WILL HEFFERLY WINS WASHINGTON CO. SPELLING BEE

  

Will Hefferly won the 68^th annual Washington County Spelling Bee Thursday night. He out-spelled 26 other top spellers from 9 schools.  Will is a 6^th grade student at Brenham Middle School and the son of Andrew and Abigail Hefferly. 

This year had a first for the spelling bee.  There was a 3-way tie for 3^rd place, with all three going out in the 11^th round: Christopher Lewis, a 4^th grader at Alton Elementary School; Aubrey Morrison, an 8^th grader at Brenham Junior High School; and Garrett Shelton, a 5^th grader at First Baptist Church School.

That set up the finish when the second-place contestant Halston Hynes, a 6^th grade student at First Baptist Church School, misspelled incense.  Will Hefferly went on to spell magistrates and communing correctly in the 13^th round to win the spelling bee.

Hefferly will now go on to represent Washington County at the spelling bee in Missouri City on Saturday, March 23^rd.

KWHI has sponsored the spelling bee since its inception in 1955 and provides cash prizes for the finalists each year.