Prempeh thrashes OWASS

In a quiz competition that was broadcast online for people all over the globe, Prempeh beat the Opoku Ware boys 96-88 to move on to the semi-final stage of this year's National Science & Maths Quiz.

It was a brilliant performance by the whole team. Our boys in their elegant green shirts never trailed in the competition and produced only two incorrect answers - a feat which is unprecedented. The boys stepped out of their room today enroute the premises of the quiz. And it was coincidental that OWASS and Prempeh were in the same building. So when they came out, the Quiz master of OWASS told our boys in a typical cowboy manner that, "you boys have been lucky you had a good draw and met only weak schools; or else you would have been eliminated by now." Out of courtesy, our diplomatic boys didn't utter a word. They showed the man the respect he deserved and walked off.

Inside the Assembly Hall, Senior Ebenezer Wireko, who was eager to provide the first ever commentary of such an event online, sat down with the contestants and read through the printout of Senior K. Oteng-Boateng's inspirational speech/interview at this site, showing them the salient points of the vital 5-page account of the famous 1996 victory. The part about how Prempeh came back from 5-point down to beat PRESEC was a great motivating lesson for them. Some OWASS oldboys from Legon actually became so inspired by that prempeh.org interview that they yearned for the power and beauty of the Prempeh experience, which their alma mater is so bereft of. According to our boys, the part that Oteng said "they beat OWASS convincingly" that year is what stimulated them.

However, the negative remarks the OWASS master has made appalled them to an extent that it became the principal incentive for them to punish the Santasi people. And what a punisher Louis turned out to be! He ensured that the OWAREANS who did not know the difference between messenger RNA (mRNA) and transfer RNA (tRNA) paid the appropriate prize in the final stages of the competition.

OWASS was trailing by a mere 3 points just before the last riddle. Amanfoo then got on their knees and started praying to the God of Sofoline. As soon as the preamble was said, Victor of OWASS pressed the bell to announce that he knows it all! Typical "ayisem." Suddenly the whole place became quite only for the boy in the cream shirt to answer "mRNA." The quizwoman said, "no." OWASS got it wrong!!! Amazing! These were the same OWASS boys that has been talking trash all week about how they "are going to collapse Prempeh." Their battle song was "Prempehfuo suro, Prempeh eho epopo" (Prempeh is scared, Prempeh folks are panicking). And yet these boys knew nothing about molecular biology.

OWASS would have indeed gotten 5 vital points from that to lead us 2 points and win it all. The woman (quiz mistress) had a difficult time calming Amanfoo down as the commentator for the website himself had his shirt taken off and in a jubilant mood. For about 10 minutes the place was so loud that we could not hear ourselves. Then suddenly the Prempeh boys relaxed and answered the last question with the answer, "tRNA"......CORRECT PREMPEH!!!! The OWASS boys started crying and the Akatakyie started leaving the room. We started singing the anthem: AMANFOO, ARISE AND SHINE. Only then did we realise that Prempeh had won by a score of 94-88. The OWAREANS didn't shake hands with our boys, but a wise old Okatakyie (which is rare in Ghana) came over to congratulate the boys. Prempeh has done it with HUMILITY and class, which will make Headmaster Owusu-Achiaw cry with joy, for his boys were truly fantastic.

Prempeh once again showed that we are the most well trained and disciplined people in the whole country. We did it, the only way Pearson, Clarke, Simms, Lewis, Osae, Atiemo, Sackey, Sekyere and Owusu-Achiaw thought us. How could OWASS win, when their Quizmaster leading them was so indisciplined? How could any school have such a man lead its team? Insulting a team of teenagers? Why couldn't he pick on someone his age, or leave his boys to do the talking? Given their consistent pattern of rowdiness over the 52 years of their existence, however, this behaviour is not surprising at all.

Dwobeng was in charge of the early rounds: with his impeccable English, he provided explanations for all the questions in round 2. Round 3 belonged to Richard, while Louis was unstoppable in round 4. It worked so perfectly, as if they stood by the same stage and rehearsed everything the night before. Which is why it was not surprising to see the same OWASS teacher - Mr. Jomah - get so sick that he left the place after the 4th round. Perhaps, then, we could even borrow the parting words of the Quiz mistress to console Mr. Jomah: "sorry Opoku Ware and let's see you well prepared next year."

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