Adamstown MD  Despite the rain and mud, Puppy Palooza turned out to be a great event.  The dogs seem to love jumping into a pond much more than a pool every time.  Saturday was a beautiful day for jumping and the rain held off until Extreme Vertical was just about to start on Sunday.

The Keystone Club dominated the Extreme Vertical by taking eight of the ten placements in combined Top Gun and Cadet.  Ares with Jeff Wells and Nestle with Angie Jones battled it out for 1st Place Top Gun with the win going to Ares for his 6' 10" grab.  A brand new EV Cadet Team made their appearance - our own Junior Handler Emi Cervantes with Fudge.  Fudge absolutely thrilled Emi and the rest of the family and crowd with her first grab of 4' 10".  Fudge just turned one so we're looking for even higher grabs in her future.

For another more experienced Junior Handler, this competition almost resulted in Andrew Fisher going along for the leap with Morgan.  Morgan was just so psyched to play EV, that when they got on the dock, she dragged Andrew at a run for the bumper.  Luckily, after a tumble and a drag more than halfway down the dock, he managed to stop her because that water was really cold and muddy!  They grabbed all the way up to 5' 10" for a 1st Place Cadet finish.

In Big Air we had the debute of a brand new team - Susan Hetrick & Coleman.  At only seven months old, Coleman jumped 6' 2" and 6' 3" in his first wave.  In his second wave he jumped 6' 1" and 7' 3".  We're looking for continued bigger jumps for this puppy.  Another young pup, Henry with Eric Beauvais, also made a huge improvement over his old personal best of 6' 6" with Alexandra Beauvais.  Henry jumped a big 16' 3" jump for 1st Place in Junior Finals with Emi & Fudge following in 2nd Place with a 14' 1" jump.

In addition to all the new pups, we had the retirement of an old team.  Dale Ginder recently turned 50, and decided to hand over reins of Team Hatcher to Chris Ginder.  Unfortunately, this weekend, Hatched suffered from cold tail and did not get to jump on Sunday for the grand finale with Dale.  We wish Chris lots of luck to jump big in the future.

Keystone also had a big showing in the Top 12 taking six of the twelve spots:

4th Place - Taylor Rohrbaugh & Nestle
5th Place - Tim Kline & Bella
7th Place - Angel Cervantes & Chocolate
8th Place - Suzanne Cannon & Gauge
9th Place - Andrew Fisher & Morgan
11th Place - Sharon Rodgers & Thunder

Congratulations to all the competitors and we hope to see you soon.  Click Here for Keystone Event Stats and Here for complete event results.