Ten-year-old Rajat Singh, of Santa Fe, gets a hug from his mother after finishing second for the second year in a row at The Albuquerque Tribune Regional Spelling Bee. Matthew Evans, 12, a home-schooled seventh-grader from Albuquerque bested all other spellers for the fourth year in a row Saturday to earn a place in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.