Delaware County Equine Team ranks Top 5 at State Horse Bowl Competition

By AIMEE DILL

Sun­bury Hal­ter & Sad­dle News Reporter

The Delaware County 4-H Equine Team rep­re­sented Delaware County at the State Horse Bowl Com­pe­ti­tion with the Junior and Senior teams both plac­ing in the top five out of 60 teams at the Ani­mal Sci­ence Build­ing on the cam­pus of The Ohio State University.

Coaches Deb­bie Man­ring and Betsy Dible helped to get the teams ready for the com­pe­ti­tion by hold­ing weekly prac­tices. Mem­bers of the team have spent the past sev­eral months study­ing and test­ing each other on their horse knowl­edge. A few days before the com­pe­ti­tion they played a fun game of Horse bowl Jeop­ardy and cel­e­brated with a pizza party before the big day.

Both the Junior and Senior team placed top five out of 60 teams.

The Delaware County Senior Team remained the only team unde­feated until the last two rounds where Delaware lost by only one point against But­ler County, walk­ing away with the Out­stand­ing Reserve title. The Seniors were led by Aimee Dill as team cap­tain, Abby Mar­shall in Chair Two, Clara Selle in Chair Three and Caleb Mar­shall in Chair Four

The Junior Team placed fifth out of 33 teams from across the Ohio with team cap­tain Jacob Wen­ner plac­ing first over­all indi­vid­ual high­point and Syd­ney Kuharik plac­ing fourth. Team lead­ers were led by Alli­son Dible in Chair Three, Haley Sav­age in Chair Four, Kuharik in Chair Two and Wen­ner as Team Cap­tain. Joseph Mar­shall as an alter­nate for the Juniors.

The Senior Team will be rep­re­sent­ing Delaware County in the Horse Bowl com­pe­ti­tion at this year’s All-American Quar­ter Horse Con­gress held in Octo­ber at the State Fair­grounds in Columbus.

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