The Harvard Undergraduate Math Club sponsored their first annual high school math contest on Saturday.

Over 200 students from Massachusetts and Connecticut participated in both team and individual events.

The contest, co-sponsored by the MIT Math Club, was held in conjunction with contests at Rice University and Washington University in St. Louis. The results of both the local contest and the simultaneous contests at Rice and Washington Universities were compared over the Internet.

The overall winner of the local contest was Lexington High School, which took home a trophy for their success in the competition.

According to the Math Club's communications chair, Lisa J. Powell '01, Lexington High School's results were also the best of all three contests.

"They [Lexington High School] also won the national contest. Local students dominated all of the areas at the national level," Powell said.

College Bowl Wins Region Scott M. Brown

The top-ranked Harvard College Bowl team smoked to a decisive victory Saturday at the New England and Canadian Maritime regional championships.

The win marks HCB's second straight year of domination in Region 1 and its fourth region victory in six years.

Harvard advanced swiftly towards the final, winning each of its seven round-robin matches by a margin of 85 points or more before shutting out MIT in a best-of-three semifinal.

The team went on to defeat Dartmouth in a best-of-three final round with scores of 260-150 and 320-195. The win avenged a playoff loss to Dartmouth that cost Harvard the 1994 regional title.

Saturday's victory grants HCB a spot among sixteen finalists who will compete at The College Bowl, Inc.'s National Championship Tournament, to be held in April at the University of Texas in Dallas. Harvard won the national title in 1995.

Harvard College Bowl team members are: J.J. Todor '95/31. (Captain), William Jay '98, Vandana Madhavan '98, Matthew Caywood '99, and Matthew Carter '99.

National Academic Quiz Tournaments, Inc. currently ranks Harvard's A & B squads first and second in the nation, respectively.