Tevis takes top awards in swine show with ’Fred,’ ‘Wilma’

Rural Bellefontaine resident Ricky Tevis’ dedicated efforts toward working with and showing market hogs paid off Monday evening, July 10, at the Logan County Junior Fair Swine Show. She received two grand champion awards for her market barrow and market gilt, who are quite the pair.

The Benjamin Logan High School sophomore said the names for her Flintstones themed, grand prize heavyweight hogs are “Fred” and “Wilma,” which grew from her dad Todd’s idea to name the barrow “Fred.”

“I’m so happy and surprised with the win tonight,” the 16-year-old said, also noting the careful tending to her pigs that are a part of her day-to-day life. “I wash and walk my pigs every day, and I always make sure that they are comfortable in their environment.”
“She tries her heart out, and this win means a lot to her and our family,” her mother Stephanie said.

Ricky and her family enjoy showing hogs all around Ohio and in other states, including attending previous competitions in Des Moines, Iowa, and Louisville, Ky.

Ricky’s best friend, Madilynn Zedeker, also was part of the swine competition Monday night. Both girls are members of the Logan County Livestock 4-H Club.

Halie Johnson, 11, repeated her success from two years ago when she first entered the contest as a 9-year-old. She once again captured the reserve grand champion award for her market gilt. Her award-winning, heavyweight reserve champion gilt this year is named “Cassy.”

An incoming sixth-grader at Bellefontaine Middle School this fall, Halie is also a Logan County Livestock 4-H member as well and she also showed a market barrow she named “Blade.”

The reserve grand champion barrow award went to Lane Hill, 13, of Quincy, for his middleweight division champion barrow. The Miami Valley Producers 4-H member said he has been participating in fair activities since he was 4 years old, and he previously showed rabbits as well.

Lane will be an eighth-grader at Indian Lake Middle School in the fall and he also received the lightweight champion barrow.

Market barrows
Lightweight division
Class 1 — 1. Dalton McClintick 2. Aaron Rapp 3. Elizabeth Deardurff 4. Madison Buettner 5. Todd Kinninger
Class 2 — 1. Lane Hill 2. Matthew Beikman 3. Lila Adams 4. Landon Stoodt 5. Harper Kipker
Class 3 — 1. Landon Stoodt 2. William Case 3. Jessi Daugherty 4. Moriah Winner 5. Jaxon Snipes
Lightweight division champion: Lane Hill; Lightweight reserve champion: Dalton McClintick
Middleweight division
Class 4 — 1. Hayden Baxley 2. Zhoe Seeley 3. J. Owen O’Brien 4. Matthew Culp 5. Shyanne McClintick
Class 5 — 1. Lukas Johnson 2. Kinsley Dinovo 3. Johnston Forsythe 4. Carter Lyden 5. Gunner Bergman
Class 6 — 1. Lane Hill 2. Cie’ra Case 3. Chase Miller 4. Owen Stratton 5. Kristen Thompson
Middleweight division champion: Lane Hill; middleweight reserve champion: Hayden Baxley
Heavyweight division
Class 7 — 1. Georgia Bates 2. Annie Rapp 3. A.J. Bergman 4. McKenzie Forsythe 5. Avery McCarty
Class 8 — 1. Ricky Tevis 2. Lacey Schwieterman 3. Madilynn Zedeker 4. Kelly Titus 5. Brooke Black
Class 9 — 1. Halie Johnson 2. Tanner Anderson 3. Lane Kipker 4. Ty Anderson 5. Landen Jackson
Heavyweight division champion: Ricky Tevis; heavyweight reserve champion: Lacey Schwieterman

Purebred barrow division
Class 1 — 1. Zhoe Seeley 2. Aaron Rapp 4. A.J. Bergman 5. Keaton Snipes
Class 2 — 1. Kinsley Dinovo 2. Ricky Tevis 3. Elizabeth Deardurff 4. Annie Rapp 5. Titus Kelly
Class 3 — 1. Aaron Johnson 2. Ezra Winner 3. Mason Miller 4. Madilynn Zedeker 5. Kannon Rogers
Champion purebred barrow: Kinsley Dinovo; reserve champion purebred barrow: Ricky Tevis
Grand champion market barrow: Ricky Tevis; reserve grand champion market barrow: Lane Hill

Market gilts
Lightweight division
Class 1 — 1. McKenzie Forsythe 2. Savannah McClintick 3. Lux Kipker 4. Seth Jaunzemis 5. Harly Kinninger
Class 2 — 1. Elizabeth Deardurff 2. Ezra Winner 3. Moriah Winner 4. Seth Jaunzemis
Class 3 — 1. Aaron Rapp 2. Matthew Beikman 3. Mason Miller 4. Todd Kinninger 5. Cambria Tuttle
Lightweight division champion: McKenzie Forsythe; lightweight reserve champion: Aaron Rapp

Middleweight division
Class 3 — 1. Zhoe Seeley 2. Madison Buettner 3. Lisa Eastman 4. Lila Adams 5. Gunner Bergman
Class 4 — 1. Carter Lyden 2. Kaitlyn Adams 3. Konnor Barns 4. Keaton Snipes 5. Harper Kipker
Middleweight division champion: Zhoe Seeley; middleweight reserve champion: Madison Buettner

Heavyweight division
Class 6 — 1. J. Owen O’Brien 2. Carson Lyden 3. Cambria Tuttle
Class 7 — 1. Ricky Tevis 2. Halie Johnson 3. Hayden Baxley 4. Brock Bates 5. Jessi Daugherty
Class 8 — 1. Jaxon Snipes 2. Georgia Bates 3. Lukas Johnson 4. Lacey Schwieterman 5. Jaxon Snipes
Heavyweight division champion: Ricky Tevis; heavyweight reserve champion: Halie Johnson
Grand champion market gilt: Ricky Tevis; reserve grand champion market gilt: Halie Johnson

Ricky Tevis
Grand champion market barrow