Two Iolani School School teams defeated two Maryknoll School teams in the finals of a high school economics challenge, winning the competition for the fifth consecutive year.

As winners of the 2009 Island Insurance Companies Economics Challenge, the students will represent the state at the Council for Economic Education/Goldman Sachs Foundation Western Regional Competition in Los Angeles on April 27.

The competition here featured 177 students from private and public high schools.

Winners for the "David Ricardo" division were Iolani students Bobby Huang, Matthew Lum, Mark Grozen Smith, Tyler Tokunaga and Andrew Wu.

The winners of the "Adam Smith" division were Iolani students Rayfe Gaspar Asaoka, Melody Lindsay, David Martorana, Uyanga Tsedev and Thanh Vu.

Winners of the regional competition will compete in the national finals next month in New York. Iolani has won the regional challenge the past four years.