Sixth-grader Ketch Jacobson topped 10 other students in a lengthy spelling bee at the Haines School Wednesday, finally clinching the title with “hamlet.”
“I think a lot of it was luck,” said Jacobson, 12. “Someone would get a word right, and then they’d get the next one wrong.”
After several rounds against finalists Marty Fowler, 11, and Skye Posey, 9, Jacobson said the words became easier when he won with “ferret” and “hamlet.”
The spelling…