MENDOTA – Schools in LaSalle, Putnam and Marshall counties recently held their annual spelling bees.

The following middle school students were named the winners of their school's spelling bee:

• Maycie Sproston (second consecutive win), seventh grade, Northbrook School, Mendota
• Rachael Duda, sixth grade, La Salle Elementary School
• Mason Mock, sixth grade, and runner-up Allyson Bresser, eighth grade, Earlville Grade School
• Elan Fallon, seventh grade, Henry-Senachwine Grade and Junior High School
• Natali Moriarty, seventh grade, and runner-up George Olesen, sixth grade, Tonica Grade School
• Josiah Alix, fifth grade, Marquette Academy, Ottawa
• Ethan Farabaugh, sixth grade, and runner-up Sam Reynolds, sixth grade, Central Intermediate School, Ottawa
• Rocco Affrunti (second consecutive win), seventh grade, and runner-up Ethan Pantig, seventh grade, Wallace Grade School, Ottawa
• Gregory Wakefield, seventh grade, Seneca Grade School
• Joshua Libner, seventh grade, and runner-up Mason Rambeau, eighth grade, Marseilles Elementary School
• Jude Edwall, sixth grade, Waltham School, Utica
• Anthony Harrison, eighth grade, and runner-up Addison Blacklaw, eighth grade, Grand Ridge Grade School

Schools had the option to register their school champion at spellingbee.com. The school champions could then take the Regional Qualifier Test with the top finishers advancing to the Scripps National Spelling Bee Regional Bee for Illinois.