MBA will represent the CNMI in the national tournament in Phoenix, Arizona on May 5-7, 2011.
The other participating teams on Friday were Marianas High School, Rota High School, Saipan Southern High School, and Tinian High School.
With their attorney-coach Jennifer Dockter, the counsel for the judiciary and the Supreme Court administrator, MBA students received their championship plaque on Friday evening shortly after the daylong competition at the Guma’ Hustisia in Susupe.
The members of the winning team are Gino Benavente, Jodel Fernandez, Seong Jun Hwang, Se Young Hwang, Dong Hee Im, Hanbert Jeong, Chan Woo Lee, Manatsu Omori, Michael Sheu, and Han Sol Yu.
The Mount Carmel team is composed of Maria Kristina S. Balajadia, Kevin Harvey G. Bautista, Victor Cabrera, Lourence Camacho, Anne Gelika Elenzano, Andrea Manese, Mae Nakajima, Jimin Ryu, Anastasia Schweiger and Ginny Wu.
Their teacher-coach is Lourdes Mendiola, Board of Education member Galvin S. Deleon Guerrero served as volunteer, and Joseph LG. Taijeron was the attorney-coach.
The Rota High School was composed of Katelyn Alpino, Joycelynn Atalig, Maricel Atalig, Randee-jo Barcinas, Baybie Hocog, Mona Manglona, Maisie Lynne Mesngon, Mariana Quitugua and Anton Lee Salazar.
Donald Manglona and Tonica Barcinas served as teacher-coaches, while Steven Gardiner and Daniel Guidotti were the attorney-coaches.
The team from Saipan Southern High School consisted of Jan Kimberly T. Alcantara, James Hegarty Camacho, Crista Ching, Lallane Guiao, Joseph Jang, David Paek, Rachel Sumor and Leander Villagomez.
Teacher-coaches were Andrew J. Golden and Cheryl L. Indalecio, while Robert T. Torres and Gerald Russel served as attorney-coaches.
Tinian High School was composed of Jimuael Cabay, Shitong Cheng, Ervin Cruz, Mary Mendiola Hocog, Chloe Hofschneider, Chelsie Manglona, Claudette San Nicolas, Yun He Seo, Jaehoon Shin and Alisha Shrestha.
John Sutfin and Natasha Diaz-Pascua were the teacher-coaches, while Board of Education member Lucia Blanco-Maratita served as attorney-coach.
This year, the mock problem was the fictitious civil case of Palacios v. Oscar A. Romero Public High School.
Each participating school received the fictitious case file complete with witness statements, exhibits, rules of evidence, and an abbreviated law library.
During the competition, students portrayed the role of attorneys and witnesses and presented both sides of the case as plaintiff and defendant. The students were judged based on their knowledge of the evidence and ability to present a logical and persuasive case.
