Jiya Shetty EMMALEE REED/MISSOURIAN I really want to make it, but I know that it s going to be hard because I know that is everyone s goal, Jiya said in an interview on Tuesday after the fourth round.Â
The Smithton Middle School eighth grader competed against 75 spellers in the quarterfinal rounds of the spelling bee Tuesday before misspelling a word in the sixth round. If she had spelled that word correctly, she would have competed again Sunday, June 27, in the semifinals of the spelling bee.Â
Jiya completed the first three rounds in the preliminaries Saturday. Tuesday s fourth round, Jiya s first round of the day, asked her to spell the word selenology, meaning a branch of astronomy that deals with the moon.Â
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