Congratulations to the Varsity Chess Team. They won the annual Toms River Elks Chess Tournament held on Sunday (1/19). They entered the 4 round competition as the #1 seed and had to defeat both the 2nd seeded (St. Joseph HS) and the 3rd seeded (CBA) teams in the final 2 rounds en route to the title. The team was led by tournament MVP Jason Yan. The other players on the varsity team were: Aditya Baireddy, Abhinav Ramidi, Justin Guo and Alexander Postovskiy.

The High Tech JV team #2 consisting of Hazem Zaky, Ivan Wong, Ayush Pathy, Andrew Gerchak and Albert Dong finished with an impressive record of 3 and 1 to earn 4th place.

The High Tech JV team #1 consisting of Andy Zhang, Andrew Eng, Varun Tupuri, Arsh Singhal and Kyle Dimaggio finished with a record of 1 and 3 but they almost defeated both CBA and St Joseph HS.

Congratulations to all the players on a job well done!!!