The culmination of several spelling bees across the Dawson County School System, last week's event in the Dawson County Junior High School auditorium resulted in eighth grader Lane McCarthy taking home the hardware. McCarthy outlasted the other five competitors through four rounds, including the newly-established vocabulary round on Jan. 25. After McCarthy spelled mammoth, Abby Samples stumbled on the word womanly and McCarthy spelled her next two words correctly to earn the system-wide title.