Iola mayor Joel Wicoff presents the top trophy to this year’s Allen County Spelling Bee grand champion, Iola middle-schooler Audrey Coltrane. A perennial top contestant at previous bees, Coltrane’s winning word on Friday was “holocaust.” Among the words that laid waste to her competitors were “aperture,” “treatise,” “laburnum,” “pearlescent,” “Dantean,” “prodigious,” “mandarin,” “hypotenuse,” “tremulous,” “bestial” and more. IMS schoolmate Cole Mathes earned runner-up honors. The county bee win earns Coltrane a ticket to the state spelling bee Feb. 25 at Fort Hays State University.
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