John Umble wins his second Vindicator Regional Spelling Bee

March 14, 2009 at 3:50p.m.

YOUNGSTOWN — John Umble has done it again.

The grand champion of the 2007 Vindicator Regional Spelling Bee has been named grand champion of the 2009 event as well.

Umble, 14, and an eighth grader at Willow Creek Learning Center, claimed his second title Saturday in the regional bee held at Kilcawley Center on the Youngstown State University campus.

Andrew Rossi, 12, a seventh grader representing Holy Family School, came in second, but, for several rounds, the final result could have gone either way.

Read more in Sunday’s Vindicator and Vindy.com