Ten years of chess commemorated with “The Endgame”

  All four tied in points, therefore, each received a $50 scholarship to be paid to their college.
  6th-8th grades
 Individual
o First Place: Asher Lippe, Canyon Middle School (Lippe also had the only perfect score at the tournament, winning all five rounds.) o Second Place: Jacob Ybarra, Pieper Ranch Middle School o Third Place: Henry Ferris, PRMS  Team 6th-8th grades: PRMS, coached by A’ndrea Fisher
First Place in Overall Campus Participation
 Elementary
o CLHS tournament: Startzville Elementary
o SVHS tournament: Indian Springs Elementary
 Middle School
o CLHS tournament: Mountain Valley Middle
o SVHS tournament: Spring Branch Middle  High School
o CLHS tournament: CLHS
o SVHS tournament: CLHS Kindergarten through 2nd Grade Team
 CLHS and SVHS tournaments - Oak Creek Elementary – coached by Sheila Pfeffer o 2nd Place – Justin Barger, OCES
o 3rd Place – Samuel Butler, ISES
 SVHS tournament
o 1st Place – Justin Barger, OCES+
o 2nd Place – Iyas Syed, Specht Elementary
o 3rd Place – Samuel Butler, ISES

Third through 5th Grade
Team
 CLHS tournament: Rebecca Creek Elementary – coached by Sheldon Vamper  SVHS tournament: Specht Elementary – coached by Stephanie Arnold

Individual
 CLHS tournament
o 1st Place – Omar Houston, SES o 2nd Place – Jaxon Ziemba, RCES
o 3rd Place – Paxton Skinner, RCES

 SVHS tournament
o 1st Place – Jake Wadle, RCES o 2nd Place – Colin Cabrera, SES
o 3rd Place – Omar Houston, SES

Sixth through 8th Grade
Team
 CLHS tournament: Smithson Valley Middle – coached by Melissa Monroe
 SVHS tournament: SBMS - coached by Chrissy Trevino
Individual
 CLHS tournament
o 1st place – Finnley Greissinger, SVMS o 2nd Place – Tessa Schroeder, SVMS
o 3rd Place – Brandon Mendoza-Flores, SBMS
 SVHS tournament
o 1st Place – Thomas Chick, SBMS o 2nd Place – Finnley Greissinger, SVMS
o 3rd Place – Asher Lippe, Canyon Middle

Ninth through 12th Grade
Team
 CLHS tournament: CLHS – coached by Charles Van Houten and Ben Ceyanes
 SVHS tournament: Pieper High School – coached by Kara Cecil Individual
 CLHS tournament
o 1st Place – Luke Schroeder, SVHS
o 2nd Place – Devin Zook, SVHS
o 3rd Place – Erick Ortiz Salgado, CLHS
 SVHS tournament
o 1st Place – Massimo Meneses, PHS
o 2nd Place – Mason Bowlin, CLHS
o 3rd Place – Luke Schroeder, SVHS

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ComalISD3rdTieEndgameHS.jpeg – During the final tournament of the year, called the
Endgame, four students tied for third place in the 9th-12th-grade division. Pictured from
left is Zachary Ellis, Michael Shenouda, Erick Ortiz Salgada and Benjamin Kelemen.
ComalISDCLHSTopTeamEndgameHS.jpeg – The team from Canyon Lake High School
took the top team honor during the final tournament of the year, the Endgame.
ComalISDPRMSTopTeamEndgameMS.jpeg – the Pieper Ranch Middle School team
took the top team honor during the final tournament of the year, the Endgame, for the
6th-8th-grade division.
ComalISDDoaneCLHS1stEndgameHS.jpeg – Canyon Lake High School student Triton
Doane was the first-place winner at the Endgame tournament for the 9th-12th-grade
division.
ComalISDLippeCMS1stEndgameMS.jpeg – Canyon Middle School student Asher Lippe
was the first-place winner at the Endgame tournament for the 6th-8th-grade division.
ComalISDMenesesPHS2ndTiedEndgameHS.jpeg – Pieper High School student
Massimo Meneses was the second-place winner at the Endgame tournament for the
9th-12th-grade division.
ComalISDYbarraPRMS2ndEndgameMS.jpeg – Pieper Ranch Middle School student
Jacob Ybarra was the second-place winner at the Endgame tournament for the 6th-8th-
grade division.
ComalISDFerrisPRMS3rdEndgameMS.jpeg – Pieper Ranch Middle School student
Henry Ferris placed third in the 6th-8th-grade division at the Endgame tournament.
ComalISDChessPfefferOCESTeam.jpeg – Oak Creek Elementary students in the
kindergarten through second-grade category came in first place at all four chess
tournaments hosted by Comal ISD this year. Pictured here are team members and
coach Sheila Pfeffer including Montserrat Hernandez, Justin Barger, Lennox Barahona
Brischke, Lucas Alvarez, Hudson Warner, Caitlynn Williams, Rylynn Venable, Rory
Martinez and Magnolia Terrell.
ComalISDChessAlvarezOCES.jpeg – Oak Creek Elementary student Lucas Alvarez
took first place in the Canyon Lake High tournament for the K-2nd category.

ComalISDChessBargerOCES.jpeg – Oak Creek Elementary student Justin Barger took
first place in the SVHS tournament for the K-2nd category.
ComalISDChessRCES3-5Champions.jpeg – Rebecca Creek Elementary students in the
third through fifth-grade category came in first place at the CLHS tournament.
ComalISDChesssHoustonSES.jpeg – Specht Elementary student Omar Houston came
in first place for the third-fifth grade category at the CLHS tournament.
ComalISDChessWadle1stRCES.jpeg – Rebecca Creek Elementary student Jake Wadle
came in first place for the third-fifth grade category at the SVHS tournament.
ComalISDchessSBMS.jpeg – The Spring Branch Middle team took top honors in the
sixth-eighth-grade category at the SVHS tournament.
ComalISDChessGreissingerSVMS.jpeg – Smithson Valley Middle student Finnley
Greissinger came in first place in the sixth-eighth-grade category at the CLHS
tournament.
ComalISDChesssChickSBMS.jpeg – Spring Branch Middle student Thomas Chick
came in first place in the sixth-eighth-grade category at the SVHS tournament.
ComalISDChessCLHSTeam.jpeg – Canyon Lake High students took first place at the
CLHS tournament in the high school category.
ComalISDChessPHSTeam.jpeg – Pieper High students took first place at the SVHS
tournament in the high school category.
ComalISDChessMenesesPHS.jpeg – Pieper High student Massimo Meneses came in
first place in the high school category at the SVHS tournament.