Austin Pineda, an eighth grade student from Romoland School District, won the Riverside County spelling bee today and will represent the county in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

Pineda correctly spelled fruticose -- of or like a shrub -- to win. Pineda attends Boulder Ridge Middle School.

Ramakrishnan Kumaran, a sixth grade student at Acacia Middle School in Hemet, will advance to the state elementary school spelling bee. He finished in fourth place overall in the county bee.

His alternate will be Raymond Galloway, a fifth grader at Lasselle Elementary, a Val Verde Unified School District campus in Moreno Valley.
— Imran Vittachi
ivittachi@PE.com

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