11.   A TALENTED teenager is through to the national finals of a top competition for electric pianos.

12.   A TEAM of Darlington schoolgirls are on their way to the national finals of a public speaking competition.

13.   Both students have qualified for the national finals in London next month.

14.   Darlington College has never had a winner in the national finals but course leader Alan Brookfield thinks this could be the lucky year.

15.   Armstrong has been here for the Chevy Trucks national finals for mountain bikes.

16.   At the national finals, he was second.

17.   Big things were expected of the talented young all-American who that season had led Duke to the national finals, where it lost to Purdue.

18.   But Mayfield made it to the national finals as a calf-roper once.

19.   From there, top competitors advance to the state and national finals.

20.   His seniors team has made it to the national finals for two years in a row.