Watch Harini Logan win the bee’s first-ever lightning-round
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Harini Logan is the new Scripps National Spelling Bee C-H-A-M-P-I-O-N.
The Texas teenager won the title after surviving the bee’s first-ever lightning-round tiebreaker on Thursday night. The 14-year-old eighth-grader from San Antonio spelled 21 words correctly during the 90-second “spell-off” … beating competitor Vikram Raju by six words.
The winning word was technically “moorhen” which means the female of the red grouse.
Logan walks away with more than $50,000 in cash and prizes.
Susan Saunders 6/3/22
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