Jennifer Bertrand of Scott City High School and Carrie Peterman of Cape Girardeau Central High School have qualified for state competition in speech and debate.
Bertrand placed second in poetry reading and Peterman placed third in original oratory at the district speech contest held at Southeast Missouri State University.
The two names were inadvertently left off a list of state qualifiers published earlier.
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