LATHROP – Justin Barber and Elizabeth Terra made it a first-place sweep for Lathrop Elementary School at Thursday’s Manteca Unified School District Spelling Bee.Barber, who is an eighth-grade student, took the seventh- through ninth- grade division at the annual event held at the Lathrop High Theater Building. He edged out Manteca High freshman Kassandra Diaz and Stella Brockman School seventh-grader James Quiaoit, who took second and third, respectively.All three whiffed on ‘boutonniere’ in the final round. Barber, however, claimed the top spot by being the only one to correctly spell ‘Fahrenheit.’“I had looked up the word before and remembered (the placements) of ‘h’ in (the middle of) it,” he said.Barber was also the repeat Spelling Bee champion from last year, according to Lathrop School teacher Scott Niendorf.Diaz and Quiaoit had a runoff for second place, with both missing on the word ‘entrepreneur.’ Diaz jotted down ‘repetition’ correctly.All three advanced to the county-wide competition scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 5, beginning at 3 p.m. at the San Joaquin County Office of Education’s Burwood 1 and 2.Eighteen students took part in the junior high portion of the MUSD Spelling Bee.