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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — T'iel Lochridge, of Dillon, is the Scripps Spelling Bee champion for Montana.
The Dillon Middle School eighth-grader won the state bee on Saturday in Billings.
She will go on to represent Montana in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington in June.
Defending Montana champion Erik Hovland, of Canyon Creek, placed second.
At the beginning of the competition, 60 students labored to unravel tongue-tying words, but after two rounds nearly half the field was knocked out.
Lochridge, a three-time Beaverhead County champion, tells The Billings Gazette (http://bit.ly/1MXVLwm ) that she studied more than past years.
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