Mount Pleasant Junior High School 7th and 8th graders competed in the annual Middle School District UIL Academic Meet on Saturday, January 27 in Sulphur Springs and brought home multiple medals and ribbons.

In Chess Puzzle Solving, Elijah Flanagan (8th grade) placed 1st and Heymar Rivera (7th grade) was 5th.

In Ready Writing, Maisy Mathews (8th grade) placed 3rd and Kaiser Sheppard (7th grade) placed 5th.

In Oral Reading-Prose, Grace Berry (8th grade) placed 5th and Kelsie Shelton (7th grade) was 6th.

Seventh grader Sage Jordan placed 2nd place in Editorial Writing.

And eighth grader Mario Hernandez placed 5th in Science.

Photo: Mount Pleasant Junior High School UIL Meet medalists