Sixteen area students, including four from Delphos, participated in the Allen County Spelling Bee Saturday at Ohio State-Lima. The first-place prize of $100 went to Melissa Bryan, an 8th-grader from Spencerville Middle School. Second-place prize of $75 went to Isabel Maseli, a 7th grader from Bluffton Middle School; and third-place prize of $50 went to Logan Orians, an Elida seventh-grader. All participants will compete again in the Lima News Regional Spelling Bee at 10 a.m. on March 23 in the Martha W. Farmer Theater for the Performing Arts in Reed Hall at The OSU-Lima campus. Above: Jason Ditto, a seventh-grader from Jefferson Middle School was eliminated on the word “nuance.” (Delphos Herald/Stacy Taff)