Mid-Atlantic Regional Lights Up Northeast
Mid-Atlantic Regional Lights Up Northeast
The University of Delaware will play host to 26 bands from along the East Coast at Saturday’s 2018 BOA Mid-Atlantic Regional Championship.
The University of Delaware will play host to 26 bands from along the East Coast at Saturday’s 2018 BOA Mid-Atlantic Regional Championship. This weekend marks BOA’s return to the Mid-Atlantic region after last year's in Newark, DE on October 7.
Six of the top 10 finishers from 2016’s event in Newark will return this weekend, including the event’s reigning champion, Trumbull (CT) as well as the 2017 regional champion, Norwin (PA). While Trumbull didn’t compete at BOA Grand Nationals a year ago, its indoor color guard won a WGI Scholastic World silver medal, and its indoor percussion program was a finalist in WGI’s Scholastic Open division.
Trumbull will be joined this weekend by one fellow Connecticut band, Danbury. Not far behind Trumbull in 2016, James Madison (VA) will be the only returning top-three finisher this weekend.
At 2016’s event, things were close between Brick Memorial (NJ) and Spring-Ford (PA), the latter of which has won back-to-back titles in Pennsylvania’s Cavalcade of Bands circuit.
Norwin’s color guard program earned 15th in Scholastic World at the WGI World Championships this past spring. The band earned first place in the prelims round of last weeks Canton, Ohio event, before falling to second behind Kiski Area (VA) in the finals.
Norwin performing at the 2018 BOA Northeast Ohio Regional
As for Pennsylvania’s eastern neighbor, New Jersey is well-represented with a group of eight schools that includes Washington Township, Bridgewater-Raritan—2016’s sixth-place finisher—Elizabeth, Scotch Plains-Fanwood, John P. Steven, West Orange, Westfield, and the aforementioned Brick Memorial.
Making the trip all the way from North Carolina, Green Hope is fresh off of a finalist finish at last week’s South Carolina regional in Gaffney, South Carolina. Ohio’s Archbishop Alter will also make quite the trip, coming all the way from the Dayton Area in west Ohio.
The “DMV” (D.C.-Maryland-Virginia) area will be well-represented as well, with three Maryland bands and five Virginia bands competing in this weekend's regional.
Chantilly was a WGI Percussion Scholastic Open finalist as recently as 2014, and earned a bronze medal in “PSO” in 2013. Rounding out Saturday’s group of competitors, Victor and Arlington will both make the trip down from New York.
Tune in at 4:45 PM to watch the preliminary award ceremony and find out which bands will make it into Saturday night's regional finals!