit through the question rounds and did well for it being those trivia specialists first meet. The team has been practicing and has the most members in recent memory with nearly 20 students showing up for the junior high season. In the first meet the teams competed against  Park Christian, Parkers Prairie, Henning and Wheaton. Ella H. said in her knowledge bowl debut, “It was fun, and exciting, and we met a bunch of new people. I am looking forward to our next couple meets.” Lilja P thoughts were, “The first meet solidified our teamwork and helped us build the program. It is fun having so many new people on the team.