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Ansonia’s Skylith
Edwards takes first in county spelling bee
UNION CITY – Good! Surprised! Excited! The top three spellers in the
Darke County District Spelling Bee competition at Mississinawa Valley
Jan. 22 expressed their elation simply… much more simply than some of
the words they had to spell.
Skylith Edwards, sixth grader at Ansonia Elementary went six rounds to
defeat second place winner, Ansonia Junior High eighth grader Kassy
Wentworth, and third place winner Tri-Village Junior High eighth grader
Elijah Driver.
Fourteen contestants, two each from the seven county school districts,
vied for the honor. They received one practice round with warm-up
words, such as cat, live, full and so on. Then the contest began. The
field was cut in half following the first round with words such as
notoriety, ammunition, deportee, and jettison. Round two dropped the
field to four while round three left three students standing. Elijah
sat down in round four, holding the third place win...
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