Nathaniel Donahue’s streak of top three finishes in the National Points Race continued at Harvard last weekend, as the North Carolina extemper won his second National Points Race tournament of the year. The victory gives Donahue one hundred points in the National Points Race and provides further distance between he and the rest of the field. Curan Mehra of Scarsdale High School in New York, who won Yale earlier this season and finished sixth at the Montgomery Bell Extemp Round Robin in January, placed second. Shikha Garg of Plano Senior High School in Texas placed third in her third final round appearance at a National Points Race tournament this year. The other extemper in the final round that was making a multiple final round finish in a National Points Race tournament was Peter Vogel of Ridge High School. Vogel took third at Yale earlier this year and took fifth last weekend.
All of the elimination round participants earned TOC bids and all of the extempers who made the quarter-final round and beyond earned National Points Race points. The National Points Race will be updated tomorrow to reflect the results of Harvard and the California Invitational.
Here are the full results. A .pdf of the results can be found at the tournament website:
Champion: Nathaniel Donahue (Durham Academy, North Carolina)
2nd: Curan Mehra (Scarsdale High School, New York)
3rd: Shikha Garg (Plano Senior High School, Texas)
4th: Henry Chapman (Millburn High School, New Jersey)
5th: Peter Vogel (Ridge High School, New York)
6th: Sam Reynolds (Mount Lebanon Senior High School, Pennsylvania)