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POWAY , Calif. - An eighth grader from Twin Peaks Middle School in Poway advanced Wednesday to the fifth round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee by correctly spelling torchére as the quarterfinals got underway.Benjamin Evans was among 148 spellers from the original field of 245, the largest since 2019, to advance to the quarterfinals by correctly spelling two words and answering a vocabulary question during Tuesday's preliminaries.
The semifinals will be broadcast from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday on ION. The network is also carried on many streaming platforms. Benjamin correctly spelled epihippus -- an extinct genus of the modern horse family that lived in the Eocene era, 38 million to 46 million years ago -- as the winning word.
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