Amanda Alger with her entry at the Pineywoods Fair

Nacogdoches High School’s Amanda Alger won Reserve Grand Champion Beefmaster in the heifer show at the 2023 Pineywoods Fair over the weekend. Amanda was one of several NHS students who won and placed with livestock or projects at the fair.

Goat Show

Matty Lockard – Grand Champion Senior Showmanship, fourth place in class and 15th in Grand Drive overall.

Cash Lockard – third place in class.

Courtney Claude – sixth place in class.

Hadley Sutterfield (future Nacogdoches Junior FFA member) – Reserve Grand Peewee Showmanship.

Ag/mech Show

Fire Pit – Blue Ribbon: Sadarius Jones, Braden Garrett and Jacob Reese. 

Spring Rocking Chair – Blue Ribbon: Christian Reese. 

Bench – Blue Ribbon: Ethan Wiggins and Jildardo Santoyo-Rodriguez.

Hay Feeder – Red Ribbon: Joshua Ramsey.

Firewood Rack – Red Ribbon: Amador Juarez and Juan Guzman.

Horseshoe Cross – Blue Ribbon: Michael Hickingbottom. 

Skinning Rack – Red Ribbon: Shane Thomas and Tucker TIndall.

Rabbit Show

Courtney Claude, placed 20th overall in market rabbits; Best of Breed Doe and Buck in the New Zealand breed and second place in breed with another New Zealand buck.

Megan Jernigan, placed fifth in the Netherland dwarf rabbit breed.