Top Spellers Advance to Lake County Finals in March

Barrington, Libertyville, Lake Forest and Deerfield represented in quartet.

  There was not just one champion at Wednesday night's Lake County Sectional Spelling Bee at South Park School in Deerfield. Try four. In contrast to previous years where one Sectional champ was crowned, this year four students from each of the three Lake County Sectionals advance to the Lake County Finals on March 14 at College of Lake County in Grayslake. At South Park School, the quartet includes Grace Chiou from St. Joseph School in Libertyville, Pranav Sivakumar from Barrington Middle School-Station, Pranav Guru from Charles J. Caruso Middle School in Deerfield, and Alex Banta from Deer Path Middle School in Lake Forest. Chiou, Slvakumar and Guru were the first three to qualify after they correctly spelled their words in the eighth of…

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