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By Beacon Journal staff
POSTED: 01:10 p.m. EDT, May 27, 2009
Three local competitors remained standing after two rounds of the 2009 Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., today.
Alexander T. Csorba, 14, an eighth-grade student at Seton Catholic School in Hudson, successfully spelled the word ''braggart'' to advance to the third round of the competition this afternoon.
Tony E. Incorvati, 11, a Green resident in sixth grade at Canton Country Day School, spelled the word ''tiers'' to advance, and Sengrithey Pich, 14, in eighth grade at Visintainer Middle School in Brunswick, spelled ''originate'' correctly to advance to the third round.
A total of 293 competitors from around the country began the competition Tuesday with a test round, spelling 50 words using a computer keyboard. Only 25 of the words will count toward each speller's ''preliminaries'' score.
As competitors advance, they earn bonus points for each correctly spelled word to apply to their preliminaries score.
Immediately after the third round, which is expected to end about 6:15 tonight, bee officials will determine the semifinalists for Thursday's competition, which is from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
At 8 p.m. Thursday, championship finalists compete onstage. In general, the speller is out of the competition once he or she misspells a word.
At the conclusion of the second round, 28 competitors failed to spell their words correctly and did not receive bonus points for the round.
Three local competitors remained standing after two rounds of the 2009 Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., today.
Alexander T. Csorba, 14, an eighth-grade student at Seton Catholic School in Hudson, successfully spelled the word ''braggart'' to advance to the third round of the competition this afternoon.
Tony E. Incorvati, 11, a Green resident in sixth grade at Canton Country Day School, spelled the word ''tiers'' to advance, and Sengrithey Pich, 14, in eighth grade at Visintainer Middle School in Brunswick, spelled ''originate'' correctly to advance to the third round.
A total of 293 competitors from around the country began the competition Tuesday with a test round, spelling 50 words using a computer keyboard. Only 25 of the words will count toward each speller's ''preliminaries'' score.
As competitors advance, they earn bonus points for each correctly spelled word to apply to their preliminaries score.
Immediately after the third round, which is expected to end about 6:15 tonight, bee officials will determine the semifinalists for Thursday's competition, which is from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
At 8 p.m. Thursday, championship finalists compete onstage. In general, the speller is out of the competition once he or she misspells a word.
At the conclusion of the second round, 28 competitors failed to spell their words correctly and did not receive bonus points for the round.
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Uniontown, OH
Posted 02:40 PM, 05/27/2009
Hudson,Green, and Brunswick! See paying all those taxs' is worth it when your kids actually learn how to spell.
medina, oh
Posted 03:01 PM, 05/27/2009
Common Sense Guy...good point, but watch it, 2 of the 3 kids were from parochial or private schools...think Dyer will make a column out of that fact?
akron, oh
Posted 03:15 PM, 05/27/2009
Good luck to all three kids. I am sure their parnets, school, and community are very proud of them. So many times, we read about young people who are trouble wiht the law. It is very refreshing to read about youngsters will are doing something very good with their lives.
Posted 03:29 PM, 05/27/2009
Joshua sure looked excited to be there!!!
95% of the people who comment here could use these kids to proof read for them (i include myself in that % - before anyone comments on it!)
good luck to all 3 of them.
