One of the two Mormons on "Survivor: Pacific Island" was voted out during Wednesday night's episode.
Seven of the nine remaining survivors sent Dawn Meehan, of South Jordan and an English professor at Brigham Young University, to Redemption Island.
She will face the others on Redemption Island in a duel for a chance to get back in the game. The overall winner of "Survivor" gets $1 million.
"My best move right now is to say that I've got nothing but loyalty," Meehan said at Tribal Council when host Jeff Probst asked what a big move for her in the game was. "I feel like I've been a hard competitor in the game and I feel like that my word has been kept."
Meehan and fellow former Savaii Tribe member Whitney Duncan, a country music singer, voted against Edna Ma, an anesthesiologist. They had tried to form an alliance with some of the former Upolu Tribe but were apparently unsuccessful.
Since the two tribes merged, the former Upolu Tribe members have been slowly but surely voting off the former Savaii Tribe members.
"This isn't the time to give up," Meehan said earlier in the episode. "Anything can happen."
Benjamin "Coach" Wade mentioned, too, that if Meehan got control of the game, she could win.
Sophie Clarke, a medical student, won immunity in the challenge that included filling up a basket of rice by carrying it in a smaller basket on their heads while walking over two obstacle courses.
Right after Tribal Council, there was another immunity challenge — a survival quiz — that Clarke won again and another Tribal Council. Duncan was then voted out.
Rick Nelson, a Mormon rancher from Aurora, Utah, and a member of the former Upolu Tribe, is still in the game.
Earlier in the episode, Oscar "Ozzy" Lusth, Keith Tollefson and Jim Rice, all of whom are former Savaii Tribe members who were voted out at Tribal Council to Redemption Island, dueled for a chance to re-enter the game.
The challenge was to balance long poles on the back of their hands and hold them against a board parallel to the ground. They each held the poles there for more that 10 minutes before Lusth won.
Tollefson and Rice are the first two members of the jury that will vote to determine the winner on the show's season finale.
"Survivor: South Pacific" airs Wednesday nights at 7 p.m. on CBS.
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