![\"\"](\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17799964_1933087413590323_8017317872776263303_n.jpg\")
<\/p>\nSan Andreas, CA…The 49th Annual Calaveras County Spelling Bee saw some intense spelling competition on Thursday, April 6 at the Calaveras River Academy\/Mountain Oaks gymnasium. Fifty students competed from the following schools:
\nAvery Middle School, Bret Harte High School, Calaveras High School, Christian Family Learning Center, Copperopolis Elementary, Jenny Lind Elementary, Mark Twain Elementary, San Andreas Elementary, Toyon Middle School, Valley Springs Elementary<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17799237_1933087343590330_6419737837810279306_n.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
Assistant Superintendent Scott Nanik, the spelling moderator of the event, read words from the Marin County Junior High Spelling Word List. The students wrote the words down, and proctors checked the students\u2019 efforts to spell them correctly. Each student was allowed to misspell three words before being disqualified. With words like onomatopoeia, hemorrhage, and xenophobia, it was no easy bee. <\/p>\n
The audience applauded as each winner in each grade level was announced. The final word, \u201creceipt,\u201d revealed Calaveras High School ninth grader Summer Cummings as this year\u2019s overall winner. She and Mark Twain Elementary School seventh grader Avery Strauch were the top two spellers and will be moving on to compete in the California State Junior High Spelling Bee Championship held Saturday, May 6, 2017 in San Rafael, CA.<\/p>\n
Following are all the winners from this year\u2019s countywide Spelling Bee:<\/p>\n
6th Grade WINNERS \u2013 1st Place: Cooper Oliver, Avery Middle School
\n6th Grade WINNERS \u2013 2nd Place: Makenna Robertson, Avery Middle School 6th Grade WINNERS \u2013 3rd Place: Emilee Cunningham, Valley Springs Elementary<\/p>\n
7th Grade WINNERS \u2013 1st Place: Avery Strauch, Mark Twain Elementary
\n7th Grade WINNERS \u2013 2nd Place: Jordan Smith, Avery Middle School
\n7th Grade WINNERS \u2013 3rd Place: Alexis Horlacher, Toyon Middle School<\/p>\n
8th Grade WINNERS \u2013 1st Place: Nick Garibay, Toyon Middle School
\n8th Grade WINNERS \u2013 2nd Place: Jackson Oliver, Avery Middle School
\n8th Grade WINNERS \u2013 3rd Place: Emmaline Rath, Toyon Middle School<\/p>\n
9th Grade WINNERS \u2013 1st Place: Summer Cummings, Calaveras High School
\n9th Grade WINNERS \u2013 2st Place: Dan Abando, Bret Harte High School
\n9th Grade WINNERS \u2013 3rd Place: Elizabeth Enderlein, Calaveras Harte High School<\/p>\n
TOP TWO WINNERS GOING ON TO STATE CHAMPIONSHIP: Summer Cummings, from Calaveras High School, and Avery Strauch, from Mark Twain Elementary School<\/p>\n
Calaveras County Office of Education congratulates the winners, as well as all the students who attended the event.<\/p>\n
For further information, please contact Lauren Robinson at the Calaveras County Office of Education, (209) 736-6094.<\/p>\n
# # # # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
San Andreas, CA…The 49th Annual Calaveras County Spelling Bee saw some intense spelling competition on Thursday, April 6 at the Calaveras River Academy\/Mountain Oaks gymnasium. Fifty students competed from the following schools: Avery Middle School, Bret Harte High School, Calaveras High School, Christian Family Learning Center, Copperopolis Elementary, Jenny Lind Elementary, Mark Twain Elementary, San […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,21,6,20,14,37,18,1,146,8,31,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-angels-camp","category-arnold","category-copperopolis","category-education","category-featured","category-mokelumne-hill","category-mountain-ranch","category-murphys","category-news","category-rail-road-flat","category-san-andreas","category-valley-springs","category-west-point","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17799237_1933087343590330_6419737837810279306_n.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}