By: Angi Walkup
THE VILLAGE REPORTER
Tough words like “appurtenances” and “loquacious” kept the audience at the Williams County Spelling Bee held in the Montpelier auditeria in S-U-S-P-E-N-S-E on Tuesday evening. Kaylee McCaskey, a 6th grader, from North Central beat out Montpelier’s 8th grader Bailey Ward. Bailey’s unfortunate demise occurred when she misspelled “easel”. Kaylee had to spell her next word in the round correctly: “goatee” AND spell the winning word correctly: “average”.
Kaylee did just that and won the opportunity to compete in the next round at IPFW in Fort Wayne, Indiana on March 7th at 10 am.
Kaylee and Bailey were the last two students standing beating out students from Bryan, Edon, Edgerton, Millcreek-West Unity, Stryker, St Mary’s and St. Patrick schools.
Kaylee follows in the footsteps of 2014 Williams County Spelling Bee winner and fellow North Central student Trystan Yoder.
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