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She stands solo on the stage. Her back arched, her tongue curled and poised, and her chin set at a 45-degree angle to the ground.

She is ready to spit. And by Saturday she plans to be ready to win.

Emily Rowe is a past Hope Watermelon Festival watermelon seed-spitting contest winner and she hopes to claim her title again this year.

This will be the fourth consecutive contest for the 11-year-old who takes pride in how she is able to out-spit.

“I beat a grown-up and he usually wins pretty much everything. So I got to beat him that year. I really ...