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Pleasant Vy. captures first at Sixth Sense competition

Published March 28. 2025 02:45PM

The 37th Annual Sixth Sense Competition was held on March 18, 19, and 20 at Tamaqua Middle School.

Teams of six students competed in this meeting of the minds to test their scholar ability from eight participating schools.

Jim Thorpe, Lehighton, Northern Lehigh, Northwestern Lehigh, Palmerton, Panther Valley, Pleasant Valley, and Tamaqua sent representatives to compete for their school.

Over the three days, 15 rounds were held to determine the winner in this double elimination competition. Pleasant Valley captured first place by defeating Palmerton in round 14.

Round scores were as follows:

• Round 1 Northern Lehigh (50) vs Northwestern Lehigh (46)

• Round 2 Pleasant Valley (40) vs Tamaqua (19)

• Round 3 Lehighton (59) vs Panther Valley (14)

• Round 4 Palmerton (42) vs Jim Thorpe (37)

• Round 5 Northern Lehigh (36) vs Pleasant Valley (60)

• Round 6 Lehighton (46) vs Palmerton (38)

• Round 7 Northwestern Lehigh (47) vs Tamaqua (38)

• Round 8 Panther Valley (52) vs Jim Thorpe (52) Tie Breaker first team to score 3 more points PV (55) vs JT (53)

• Round 9 Palmerton (48) vs Northwestern Lehigh (42)

• Round 10 Northern Lehigh (33) vs Panther Valley (42)

• Round 11 Pleasant Valley (61) vs Lehighton (32)

• Round 12 Palmerton (60) vs Panther Valley (31) — Panther Valley, fourth place

• Round 13 Lehighton (32) vs Palmerton (56) — Lehighton, third place

• Round 14 Pleasant Valley (62) vs Palmerton (41) — Palmerton, second place, and Pleasant Valley, first place.

Pleasant Valley captured first place in the Sixth Sense competition From left are: Nadia Gauronsky, advisor, Victor Chheng, David Goble, Quinn Randis, Sophia Reed, Nathan May and David Wasieczko. CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS
Palmerton finished in second place in the Sixth Sense competition. From left are: Advisor Bill Zeky, Jonathan Bieling, Jackson George, Makayla Miata, Sebastian Parra, Nathan Shafer, Charlie Wismer and Jaclyn Ivancich, advisor.
Lehighton finished third in the Sixth Sense competition. From left are: Advisor Kimberly Lusch, Katherine Diehl, Castiel Fenoff, Daniel Hawk, Sebastian Hudak, Reid Lichtenwalner, Andrew Neid, and Jennifer Kunkel, advisor.
Panther Valley finished fourth in the Sixth Sense competition. From left are: Zoe Alabovitz, Makenna Fisher, Elliana John, Jon Brennan, Joseph Paulus, Liam Tiedeman, and Jacqui Morgans, advisor.