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| Spelling Bee Won With N-O-U-G-A-T... |
One of the ingredients that's likely in your favorite candy bar helped do something that Knoxville School District officials say hasn't been able to be done in at least 20 years...win their district a county spelling bee.
After a brief moment of confusion as to whether or not another correct word needed to be spelled, it was determined that 13-year old Grant Larson -- a 7th grader at Knoxville Junior High School was declared the winner of yesterday's Knox County Spelling Bee.
Larson defeated repeat bee champion Aidan Schierer of Costa Catholic School to win the title. Schierer bowed out after incorrectly spelling "TERRAGON."
Larson tells WGIL there was one word during one of the preliminary rounds that hung him up.
"I got hung up on amicable. It was just a weird spelling of a word, weirder than you think."
Larson, whose third-grade sister won Mabel Woolsey Elementary School's spelling bee earlier this month, says he only practiced 15-to-20 minutes a night practicing for his first county spelling bee.
Larson now moves on to the Journal-Star Spelling Bee at the WEEK-TV studios in East Peoria March 20th. That winner goes on to the Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee in Washington in May.
(Grant Larson, left, and Aidan Schierer, center, receive congratulations from John Delawder, Knox County Assistant Regional Superintendent of Schools, following Friday's Knox County Spelling Bee at the Galesburg Public Library. WGIL News Story & Photo by Will Stevenson.) |
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| 02 27 09 by Newsroom |
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