Sebring Local sending 2 to regional spelling bee

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Ava Berger, left, runner-up in the B.L. Miller Elementary spelling bee, congratulates Carson Bevins, right, the event's victor. The pair competed for several rounds of back-and-forth spelling rounds.
Ava Berger, left, runner-up in the B.L. Miller Elementary spelling bee, congratulates Carson Bevins, right, the event's victor. The pair competed for several rounds of back-and-forth spelling rounds.

SEBRING – Two Sebring Local School District students have moved on to represent the district at a regional spelling bee in March.

Carson Bevins, a fifth-grader at B.L. Miller Elementary, and seventh-grader Hunter Matea of McKinley Junior High School, were champions in their respective school bees and will move on to spell in March in Youngstown for the right to compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in May.

Sebring McKinley Junior High School student Hunter Matea, right, is the school's 2023 Spelling Bee champion, while Brenlee Armor, left, was the event's runner-up. Matea's victory qualified him to compete in the upcoming regional bee in Youngstown.
Sebring McKinley Junior High School student Hunter Matea, right, is the school's 2023 Spelling Bee champion, while Brenlee Armor, left, was the event's runner-up. Matea's victory qualified him to compete in the upcoming regional bee in Youngstown.

Fifteen B.L. Miller Elementary students – five students each from third through fifth grades, qualified to compete in the building spelling bee. During the Jan. 10 bee, 13 of the students took the stage, spelling words from the Scripps National Spelling Bee list.

By Round 14, only two spellers remained. The competition intensified as third-grader Ava Berger and Bevins, a fifth-grader, went through several words. After several more rounds, Bevins was named champion and Berger runner-up.

McKinley Junior Highstudents in sixth through eighth grades competed over several days to represent their classes in the Sebring McKinley Spelling Bee. The grade-level winners then competed before Matea was declared the victor. Brenlee Armor was the runner-up.

Fifteen students at B.L. Miller Elementary in Sebring qualified to compete in the school's Jan. 10 spelling bee.
Fifteen students at B.L. Miller Elementary in Sebring qualified to compete in the school's Jan. 10 spelling bee.

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