Pendleton County was well represented at the 106th an-nual Tri-County Fair in Petersburg.
After weeks of working with cattle, goats, hogs or sheep, Pendleton County youth showed their animals at the fair. With tears in their eyes, some of the exhibitors sold their market animals.
During the week, 4-H and FFA members from Grant, Hardy and Pendleton counties showed 73 market beeves, 49 breeding beeves, 40 feeder calves, 109 market lambs, 66 breeding sheep, 125 market hogs and 85 market goats. Of these, 281 animals were sold in the livestock sale.
In addition to 4-H’ers showing their animals, 252 4-H projects from Pendleton County were on display.
Awards
Dottie Warner Memorial Outstanding Exhibitor Award — Aubriana Holloway, intermediate;
Master Showmanship Winner — Tia Heavner;
Skill-A-Thon — Colton Whetzel (second junior beef); Katie Heavner (fifth overall senior, second senior beef and third senior goat); Ty Heavner (fourth overall senior, fourth senior beef and second senior sheep); Tori Heavner (third overall junior, third junior sheep and second junior hog); Hannah Heavner (fourth overall junior and fifth jun-ior sheep); Addy Rumer (fifth senior sheep); Kallie Keyser (third overall senior and second senior hog); and Gracie He-drick (fifth overall junior);
Carcass Evaluation —Tori Heavner (market heifer car-cass grand champion); Reagyn Atkins (grand champion carcass goat); Bella Hoover (fourth carcass lamb); Katie Heavner (sixth carcass steer); Lydia Heavner (seventh car-cass steer); and Branson Smith (10th carcass steer);
Beef Showmanship — senior – Addy Rumer, reserve champion, and Kelby Rumer, fifth overall; intermediate – Aubriana Holloway, champion; and junior – Brynleigh Ruddle, reserve champion;
Sheep Showmanship — senior – Addy Rumer, champion, Ty Heavner, reserve champion, and McKenna Hedrick, seventh; intermediate – Kallie Keyser, reserve champion, Gracie Hedrick, third, and Aiden Whetzel, eighth; junior – Jaelyn Rumer, champion, and Maddie Grace Nesselrodt, reserve champion; and junior novice – Jonah Seymour, sixth;
Goat Showmanship — senior – Ty Heavner, reserve champion, and Lydia Heavner, fifth; intermediate – Gracie Hedrick, champion, Tia Heavner, third, and Reagyn At-kins, fifth; and junior – Jaelyn Rumer, champion, and Bella Hoover, fifth; and
Swine Showmanship — senior – Olivia Gonshor, fifth; and junior – Brynleigh Ruddle, champion.
Breeding Cattle
Tori Heavner — first in open and junior Simmental classes;
Norah Hubbard — fourth in open class of commercial breeds; and
Maycee Woods — first in junior class and fifth in open class of commercial breeds.
Bailee Kiger — champion feeder calf and second in feeder calf steer class;
Branson Smith — second and third in feeder calf heifer classes and second in feeder calf steer class; and
Maycee Woods — third in feeder calf steer class and fourth in feeder calf heifer class.
Breeding Sheep
Tia Heavner — first in class of crossbred ewe open and junior shows:
Tori Heavner — fifth in class of crossbred ewe junior show and sixth in class of crossbred ewe open show;
Ty Heavner — first in class of crossbred ewe open and junior shows;
Gracie Hedrick — second in class of crossbred ewe open and junior shows;
Bella Hoover — third in class of crossbred ewe junior show and fourth in class of crossbred ewe open show;
Breymann Keesecker — fourth in class of crossbred ewe in the open and junior shows;
Kallie Keyser — second in class of crossbred ewe in the open and junior shows;
Katie Keyser — third in class of crossbred ewe in the open and junior shows;
Kaleigh Kidwell — eighth in class of crossbred ewe open show;
Kaysen Kidwell — ninth in class of crossbred ewe open show;
Maddie Grace Nesselrodt — champion bred and owned ewe and first in class of crossbred open and junior shows;
Scarlette Plaugher — fifth in class of crossbred ewe open show;
Kendall Schell — sixth in class of crossbred ewe open show;
Jonah Seymour — second in class of crossbred ewe open and junior shows;
Olivia Seymour — third in class of crossbred open show; Aiden Whetzel — second in class of crossbred ewe junior show and third in class of crossbred ewe open shows; and
Colten Whetzel — fourth in class of crossbred ewe junior show and sixth in crossbred ewe open show.
Market Lamb
Maddie Grace Nesselrodt — reserve grand champion market lamb (champion lightweight) and champion bred and owned; Gracie Hedrick — reserve champion lightweight;
Ty Heavner —champion middleweight and reserve cham-pion bred and owned; Addy Rumer — reserve champion heavyweight; McKenna Hedrick — second in lightweight classes;
Tia Heavner (first), Allie Hedrick (eighth), Piper Hubbard (sixth), Breymann Keesecker (fifth), Kallie Keyser (third), Emily Schell (second), Hannah Schell (third), Jonah Sey-mour (eighth), and Maycee Woods (third) — middleweight classes; and
Ryleigh Cook (sixth), Madalyn Griffin (seventh), Tori Heavner (third), Bella Hoover (third), Katie Keyser (first), Jaelyn Rumer (second) and Aiden Whetzel (seventh) — heavyweight class.
Market Goat
Jaelyn Rumer — reserve grand champion market goat (champion middleweight);
Reagyn Atkins — reserve champion lightweight;
Tia Heavner — champion heavyweight;
Ty Heavner — reserve champion heavyweight;
Kelby Rumer — second in lightweight class;
Lydia Heavner (third), Breymann Keesecker (second) and Levi Miller (ninth) — middleweight classes; and
Gracie Hedrick (first), Bella Hoover (first) and Cody Mill-er (10th) — heavyweight classes.
Market Hog
Brynleigh Ruddle — first in lightweight class;
Olivia Gonshor (fifth and sixth – two hogs) and Landyn Warner (seventh) — mediumweight classes; and
Addie Rumer (first) and Lindsey Smith (first and third – two hogs) — heavyweight classes.
Market Heifer
Tori Heavner — third and fourth (two heifers) in classes; and Aubriana Holloway — first in class.
Market Steer
Addie Rumer — champion lightweight;
Brynleigh Ruddle — reserve champion heavyweight: Katie Heavner (fifth), Emily Schell (fifth) and Branson Smith (fourth) — lightweight class;
Hannah Heavner (fourth), Aubriana Holloway (first and fifth overall) and Kelby Rumer (third and fourth – two steers) — middleweight class; and
Hannah Heavner (sixth), Lydia Heavner (fifth), Hannah Schell (sixth), and Brandson Smith (third and fifth overall) — heavyweight class.
Pendleton Youth Representatives on Committees
Beef – Katie Heavner, goat – Gracie Hedrick, sheep – Ty Heavner, and swine – Tia Heavner.
(Note: Pendleton County’s youth livestock sales results will be published in next week’s paper.)
