Final results of Neches Wilderness Canoe Race released

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August 7, 2012

Final results of Neches Wilderness Canoe Race released

Staff Reports CNHI The Palestine Herald-Press Tue Aug 07, 2012, 09:21 AM CDT

Full results from the 22nd annual Neches Wilderness Canoe race were released Sunday.

Gaston Jones won the race and its most prestigious class, the solo unlimited class. Jones finished the race in three hours, 35 minutes, 18 minutes ahead of second-place finisher Steve Watson. Danny Frazier (3:58) finished third.

Nathan Tart and Garrett Jones won the Texas Canoe Racing Association (TCRA) aluminum class, finishing in 3:55, with Bobby Smart and Jim Pye finishing second and Morgan Kohut and Bill McCanse finishing third.

Grant McDonald won the solo canoe class in four hours, 44 minutes. Larry Staten and Tony Okrongly finished second and third, respectively.

In the races largest class — adult male solo kayak — Donny Mayes finished first in 4:26, followed by Brandon McGee and Randy Jones.

Bruce Bodson (4:32) won the senior male solo kayak division, with Richard Linden finishing second and Jimmy Fondara third.

Nancy Bowers crossed the finish line in 4:50 to win the adult female solo kayak division, with Vanessa Adams and Heidi Baily coming in behind her. Mary Carter won the senior female solo kayak class.

George and Josh Davis won the junior tandem canoe class, which had to have at least one of its participants be under 17 years of age. The duo finished in six hours, 24 minutes. Cooper Adams and Justin Bullard finished second, with Morgan Gilley and Johnathan Harding finishing third.

Steve and Dixie Ligon won the mixed tandem canoe class in 5:33. Melodie Bruner and Kevin Gros finished second, followed by Jerry Newhouse and Amie Lundy.

Omar and Johnathan Garcia finished the race in five hours, six minutes to win the adult male tandem canoe class. Josh and David Caulkins finished second, while Zachariah Patton and Samuel Hazel came in third.

Marvin and Charles Parker won the senior male tandem canoe class.

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