AKC North Carolina State Championship
10/15/2006 4:09:18 PM
Lincolnton, NC – Jack Frost's brushing the summer's leaves with white was the first visible sign of fall here in Carolina. The result was a perfect setting for the 2006 AKC North Carolina State Championship. The two nights of competition hunts finished with several coon scored. The high-scoring dog of the first night’s hunt was Bugger Branch Ajax, a three-year-old Treeing Walker male owned by Jeff Wilson of Waxhaw, NC and handled by Tony Bergamy of Belmont, NC. Ajax scored 1025 plus while competing in one of the AKC Night Hunt format casts running on Friday night.
The format for the NC State Championship featured an added purse of $500 to be split between the top 4 cast winners in the two-night hunt. The hunt featured both the AKC night hunt and the AKC Black Gold – Gold Medal formats on Friday night and an AKC Night Hunt format event on Saturday. Coons appeared to be moving better on Friday night with all four of the high scores on the first night holding up on the second night of competition.
Here are the successful cast winners on Friday night:
AKC Black Gold – Gold Medal $100 Event
Cast One
CW 475 +
Soggy Bottom BeeBee
TW, 4, M
Michael O’Rourke, Dobson, NC, O/H
(Shown in photo, left to right, Michael Holbrook, Michael O’Rourke, Jake Thompson)
Cast Two
CW 225 +
Bluetick, 5, F
Cryin’ Blue Penny
Wayne Bunch/Chad Toney, Chesney, SC - O
Wayne Bunch, Chesney, SC – H
(Shown in photo, left to right, Ronnie Mace, Wayne Bunch, John Sapier)
AKC Night Hunt $25 Event
Cast One
CW 1025 +
Bugger Branch Ajax
Jeff Wilson, Waxhaw, NC – O
Tony Bergamy, Belmont, NC – H
(Shown, l-r, Leroy Helms,unknown, Travis Brittain, Tony Bergamy, Jeff Wilson, and Roy Jones)
Cast Two
CW 400 +
Tuff Company’s Ragin Rage
TW, 2, M
Jerry Cline, Hickory, NC – O
Brandon Martin, Hickory, NC – H
(Shown, l-r, Austin Sigmon and Brandon Martin)
The Saturday night cast winners in the AKC Night Hunt $25 Event were:
Cast One
CW 125 +
Bugger Branch Ajax
TW, 3, M
Jeff Wilson, Waxhaw, NC – O
Tony Bergamy, Belmont, NC – H
(Shown, l-r, Leroy Helms,unknown, Travis Brittain, Tony Bergamy, Jeff Wilson, and Roy Jones)
Cast Two
CW (no plus)
CNC Broad River Bonnie
TW, 6, F
Claude Keever, Rutherfordton, NC – O
Ricky Montgomery, Rutherfordton, NC - H
(Shown, l-r, Claude Keever and Ricky Montgomery)
Cast Three
CW 150 +
Trey
TW, 3, M
David Coggeshull, Mooresboro, NC – O/H
Congratulations to all the winners, to the host club, and to all that came to hunt or show!
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