Stockdale High School culminated an undefeated Mock Trial season by emerging as the best among 17 county high school teams who competed in the 2007-08 Kern County Mock Trial Super Saturday championship final in Bakersfield's Kern County Superior Courts of California on Jan. 26. Stockdale went through four preliminary rounds of competition, covering three months, without a loss, finishing with wins over Centennial and then Liberty High in the final to win the championship. Winning the Mock Trial title is not new. Stockdale went into this year's competition having won the past 11 years. Leading the way for Stockdale were Kseniya Astakhova and Katie Denari, who were both named to the county's Honor Court. Astakhova is an attorney for the school's defense and prosecution teams, but began by playing the role of defendant in her freshman year. She was a witness her sophomore year. The past two years she has been in the chair to both defend and prosecute the defendant. After it was all over on Jan. 26, the judge in the final case commended Astakhova for having the tenacity of a bulldog as she relentlessly applied pressure to impeach witness testimony. More