Haines Glacier Bards competitors at state championships. From left to right: Kayla Cone, Willa Stuart, Selby Long, Aimee Lahr, Maddox Rogers and Colin Aldassy. (Photo courtesy of Maddox Rogers)

Haines sophomore Maddox Rogers’ solo pantomime performance about a cowboy duel took the top spot at the state 2024 Debate, Drama and Forensics Championships in Anchorage. 

Rogers developed the piece — a short comedy of errors about a standoff in which “one of the cowboys keeps…