By: Nate Bope
The highly anticipated livestock scramble took place Wednesday evening at the Logan County fair.
Three different scrambles featuring different livestock took place.
First was the chicken scramble.
The untimed event saw children aged 3-8 years compete to see how many chickens they could catch and put back into the pen.
The second event, the sheep scramble, sees five sheep let loose in the arena—the object is to wrangle and put a halter on the sheep.
Five different classes of participants in different age groups competed. The results are as follows:
Class 1 (9-10 years)
1st – Wyatt Zumberger (35 seconds)
2nd – Eeverly Griffiths (36 seconds)
3rd – Titus Moore (2 minutes 26 seconds)
4th – Jackson Case (2 minutes 55 seconds)
5th – Cohen Elliott (3 minutes 48 seconds)
Class 2 (10-11 years)
1st – Moriah Winner (1 minute 13 seconds)
2nd – Bentley Patrick (2 minutes 5 seconds)
3rd – Kinsley Dinovo (3 minutes 18 seconds)
4th – Payton Storm (3 minutes 40 seconds)
5th – Carter Haver (5 minutes 17 seconds)
Class 3 (11-12 years)
1st – Lesley Krabill (27 seconds)
2nd – Owen Bayliss (34 seconds)
3rd – Reese McCarthy (48 seconds)
4th – McKinley Roell (1 minute 8 seconds)
5th – John-Paul Ritter (2 minutes 10 seconds)
Class 4 (12-13 years)
1st – Eli McCarty (22 seconds)
2nd – Emmery Howell (23 seconds)
3rd – Ezra Winner (28 seconds)
4th – Anthony Luthman (44 seconds)
5th – Brady Jackson (1 minute 24 seconds)
Class 5 (14 years)
1st – Alivia James (19 seconds)
2nd – Eliza Zumberger (26 seconds)
3rd – Ellie Zwiebel (33 seconds)
4th – Eelyah Ritter (43 seconds)
5th – Avery McCarty (1 minute 1 second)
The main event of the evening was the final event, the cattle scramble.
The same rules from the sheep scramble apply, except the number of cattle is dropped to three.
Three classes of competitors made their way through the ring.
The three fastest times out of the nine finishers moved on to the final round, denoted by an asterisk.
Results from the preliminary round are below:
Class 1 (14-16 years)
1st – Grant Krabill (2 minutes 21 seconds)
2nd – Lydia Davie (3 minutes 20 seconds)
3rd – Zade Bieleski (3 minutes 21 seconds)
Class 2 (16-18 years)
1st – Silas Krabill* (39 seconds)
2nd – Josiah Stidham* (1 minute 45 seconds)
3rd – Louis Luthman (2 minutes 48 seconds)
Class 3 (19-23 years)
1st – Charles Krumm* (1 minute 41 seconds)
2nd – Elijah Baughman (2 minutes 8 seconds)
3rd – Titus Davie (3 minutes 7 seconds)
The three fastest competitors each got to pick a partner who had already competed in the event to help them in the final round.
Each team was then assigned a specific calf to have haltered.
The final results are listed below:
1st place – Josiah Stidham (1 minute 17 seconds)
2nd place – Silas Krabill (1 minute 18 seconds)
3rd place – Charles Krumm (2 minutes 4 seconds)
Josiah Stidham chose his brother, Naeman, to be his partner.
The two played football together at West Liberty-Salem High School.
Stidham talks about the scramble:
Stay tuned all week for more updates from the Logan County Fair.
