Stockdale High School’s Gatz Nieblas did not have time on Feb. 2 to contemplate who had the best chance of winning the NFL Super Bowl the next day. Not being distracted paid off. Stockdale High School received the Claude W. Richardson perpetual trophy as the overall team winner of the 28th annual Kern County Academic Decathlon held on Feb. 2 at Bakersfield College. Approximately 200 students from 19 high schools participated. The theme for the event nationwide was The Civil War. Nieblas had another name for the Decathlon, “the Intellectual Super Bowl.” Stockdale outscored Bakersfield High, which finished second and Cesar Chavez High from Delano, which finished third. Stockdale will represent Kern County in the California Academic Decathlon scheduled March 7-10 in Sacramento. The state winner advances to the national finals April 30-May 3 in Garden Grove, CA. More