MORAVIAN COLLEGE: Southern Lehigh Spartan Invitational Tournament           The Meyers Speech & Debate Team earned its first ever debate sweeepstakes championship Saturday, April 26 at the Southern Lehigh High School Spartan Invitational held at Moravian College in Bethlehem.           Meyers not only won the debate championship but also finished second overall, behind only Ridge High School of Basking Ridge, New Jersey, in the combined debate and speech competition among twenty three schools from Pennsylvania and New Jersey.            Meyers brought home two individual champions from the tournament: junior James Casey in extemporaneous speaking and sophomore Ted Kopec in Lincoln-Douglas debate.           The policy debate team of junior Jeff McGoldrick and sophomore Sarah Ancas placed second in the event upon losing in the final round to a team from Central York. Based on preliminary round performances, Ancas received the award for best policy debate speaker at the tournament and McGoldrick received the award as the second ranked speaker, among the twenty-six debaters competing in the event.           Meyers dominated the extemporaenous speaking event, taking three of the top four spots. In addition to the championship of James Casey, senior Alex Mertz finished third and freshman Shane Casey finished fourth.           In student congress, senior Maura Pape earned the third place award.           In oral interpretation, junior Caitlin Bolinger and senior Nick Wilson narrowly missed breaking into semi-finals in the event, which featured seven rooms of preliminary round competition. Bolinger tied to qualify for the elimination rounds, which tie was broken against her on reciprocals. Wilson finished two ranking points short of breaking.           Also competing for Meyers at the tournament were John Monahan and Sam Brand in policy debate; Tara Monahan in oral intrepretation; and, Megan Kopec and Alison McManus in dramatic duo.           This tourmament concluded the regular season of forensic competition for the Meyers Speech & Debate Team. On Sunday, May 4, 2003, the team will host its annual Family & Friends program at the library of the school, beginning at 2pm. The members of the team will demonstrate their respective events and will perform their material from the past season. The public is inivited and admission is free.           Nine members of the Meyers team have qualified to compete at the national championships of the National Catholic Forensic League over Memorial Day weekend in Arlington, VA.          ~Kim Borland