Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Decorated Star Strikes Again!~ By Kyle

(My first try at a "sports" article :-))
He is incredible! He is amazing! He is my little bro Joe-Joe "Snuckes" Bowes!




Joe-Joe Bowes, pictured with several of his trophies above, wrapped up an incredible fair season Monday with an unheard of and record breaking showing at the 2012 Puyallup Tractor Pull Show. This all came after a surprising decision by Joe-Joe to not compete in the Mutton Bustin competition at Puyallup (in which he finished third last year), but perhaps this decision paid off in the end. You see this was no little thing; the pool of  players who entered the tractor pull was numbered at fifteen or so including his older brother Timmy Bowes (who would finish second in the competition), and Joe would need all his strength to pull off his amazing victory. As he pushed his way through pull after pull of elimination rounds little did Joe know that his main opponent would be his brother Timmy, who stayed with him till the fourth round and earned a well-deserved second place. But after Timmy just barely was unable to make it all the way through the fourth round the stage was set for Joe-Joe... and boy did he come through! He pulled 200 pounds, the amount of weight the 10-year olds start out with, all the way to the finish and became only the third-or-fourth tractor-puller in the history of the event to enter into the fifth round. In the fifth round he was tasked with pulling 250 pounds, the amount the twelve-year olds start with, and pulled this massive amount of weight quite a ways before falling just short of finishing that round.
 So what is next for this champ? The future can only tell. Keep riding your bike hard Snuckes! And we will see you next year!
Below is the video coverage of the event.
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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