Queens of the spelling bee
Fifth-grade students battled it out at Laguna Beach Unified School District's Fifth Annual Spelling Bee last month.
Finalists Alexis Yang of El Morro and Lauren West of Top of the World each had two wins entering the final round of competition, according to a news release.
Bill Steel and Nancy Hubbell judged the event for the fifth year in a row.
Yang and West went eight rounds of spelling challenging words before Yang was declared the winner with a score of El Morro 3, Top of the World 2.
"These students' word knowledge was impressive," Steel said in a statement. "We started with 34 competitors and with 10 left on stage, amazingly five hailed from El Morro and five from TOW."
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