Avon High School hands a big defeat to Elyria Catholic in scholastic games while Avon

AVON/AVON LAKE, Ohio – Avon High School pushes forward to become a quarter finalist in Lorain County’s Scholastic Games quiz show while Avon Lake High School students win a multitude of art awards in the Scholastics Art Exhibition.

Gold Key winners have been invited to a national awards ceremony at Carnegie Hall in New York City this summer. Silver medalists have been invited to attend virtual programming.

Avon High School

Avon High School joins seven other area schools with an equal status in the Scholastic Quiz Show Games: Amherst Steele, Firelands, Keystone, Lake Ridge Academy, Olmsted Falls, Sheffield Brookside and Vermilion.

The Avon defeat, however, was huge as Avon eliminated Elyria Catholic 380 to 90, staying ahead during the entire game.

Avon’s team included Nicholas Stamatis, P. J. Yug, and captain Mattthew Downing, who won the program’s “Standout Scholar Award” presented each week by judges to the student “determined to have contributed the most” to his or her team. The honor includes a $50 award. It was Downing’s second honor this year.

The quiz show is in its 32nd year on WEOL radio. If Avon wins again this year, they will go home with a fifth trophy like those they won in 2009, 2016, 2017 and 2019.

The finals and the championship will take place next month on May 9, 16 and 23.

Area colleges and universities provide $1000 tuition credit awards for the participating high schools.

Avon Lake High School

Avon Lake art students did extremely well in this year’s Scholastics Art Exhibition.

The exhibit includes public, parochial and private middle and high schools as well as homeschoolers from Lorain, Erie and Huron counties.

Art teachers enter more than 1,200 original works of art from students each year. Professional judges then choose more than 500 pieces of art that were exhibited in the Lorain County Community College’s Stocker Art Center.

The majority of the awards are Gold Keys (17) or Silver Keys (11) and Honorable Mentions (69). The categories of art include architecture, ceramics and glass, comic art, design, digital, drawing and illustration, editorial cartoon, fashion design, jewelry, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, video game design and senior art portfolios.

In total there were 17 Gold Keys (highest honor), 11 Silver Keys and 69 Honorable mentions.

The awards (by category) included:

–Four Avon Lake High School students with a Senior Art Portfolio on exhibit: Vivian Duvall, Gold Key; Jade Parsons, Silver Key; and Maya Elliott and Lauren Hansborough, Honorable Mentions.

–Thirty-three students have Photography pieces in the exhibition. Six students received Gold Key awards in photography: Kate Baugh (three), Brynn Bondar, Elaina DesJardins, August Resar, Abigail Walsh, and Jordan West. Four students received Silver Key awards: Evan Balwani, Lauren Hansborough, Dan Kane and Sabrina Marsala.

Honorable Mention honors go to Evan Balwani (two), Nola Banks, Brooklan Benesh (two), Nate Buck (three), Stephanie Byczek, Samantha Cracas, Elaina DesJardins, Maggi Feit (two), Anthony Ferrari (three), Katya Genin, Kevin Hadchiti (three), Lauren Hansborough, Ashley Hubert, Kaitlyn Ingham, Laci Keith (four), Sabrina Marsala (three), Alan Martinez Vacca (three), Maggie Menz, Evelynn Powers, August Resar (three), Emma Schlabach (two), Abigail Walsh (two), and Jordan West (three).

–Eleven students have Digital art pieces in the exhibition: Two Gold Key winners are Abigail Davis and Vivian Duvall. Two Silver Key winners are Anthony Ferrari and Evelynn Powers. Seven students earned Honorable Mention honors: Mia Amicone, Brynn Bondar, Tori Farran, Nathan Jorgensen, Lila Krawiec, Hannah Malbasa, and Andrew Sarraino.

–Seven students have Painting pieces in the exhibition: Three Gold Key winners are Vivian Duvall, Audrey Falish and Jade Parsons. Ten Honorable Mention honors include Caitlin Allen (two), Vivian Duvall (two), Alyssa Kordish (four), and Jade Parsons (two).

–Four students have Ceramics and Glass pieces in the exhibition: Two Gold Key honors for Malik Asad. Three Silver Key honors for Kaila Ungar and Maria Zuk (two). One student earned Honorable Mention, Malik Asad.

–Four students have Drawing and Illustration pieces in the exhibition: Vivian Duvall earned a Gold Key. Renee Roberge earned a Silver Key. Honorable Mentions honors go to Lily Good (two) and Renee Roberge.

–Larysa Kravec received an Honorable Mention for a Sculpture piece.

–Special congratulations to junior Brynn Bondar and senior Vivian Duvall for winning the prestigious American Vision Award.