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February 24, 2015 DIXON | LEE/OGLE COUNTY REGIONAL SPELLING BEE
Youth served Polo fourth-grader Rebekah Zeigler wins, earns trip to D.C. BY JERMAINE PIGEE
Photos by Alex T. Paschal
DIXON – Back and forth went Rebekah Zeigler and Lydia Cermak, the final spellers left Thursday in the Lee/Ogle Regional Spelling Bee after 24 others were eliminated. Finally, Cermak, a sixth-grader at Oregon Elementary School, was tripped up by the word tuckahoe. Zeigler, a fourth-grader at Centennial Elementary School in Polo, responded quickly by correctly spelling lederhosen. After 28 rounds, victory, and a trip to the national bee, was within Ziegler’s reach. All that stood in the way was spelling one final word correctly. The word she was given? Borzoi, a large Russian wolfhound. Zeigler confidently stepped to the microphone in the packed auditorium of Dixon High School, and correctly spelled the word. “I feel really good about winning,” Zeigler said with a wide smile. “My mom and dad helped me a lot.” Zeigler had served notice last year as a third-grader, the youngest grade eligible in the bee, by finishing 10th. Stu-
Rebekah Zeigler of Centennial Elementary School in Polo smiles after winning the Lee/Ogle Regional Spelling Bee on Thursday in the auditorium of Dixon High School. Zeigler won the honor despite being a fourth-grader, one of the youngest of the 26 competitors. dents in the third through eighth grades can compete. By winning this year, Zeigler, the 9-year-old daughter of Mark and Alissa Zeigler, receives an all-expenses-paid trip for two to National Harbor, Maryland, just south of Washington, D.C., to compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee that begins May 24 and concludes May 29. She also won a $100 U.S. savings bond, a Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, and an online subscription to Encyclopedia Britannica. Statistics suggest Zeigler’s win should come as no surprise. Thirteen of the past 16 winners in the Lee/ Ogle contest were girls. Nationally, since the competition started in 1983, 53 percent of bee contestants have been female.
Lydia Cermak, a sixth-grader at Oregon Elementary School, took runnerup honors Thursday.
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