The Willamette Agility Group Club is the best!! The Spring in to Agility Trial this past weekend in Monmouth was an awesome trial. 
The weather was good and the people were great!! An idea thought of by a club member was developed and grew in to the First Annual Willamette Cup at the Spring NADAC Games Trial. Everyone that helped create the Willamette Cup did a great job from how to score it, divisions, logo, prizes, and all the behind the scenes work. The final results were Novice, Open, Elite, Small, Medium, and Large Dogs scored on who had the most Qs in the first 11 runs; 4 Touch’N’Go, 4 Weavers, and 3 Tunnelers, Hoopers was not included. Ties would be broken by a Tunnelers round.
Jordana took Sunday off work to run 3 dogs in 12 runs. Hershey got all 6 runs of the day. He had a running contact on the first dog walk of the day and so Jordana took the training in the ring option and went back to remind him that we would like 2 on 2 off at the end of the contact.
Hershey seemed to learn something in Round 1 because he went on to Qualify in Round 2 giving him his Outstanding Novice Touch’N’Go title. Hershey and Jordana had a perfect Qualifying Elite Weaver 1 run. Hershey was over time in Weavers 2 with a bit too much arguing. 
Hershey also qualified in Tunnelers with a pretty good run with a little bit of arguing but he was still 1 second under time. They did not get a Hoopers Q. Over all they had a very good day and 
Jordana was pretty pleased with the 9 year old boy.
Slick and PITA each had 3 runs. Slick is pretty much done with competing; too much for him.
He can still come and practice and do demos if he would like but he did not have fun this weekend and especially for him it is all about having fun. PITA on the other hand had a lot of fun and did great. 
She and Jordana still made a couple of mistakes so they also ended up with no Qs but they are a great team to watch. PITA is SO FAST; 
Jordana is going to have to keep working on her handling to keep up with PITA’s speed.
Kant had one of the best weekends ever.
She was perfect all weekend and ended up with 11 Q’s and 11 1st Places. There was a Bearded Collie in her division that also qualified in the 11 runs for the Willamette Cup so there was a tie breaker run off between Kant and Polo. Kant ran the 8 tunnel course in 14.99 seconds 
winning the Elite Medium Dog Willamette Cup. 
I am very proud of my blue dog!!
I could not believe the pressure that the “Willamette Cup” put on a trial that is normally for us stress free since a Games Trial does not have any jumps. 4 dogs in the whole trial that was very full ran 11 perfect runs; 1 in Small Novice, 1 in Medium Open, and 2 in Elite Medium. There was also a tie in Open Large and Elite Large, so 6 dogs were involved in tie breaker Tunnelers runs. The crowd totally got in to the tie breaking runs with lots of cheering. Like I said in the beginning WAG is the best!!
Echo was so happy to be at the facility where she takes classes and comes to practice and play in the field but that quickly turned to frustration when she could not play.
But she still looked cute!! And she only has 2 months before she can start competing.
The weather was good and the people were great!! An idea thought of by a club member was developed and grew in to the First Annual Willamette Cup at the Spring NADAC Games Trial. Everyone that helped create the Willamette Cup did a great job from how to score it, divisions, logo, prizes, and all the behind the scenes work. The final results were Novice, Open, Elite, Small, Medium, and Large Dogs scored on who had the most Qs in the first 11 runs; 4 Touch’N’Go, 4 Weavers, and 3 Tunnelers, Hoopers was not included. Ties would be broken by a Tunnelers round.Jordana took Sunday off work to run 3 dogs in 12 runs. Hershey got all 6 runs of the day. He had a running contact on the first dog walk of the day and so Jordana took the training in the ring option and went back to remind him that we would like 2 on 2 off at the end of the contact.
Hershey seemed to learn something in Round 1 because he went on to Qualify in Round 2 giving him his Outstanding Novice Touch’N’Go title. Hershey and Jordana had a perfect Qualifying Elite Weaver 1 run. Hershey was over time in Weavers 2 with a bit too much arguing. Hershey also qualified in Tunnelers with a pretty good run with a little bit of arguing but he was still 1 second under time. They did not get a Hoopers Q. Over all they had a very good day and Jordana was pretty pleased with the 9 year old boy.Slick and PITA each had 3 runs. Slick is pretty much done with competing; too much for him.
He can still come and practice and do demos if he would like but he did not have fun this weekend and especially for him it is all about having fun. PITA on the other hand had a lot of fun and did great. She and Jordana still made a couple of mistakes so they also ended up with no Qs but they are a great team to watch. PITA is SO FAST; Jordana is going to have to keep working on her handling to keep up with PITA’s speed.Kant had one of the best weekends ever.
She was perfect all weekend and ended up with 11 Q’s and 11 1st Places. There was a Bearded Collie in her division that also qualified in the 11 runs for the Willamette Cup so there was a tie breaker run off between Kant and Polo. Kant ran the 8 tunnel course in 14.99 seconds winning the Elite Medium Dog Willamette Cup. I am very proud of my blue dog!!I could not believe the pressure that the “Willamette Cup” put on a trial that is normally for us stress free since a Games Trial does not have any jumps. 4 dogs in the whole trial that was very full ran 11 perfect runs; 1 in Small Novice, 1 in Medium Open, and 2 in Elite Medium. There was also a tie in Open Large and Elite Large, so 6 dogs were involved in tie breaker Tunnelers runs. The crowd totally got in to the tie breaking runs with lots of cheering. Like I said in the beginning WAG is the best!!
Echo was so happy to be at the facility where she takes classes and comes to practice and play in the field but that quickly turned to frustration when she could not play.
But she still looked cute!! And she only has 2 months before she can start competing.Thank you Joe Camp for once again providing me with great pictures for my blog.
Hi Traci! Have fun in Moab. I love the trial pic of Hershey with his mouth open in mid-bark. So true!!! ~ Cheryl
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