The Wrangell team in the annual Salvation Army Bible Bowl captured first place at the state level this month, the third year in a row the squad led the state.
Wrangell won the national competition last year — the first time ever — and will try for a repeat in June in Los Angeles, said Capt. Chase Green of the Wrangell Salvation Army.
“Hopefully, we’ll bring home the repeat,” he said.
“There is more opposition,” Green said. “People want to beat them,” he said of the six-member Wrangell team.
The state competition quizzed competitors on all 24 chapters of The Gospel of Luke this year.
Wrangell scored about 59,000 points to second-place Klawock’s 47,000, he said. The Alaska Bible Bowl was held in Klawock this year, on April 12.
The Wrangell team is comprised of Clara and Everett Edens, Kaiya and Amura Roher, Seth McMaster and Arabella Nore, Green said.
Damon Roher coached the squad again this year. He is well familiar with the event — he was a Bible Bowl competitor more than a decade earlier.
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