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HENRY |
Avery Ballone won the Bellefontaine Intermediate School’s annual spelling bee Wednesday by correctly spelling the championship word “viper.”
She and runner-up Jaylen Henry will represent BIS at the Logan County Spelling Bee Jan. 23 at Riverside Schools.
At the BIS bee, 21 fifth-graders participated and the competition went on for 69 rounds, with the final two spellers going head-to-head for multiple rounds, school officials noted.
Avery also will take an online spelling and vocabulary test in January to try to continue to the next level in the Scripps National Spelling Bee competition.