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San Ramon's Audrey Bantung Misspells Word in Semifinals of National Spelling Bee
You can watch Bantung and the other 42 semifinalists on ESPN2 right now on Thursday afternoon.
UPDATE 1 p.m.
Audrey advanced to the sixth round in the semifinals before she misspelled the word "polytocous," eliminating her from the competition.
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Audrey Bantug, an Iron Horse Middle School eighth-grader, is in the semifinals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
You can watch Bantung and the other 42 semifinalists on ESPN2 right now on Thursday afternoon.
Her most recent correct spelling was for the word "oread" (a mountain nymph).
(Related: San Ramon Eighth-Grader Competing in Scripps National Spelling Bee Today)
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