Ghana Senior Excessive Faculty now holds the bragging rights as the brand new champions of the Goil Plc Northern Zonal Championship of the Nationwide Science and Maths Quiz.
In a dramatic contest for tutorial supremacy, the varsity beat their metropolis rivals, Tamale SHS and Higher West’s St. Francis Xavier Seminary to clinch the final word title.
The environment on the GNAT Corridor in Tamale was characterised by sheer rivalry between the 2 Tamale-based faculties boasting to be the overlords of the north.
The 2 faculties had met within the semi-final stage the place Tamale SHS handed GHANASCO a painful defeat.
However qualifying as the highest runner-up from the semi-finals, GHANASCO was decided to revenge their nemesis on the grand finale.
The ultimate contest proved to be a troublesome one for the lions of TAMASCO as they did not sustain with the comfy tempo they’d begun with at the start of the competition.
Consumed by a fervent need to win and make historical past, the boys from GHANASCO appeared unperturbed after they trailed Tamale SHS on the finish of the primary spherical with a four-point distinction.
The college overturned the competition within the second spherical to guide with 6 factors whereas TAMASCO and Xavescan have been pegged at 23-points every.
St. Francis Xavier stored its margin between the GHANASCO however opposite to the courageous pace of their totem (lions), TAMASCO barely may sustain with the momentum of the 2 faculties.
Tamale SHS ended the third spherical with 24 factors, as their contenders, Ghana SHS and St. Francis Xavier, accrued 42 and 36 factors respectively.
At this level, the TAMASCANS have been troubled and had already given up on their quest for a second trophy.
Within the remaining spherical, the varsity nonetheless managed to reply two of the riddles accurately however that couldn’t garner them sufficient factors to shut the margin.
Wild cheers erupted inside the 4 partitions of the GNAT Corridor in Tamale after GHANASCO answered a riddle to increase their lead affirming their stance to be the winners of the competition.
On the finish of the competition, Ghana SHS secured 45 factors whereas St. Francis Xavier Seminary got here second with 36 factors with Tamale SHS taking the third place with 30 factors.
GHANASCO commenced their journey to the trophy from the regional qualifiers stage after they have been knocked out on the one-eighth stage in 2023 of the nationwide competitors.
They’re optimistic of a good masterful efficiency on the nationwide match as they got down to change into the debut nationwide winners for the 5 Northern areas.