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Gainesville schools bee winners cast a magic spell
Defending champ hardly evanescent; new elementary winner doesnt let words bewilder her
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Isaiah Willock walks away dejectedly from the microphone Friday afternoon after misspelling a word during the Gainesville City Schools’ systemwide spelling bee at Gainesville Middle School. Willock, however, did not go down easy as he made it deep into the contest, finishing third.
Cody Brewer is the reigning Gainesville City Schools spelling champion. Brewer, a sixth-grader at Gainesville Middle School, won the district’s middle school spelling bee Friday with the correct spelling of the word “evanescent.” He was the winner of last year’s Gainesville elementary spelling bee, which was won this year by Leeslie Lopez, fifth-grader at New Holland Core Knowledge Academy.