By the narrowest of margins, Burbank (of Chicago) won team honors at the Highland Park February Scholastic. Paced by Angel Nunez's perfect 5.0 score, Burbank outpointed local school Indian Trail 24.0 to 23.0.

In additional to Angel's score, Johnny Tapia, Jose Onofre and Sigifredo Martinez all contributed 4.0's. Adrian Onfre and Santiago Sotomayor added 3.5's to the Burbank tally. Burbank entered 14 in the event with the top six scores counting towards the team total.

84 players competed in five divisions at the February 6 event.

Atop the 11-player Advanced competition, Eli Elder was a perfect 5-for-5, outpointing four players with 3.0's: Ari Koyfman, Lucas Acquasaliente, Dylan McDonough and Julian Wang.

Alan Khesin had the high score in the K-1 section with 4.5. In second was Lucas Prainito with 4.0 and placing third was Trevor Chung.

First-timer Dylan Johnson's 4.5 did the trick in the Grades 2-3 division, ahead of a four-pack with 4.0.

Aforementioned Angel Nunez had the lone 5.0 in the Grades 4-5 competition, ahead of his Burbank teammate Jose Onofre who scored 4.0 as did Teddy Brennan and Ilya Rivkin.

In Grades 6-8, Shrijan Murahdharan was a perfect 5.0, ahead of the Burbank pair Johnny Tapia and Sigifredo Martinez who both posted 4.0's.