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Joliet student wins Will County spelling bee

By Mary Owen TribLocal reporter Feb. 24, 2011 at 6:00 a.m.

The Will County Spelling Bee winners are: (from left) Ashley Soper, third place winner from Wilmington Middle School; Nina Montello, first place winner from the Cathedral of St. Raymond's; and Tyler Richart, second place winner from Trinity Christian School. Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant, Will County regional superintendent of schools, is with them. (Photo courtesy of ComEd)

The winning word was m-o-z-z-a-r-e-l-l-a.

That’s the word that Nina Montello, a sixth-grader at Cathedral of St. Raymond in Joliet, spelled correctly to win the Will County Spelling Bee Tuesday night at Lewis University.

Coming in second was Tyler Richart, who attends Trinity Christian School and third place was Ashley Soper, a student at Wilmington Middle School.

Montello qualifies to go to the 84th Annual Scripps National Spelling Bee Finals, to be held June 1-2 in Washington, D.C. The spelling bee was sponsored by ComEd, who will pay her expenses to travel to the finals.