Read these sentences:


The Jump Rope for Autism event to support autism research began at 9:00 a.m., with 425 jumpers from local schools. Sponsors for each jumper pledged to contribute $1 for every ten minutes of jumping. By 11:00 a.m., only 13 jumpers remained. At 1:15 p.m., the final jumper, Amber Sosa, put down her jump rope and breathed an exhausted sigh.


Which sentence would logically come next to complete the sequence of events in this paragraph?
In the first place, the students asked family and friends to be supporters.
From the beginning, the children competing expected the event would be hard work.
Soon afterward, it was announced that the jumpers had earned $16,833 for autism research.
Third, the students needed their parents' permission to participate in the rope-jumping event.