Students from Tuckahoe Elementary School and Three Chopt Elementary School won first and second place, respectively, in the divisionwide spelling bee on Wednesday.

After 11 rounds, Tuckahoe Elementary School fifth-grader Coly Elhai won the Henrico County divisionwide spelling bee Wednesday night by correctly spelling “ludicrous.”

The runner-up was Emma Greene, a fifth-grader from Three Chopt Elementary School.

Elhai beat 56 other elementary and middle school students at the bee, which was at L. Douglas Wilder Middle School. Among the contestants was Adam Sachs, the only first-grader, from Maybeury Elementary School.

Elhai will move on to compete against central Virginia’s best spellers in the Richmond Times-Dispatch Spelling Bee on March 1 at the Library of Virginia.

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