…Team Digs (or maybe team digs), shown here hard at work at the Friends of the Library’s Spelling Bee last night at the Grand Event Center…
…at least from the NDDC’s scoring system, where it’s all based the the enthusiasm and vigor of the cheering section.
I guess the official winner was a group from some institute of higher learning up on a hill over on the west side of town. They spelled all five words in the final round, four of which I’d never even heard of before, to edge out two teams that managed to spell four out of five of the words. You can read more about it on Locally Grown.
How did the NDDC Team do? Well, my wife subbed for Amy Gage and I subbed for Tristan Cox and our only original team member, Dave Shumway, tried to tell us that we’d left out an “i” but there was a communication problem and…
…I guess it pays to listen to the folks at 1st National Bank.