Students from Cedar River Middle School, Tahoma Middle School and Tahoma Junior High participated in the annual MathCounts Regional Competition hosted by Tahoma High School and the Professional Society of Engineers on Jan. 9.

75 Students in grades 6 through 8 from 10 area schools competed in the competition.

Cedar River fielded its first team which was made up of Sala Shong, Ali Smith and sisters Jessica and Elyse Goulet.

Tahoma Middle School came out in full force with a team and individual competitors, their largest turn out ever. Members of the team included Hitesh Boinpally, Skyler Preedy, Emily Clark, and Laena Ting. Individual competitors were Garrett Yatteau, Connor Webb, Daniel Prakahbar, Courtney DeBord, Sarah Shear Starbird and Marius Falconeer.

The team of Carissa Hibbert, Marissa Magana, Clayne Williams and Rhiana Martin from Tahoma Junior High finished second. They will compete for the state title at Microsoft in Redmond on March 23.

TJH also had four individual competitors, Noelle Merclich, Daniel Prabahkar, Layne West and Malina Rossow.

The Tahoma teams were coached by Tahoma High teacher Malinda Shirley.