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BIG WHAMMY!!!


Feelin' Big and Bulletman are scratched for fighting.


River has left the tree and received 125-

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Corey Gruver
Greenville, PA
(724) 456-6813

The dogs were in a hole in the ground when the fight broke out...

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Corey Gruver
Greenville, PA
(724) 456-6813

The 8 minutes is now running on Ike and River...

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Corey Gruver
Greenville, PA
(724) 456-6813

Ike opens up to brake the 8 minute rule!

Roughly 40 minutes remain in this 90 minute cast...

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Corey Gruver
Greenville, PA
(724) 456-6813

The cast inches closer and closer to the river that lies before them.

River (the dog) and Ike are approx. 400 yards apart from one another now, so the cast decides to split the difference.

With Ike at the rear of them, close to where the original hole was that the cast had been "treed" in, the group of hunters moves down through the woods toward River a short distance...

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Corey Gruver
Greenville, PA
(724) 456-6813

Ike is trying to talk himself into another tree...

The judges apply the stationary time on Ike once again...

River has crossed the geographic river ahead of the cast...

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Corey Gruver
Greenville, PA
(724) 456-6813

Allen Gingerich pipes up from behind the cast and asks if this is a bad time to bring up that he doesn't know how to swim...

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Corey Gruver
Greenville, PA
(724) 456-6813

Unfortunately for Allen G, the cast must cross the river, to cut the distance between Ike and River...

Holding his breath, he pulls up his frog legs and takes the mighty jump!!


...Fortunately for him, the water is only knee deep...

Allen breathes a hug sigh of relief as he runs to catch up with the rest of the men on the cast...

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Corey Gruver
Greenville, PA
(724) 456-6813

Ike leaves his stationary location. Doesn't look like these judges are gonna get that blue dog for much minus tonight!

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Corey Gruver
Greenville, PA
(724) 456-6813

Ike and River have fallen silent on their respective trails...

8 minutes is working...

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Corey Gruver
Greenville, PA
(724) 456-6813

8 minutes is broke by River!

26 minutes remain in hunting time.

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Corey Gruver
Greenville, PA
(724) 456-6813

Ike came into the cast and took a minus on his strike points...


Current Scores:


Ike - 25-


River- 125-


Big - SCRATCHED


Bulletman - SCRATCHED

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Corey Gruver
Greenville, PA
(724) 456-6813

Final Cast Guide Regan Lanter can be heard sawing logs nearby... not much action to be spoken of currently...

Maybe Regan is building Allen a bridge to get across that river

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Corey Gruver
Greenville, PA
(724) 456-6813

Tree River for 125!

She came on that tree hard, but not hard enough to roust Regan Lanter from his nap...

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Corey Gruver
Greenville, PA
(724) 456-6813

Final Cast Judge Austin Lane nudges Regan to wake him up as the cast continues on toward River's tree.

Ike can be heard opening in a different direction, he's gonna go on the card for a fourth strike position, since River is currently holding a third position.

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Corey Gruver
Greenville, PA
(724) 456-6813

River shuts it down, she can no longer be heard treeing...

Both judges simultaneously call for a two minute clock to run on her tree.

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Corey Gruver
Greenville, PA
(724) 456-6813

Two is broke!!

Cast continues on to River's tree and gets her handled up.

Let the shine time commence!

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Corey Gruver
Greenville, PA
(724) 456-6813

Handler Duell Murphy asks for low lights to shine her tree to start out...

Will she have the Ricky??

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Corey Gruver
Greenville, PA
(724) 456-6813

2 minutes pass agonizingly slow and the squallers are un-holstered…

BOOM! She's got the coon!!! Plus her up

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Corey Gruver
Greenville, PA
(724) 456-6813

That puts River in the lead with only six minutes left of hunt time!

Current Scores

Ike - 25-

River - 50+

Big - SCRATCHED

Bulletman - SCRATCHED

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Corey Gruver
Greenville, PA
(724) 456-6813

River is pulled off of her tree so that the cast can listen for Ike to get her recut....

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Corey Gruver
Greenville, PA
(724) 456-6813

*CORRECTION*

Ike is currently holding a first strike position instead of a fourth strike position...

Earlier on in the Play By Play, it was not indicated to me that River had held her strike for over an hour, thus all strike positions became available for Ike once he was declared struck.

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Corey Gruver
Greenville, PA
(724) 456-6813

Ike is heard off in the distance and River is recut!

Cast is currently .6 miles from the trucks :O

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Corey Gruver
Greenville, PA
(724) 456-6813

With only minutes to spare, the blue dog finds himself a nice place to pile one up!

This hunt is NOT over yet folks. Ike has just been declared treed for 125!

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Corey Gruver
Greenville, PA
(724) 456-6813

Hunt Time is OVERRRRR…


The cast is now heading in to score Ike's tree...


You can't make this stuff up folks, talk about suspense!!!

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Corey Gruver
Greenville, PA
(724) 456-6813