Students from Odle Middle School participated in the state chess championships Saturday, April 12.

Seventh graders competed in an open category spanning grade seven through adult. Sixth graders competed within their grade level for individual trophies and in the grades 4-6 overall category.

Seven Odle sixth graders – Zachary Zhang, Andrew McKeehan, Lance McKeehan, Tara Reddy, Nikata Singh, Sanford Long, and Benjamin Mousseau – accumulated enough points for their performance to win the eighth place team trophy in the Grade 4-6 category.

Three of the students – Sanford Long, Zachary Zhang, and Benjamin Mousseau – finished among the top 20 sixth graders and brought home personal trophies for their performance.

Also, nine Odle Middle School students – Derek Zhang, Nathaniel Yee, Aditya Kannan, Shifa Somji, Jason Yang, Subham Behera, Dorian Clay, Rahul Sehgal and Gabriel Shen – participated in the state middle school championship, which is an individual competition with no team category. Dorian Clay won first place in the K-9U1300 section. In the Open section, three of the students placed in the top 15 finishes.