Rossi wins Holy Family spelling bee

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Neighbors | Submitted .Holy Family's Spelling Bee champion Matthew Rossi (left), posed with principal Kathleen Stoops and runner-up Brennan Bizon.

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Neighbors | Submitted .Matthew Rossi, representing Marilyn Hammerton's fifth-grade classroom, correctly spelled the word "incompetent" and then expertly handled "foreign" to win the Holy Family Spelling Bee.

Holy Family fifth-grader Matthew Rossi will represent the school in the Vindicator’s Regional spelling bee March 17. Rossi, a student in Marilyn Hammerton’s fifth-grade classroom, survived many rounds of play to correctly spell the work “incompetent” and seal his win by spelling “foreign” to win the bee.

Eighth-grader Brennan Bizon earned a second-place finish.

Holy Family staff conducting the school spelling bee included Lissa Oslin, Joy Huber and principal Kathleen Stoops.

Students from fourth through eighth-grade participated in the event. They included, from fourth-grade, Theodore Ovaska, Alyssa Masternick, Ashley Thompson, and Margaret Faur; from fifth-grade, Angelina Sabatino, Matthew Rossi, Isabella Massaro-Suchora, and Daniel McClellan; sixth grade, Michael Puhalla; seventh grade, Tessa Snider and Adam Yossef; and from eighth grade, Brennan Bizon, Olivia Morrison, Victoria Rucci and Isabel Stoeber.