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Sandy Creek OCAY League team earns third in first competition

October 11th, 2019 by Brandon Wood, Public Relations

Sandy Creek's team after earning third place at the recent OCAY League competition.

Sandy Creek's Oswego County Academic Youth (OCAY) League team took home third place in the first event of the 2019-20 season.

The first event, called Lit Pitch, challenged participants to create a story idea for a young adult book and then pitch their idea to a panel of judges who were acting as publishers.

Sandy Creek's third-place team consisted of Jessica Graham, Emma Halsey, Deanna Hathway, Abigail Lantry, Emma McDougal, Hailey McNitt, Alexia Phillips and Emily Ward.

Each team needed to create a book cover, a story synopsis and character portrait to support their story idea. In addition to the story pitch presentation, each team had to battle head-to-head in a variety of other mini-challenges including an author word scramble, a rotating Scrabble game and various literary-themed quizzes.