Albia Youth Earns Top Honors in 4-H Market Lamb Show at Iowa State Fair
August 18, 2011
Hunter Gerths of Albia won Grand Champion Market Lamb honors in 4-H Market and Performance Lamb show on Monday at the 2011 Iowa State Fair. In addition to Gerth’s Division 4 Champion Lightweight Heavy Lamb that won the honor, he also exhibited the Division 3 Reserve Champion Medium Weight Lamb.
Riley Wattonville of Huxley exhibited the Reserve Grand Champion Market Lamb with his Division 5 Champion Lightweight Heavy Lamb.
Third Place Overall Market Lamb went to Brooke Kuesel of Victor for her Division 3 Champion Medium Weight Lamb.
Logan Stutsman of Iowa City captured Fourth and Fifth Places Overall with his Reserve Champion Division 4 Lightweight Heavy Lamb and Reserve Champion Division 5 Heavyweight Lamb, respectively.
In the Performance Show, Stutsman exhibited the Grand Champion Performance Lamb, while Wattonville showed the Reserve Grand Champion Lamb.
Additional results below:
MARKET
White Face/Cross Champion – Andrea Moser, Garden Grove
White Face/Cross Reserve Champion – Jesse Bennett, Perry
Division 1 Champion Lightweight – Chance Deppe, Maquoketa
Division 1 Reserve Champion Lightweight – Brooke Stutsman, Iowa City
Division 2 Champion Light Medium Weight – Gracie Russell, Prescott
Division 2 Reserve Champion Light Medium Weight – Paige Petzenhauser, Roland
Division 3 Champion Medium Weight – Brooke Kuesel, Victor
Division 3 Reserve Champion Medium Weight – Hunter Gerths, Albia
Division 4 Champion Lightweight Heavy – Hunter Gerths, Albia
Division 4 Reserve Champion Lightweight Heavy – Logan Stutsman, Iowa City
Division 5 Champion Heavyweight – Riley Wattonville, Huxley
Division 5 Reserve Champion Heavyweight – Logan Stutsman, Iowa City
PERFORMANCE
Division 1 Champion Lightweight – Clarabell Knapp, Bloomfield
Division 1 Reserve Champion Lightweight – Chance Deppe, Maquoketa
Division 2 Champion Medium Weight – Logan Stutsman, Iowa City
Division 2 Reserve Champion Medium Weight – Tanner Berry, Sac City
Division 3 Champion Heavyweight – Riley Wattonville, Huxley
Division 3 Reserve Champion Heavyweight – Tanner Hild, Webster City
Gerth’s and Wattonville’s title holders, as well as 12 other livestock champions, will be auctioned in the prestigious Sale of Champions on Saturday, August 20, at 2 p.m. in the Penningroth Media Center of the Cattle Barn. The event is sponsored by the Iowa Foundation for Agricultural Advancement, a non-profit organization established to encourage the pursuit of agriculture-related careers by Iowa’s youth.
“Nothing Compares” to the 2011 Iowa State Fair, celebrating 100 years of the Butter Cow August 11-21. The Fairgrounds are located at East 30th and East University Avenue, just 10 minutes east of downtown Des Moines, and are open 7 a.m. to 1 a.m. each day of the Fair. Exhibit hours may vary. For more information, call 800/545-FAIR or visit iowastatefair.org.
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