Once again, Trinity Mock Trial will send an outstanding trial team to AMTA’s Opening Round Championship Series. This past weekend Trinity sent two teams to the Boston College Regional site, where both squads faced stiff competition. The American Mock Trial Association (AMTA) hosts Regional sites all over the country each year in February. The twenty-two other teams that were also assigned to the Boston Regional included the well-respected programs of Tufts University, Yale University, Wellesley College, and Boston University. All of the teams at Boston were vying for eight bids to the Philadelphia Opening Round Championship Series. The top eight teams out of the weekend’s competition would be given an opportunity to work towards the National Championship, which will be held in Orlando, Florida this year.
In the first round, Trinity’s A team faced our NESCAC sister school, Amherst College. Trinity came out of the round winning both ballots. In the second round Trinity A again took both ballots from the host school, Boston College. Going into the second day as the highest ranked team in the tournament, Trinity A was matched against Boston University in the third round. It was a split round; Trinity A lost its first and only ballot of the weekend to BU by a single point. In the final round Trinity A competed against Tufts University, tying one ballot and winning the other. The final score for Trinity A is 6 wins, 1 loss, and 1 tie; this put the team as the fourth place seed in the tournament. Joining Trinity A in Philadelphia on March 15th are Yale, BU, Tufts, Wellesley, and BC.