Democracy Dies in Darkness

Whitman holds off Walter Johnson for county gymnastics crown

Vikings make it a three-peat in a meet that is the de facto state title contest.

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The Whitman gymnastics team celebrates its third straight Montgomery County championship. (Sam Jane/The Washington Post)
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Less than a point separated Walt Whitman and Walter Johnson before the final event of Tuesday’s Montgomery County gymnastics championship. Yet only three scorekeepers knew the score entering each team’s last performance.

Whitman’s Marisa Halvorson walked over to the scorers’ table to talk with her mother, who was tracking the score.