Mill Valley Starts the Year out Right!

Parker Sumwalt and Gregory Reese, Jr

In the first chess tournament of the 2007-2008 season, at the Schroeder YMCA, Mill Valley started the year out right.

Competing in the K-6 division, in a 5-round event, Mill Valley (which only goes through 4th grade) took home both the team and the individual first place trophies!

In the individual K-6 division, Gregory Reese, Jr., took home the first place trophy with 4.5 points, earning a draw against the very tough Parker Sumwalt (who finished in 2nd place with 4.0 points). Sam Gorectke took 3rd place on tie-breaker, also with 4.0 points. Other Mill Valley kids to place well included Brian Schroeder (3.0, 7th place), Jorin McGuire (3.0, 8th place), Chris Tillson (3.0, 12th place), and Nick Filler (2.0, 16th place).

In the team competition for K-6, Mill Valley took the first place trophy with 13.5 points (Greg, Brian, Jorin and Chris) over the very solid Magellan Day School team, who took 2nd place with 11.0 points.

Thumbs up from Brian at his own YMCA!

It was a great way to start the season for the amazing Mill Valley Knights! "Now we have only 59 more trophies to go to get 61 and beat last season's total of 60!" said Greg Reese, Sr., the Mill Valley Coach.

For a full listing of results, see the link below: http://www.wisconsinscholasticchess.org/websource/web/results/2007-08-18-ymca.pdf