West Long Branch's Barth Wins Regional Spelling Bee
Long Branch Middle Schooler Katrina Chavez ties for second runner up.
It took nearly four hours of spelling to whittle 48 contestants down to just two, but it took only seconds for Cooper Barth to spell, with confidence, his winning word, fluctuant. The seventh grader from Frank Antonides Middle School in West Long Branch beat out Jackie Du, eighth grader from Carl W. Goetz Middle School in Jackson at the Regional Spelling Bee at Monmouth University on Tuesday night. When Judge Lawrence Benjamin leaned into his mike to say, "That is correct," Barth threw up his arms and let out a "Yes!" and did a little dance before turning to shake hands with Du. After being eliminated in round two, Du was reinstated after winning a challenge and came back strong correctly spelling the Sanskrit word "holi" and the word "…
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Shannon K. Winning
3:56 pm on Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Congrats Cooper and thanks for chiming in. Make sure you keep us in the loop with the competition. Click on my name and email me your contact info. Good luck in DC! more ›