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World Finals Final Cast Play-By-Play

Tune in on Saturday night for the play-by-play of the Final Cast, right here on this thread.


See you then.

Finally! Wow. Been running around in the past 30 minutes trying to get decent reception at the headquarters. Finally, made the decision to give it up and resort to moving to the hotel. Looks like we'll be good now. Thanks for all your patience.

Here's the latest..... A rainstorm, along with some fairly stiff wind, hit the area around 7 pm. The good news is that it's looking to clear out and already has nearly stopped. The cast waited around the grounds for a bit because of it but they left 20 or 30 minutes ago. They should be at their first drop shortly.

They cut the dogss yet????

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They have arrived at the first spot. Handlers are getting final comments and instructions.

The handlers are in great hands with Seth Isch as the judge in charge assisted by Dale Rakestraw. Corey Hickman is the scorekeeper and the cast is being guided by Shane Leskowyak. Corey Gruver is tagging along for reporting purposes.

The rain looks to have stopped and we should be seeing action very, very shortly.

Start your clock..... the dogs are cut for the final series in the 2014 World Hunt!

Action!!!!

Strike Grace for 100. She is working the edge of a wheat field, 100 yards from the cast.

* Ginger struck for 75.

Dog opens behind the cast. Strike Lyla for 50!

*Loco struck for a quarter, with Lyla. These two are 3-400 hundred yards behind the cast and driving a track, says Corey.

* Ginger treed for 125, 150yds in front of the cast.

* Lyla treed behind the cast for 125!

* Grace treed for 75 with Ginger.

* Ginger and Grace are treed solid, says Corey. 2.15 gone on the five. Loco is trailing around Lyla and the only dog not treed.


* Loco is now treeing with Lyla and called for 75. All dogs are treed! The cast is headed to Ginger and Grace.


*Ginger and Grace are now handled. The cast is headed towards Lyla and Loco to handle them. I'm betting Jerald Keegan isn't feeling much pain after having spent his day baling hay. He's only 35 minutes from Montpelier and has a Belgian Draft Horse Farm. there's work to be done; you get it done; then go hunt when it gets dark.

*The cast has arrived to find Lyla and Loco on a big oak on a hedge row. They are scoring them first and then going back to Ginger and Grace.

* Plus em up!
Lyla - 175+
Loco - 100+ The cast is headed back to Ginger and Grace, with Loco and Lyla on leash.

* They have arrived and are shining the tree. Corey says things are going very well so far with both hounds and handlers.


* Handlers are searching diligently. Nothing so far.

* Time is winding down and still nothing.

* Time is up and no coon seen. Points are circled for Ginger and Grace.

Corey says; the weather is really nice now. Rain has stopped and wind has calmed down to a slight breeze. Dogs are recast in same hunting spot.

* Hour and 23 minutes remaining.

* One dog opens a good ways in. No call.

*Another dog opens but its not the same dog that opened before. Lyla is struck for 100!

* Back up for a minute..... The first dog that opened barked three times, after the minute. The judge asked for a call but no call was made.

*Grace opens and is called for 75.

* Lyla treed for 125. Corey says she is pretty deep. Strike Loco in for 50 with a line under his strike points.

*Ginger opens and is declared struck. The judges determine that it was her that barked three times earlier but was not called. Her strike points are minused (25). She goes back in as struck for 25.

*Loco is called treed for 75, with Lyla. The cast is walking towards them. Grace and Ginger are running.

Ginger is off to the left of the cast, by her self at the moment.

* Grace is treed for 50, with Lyla and Loco.

*Tree is closed and cast has arrived.

* Jerald Keegan requests first two minutes of shining time.

* Whole cast now shining.

*Cast continues to shine. Nothing yet. Ginger is off in the distance, trailing.

* Rain is picking back up again. Still shining. Nothing yet.

* Time's up! No coon. All points are circled, with exception to Loco's strike points. They are deleted (shut-out).

*The three dogs are led from the tree to recast but are leash-locked when ***an trees Ginger, who is off in the distance. Put her on the card for 125. The cast is heading her way.

* The cast has arrived at Ginger's tree. I'm thinking there's already been a little over an hour used so far. I'll get the time confirmed shortly. This tree could be the one to get the blue dog back in the the thick of things again.

*No luck for Ginger. Tree is circled. Time out has been called with 42:36 remaining. Cast is headed to new hunting grounds.

*Back to the action! New spot and maybe we'll tree a few more here? Rain has quit again.

*Less than a minute in, Grace is struck for 100! Loco follows for 75!

* Lyla puts in for 50!

*Ginger now also struck in (25) but is off by herself. Corey says the three Walkers are "cooking".

* Now less than 35 minutes remaining in the World Hunt. Corey says, dogs are now working in several different directions.

*Grace treed for 125! Ginger treed for 75! Corey says, they sound like they are in fact together.

*Loco and Lyla are now treed also, in that order. The cast is headed in to them.

*We have a little communications issue, unfortunately. Corey's cell froze up on him for whatever reason so he hustled back to the trucks to get a back-up. He called to say that the dogs were split up when they got to them. Loco was minused. He was off and trailing. Grace was by herself. Ginger and Lyla were split about 50 yards. That's where we're at. Corey is catching up to the cast and will get me caught up asap.

*Okay...... got a report from Corey. By the time he caught back up with the cast he missed most of the remaining action in the hunt. That amounted to nearly the last half hour of the hunt.

Regardless, what I can tell you for sure right now is that the hunt time has expired. The cast is at the trucks and going over the scorecard etc...

In any case, Grace's tree was circled. Ginger and Lyla were in a hole in the ground. These three were recast to Loco. Loco took a first tree and Grace took 75 on that same tree. The tree was minused.

During this time Ginger also got re-struck and treed. She ended up on Grace's previously scored tree so her points were deleted.

Lyla made good on a tree by herself with a 50+ on strike and 125+ on tree. Had a coon by herself.

Ginger also made another tree, after having been cut from the previously scored tree, where she had a last strike and a tree by herself. A coon was seen in the tree resulting in those points being plussed.

Due to the communications issues during this period the play x play is very vague. For that we apologize. What we do know is the final score of each dog as follows.

Loco - 150-
Grace - 75-
Lyla - 350+ CW
Ginger - 125+

Congratulations to Jerald Keegan and NITECH 'PR' Keegans Let'N Loose Lyla, the 2014 UKC World Nite Hunt Champion!