North Carolina 8th Graders Are First Team to Repeat as National School SCRABBLE® Champions and $10,000 Prize

ORLANDO, Fla., April 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- They are a little bit taller and their voices are a little bit deeper from when they won the 2009 National School SCRABBLE® Championship as 10 year-olds.  But their way with words remained the same as Andy Hoang and Erik Salgado captured the 2012 National School SCRABBLE® Championship in Orlando, FL.  The pair bested Thomas Draper and Nicholas Vasquez from Millburn, NJ in a close final 422-376.  Among the words played in the final game were CUIF, AGEE, WARTY, AND STANINES.  The annual event featured 150 of the top scholastic SCRABBLE® experts from all over the US and Canada.  Visit www.schoolscrabble.com for more information.

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SOURCE National SCRABBLE Association