Follow-up: The Annual Milk Jug Curling Results

Thanks again to Pat Paeplow for the follow-up to our previous entry announcing the Tournament last weekend ..

Here is the story for the Milk Jug Curling Tournament. A reporter for the local newspaper (The Coos County Democrat) took some pics and I hope to forward some to you when they become available…………………

On Saturday night, March 4th, the Town of Whitefield came together to compete in the Inaugural Milk Jug Curling Tournament.

The Woodburn House Restaurant in Whitefield provided their lounge as a staging area for the event while competition took place on the skating rink in the Common.

Milk Jug Curling is similar to the Olympic sport of curling with the only difference being that instead of granite stones, competitors hurl jugs of frozen milk. Each team alternately throws three jugs of milk, vying to have their jug land closest to the bull’s eye which results in one point. Players may also hurl their jug at opposing teams jugs in order to knock them away from the bull’s eye. The winner is determined by which team has the most points after three rounds of play.

The event organizers, John Guest and Patrick Paeplow of Whitefield, were pleasantly surprised by the turnout. Twelve teams of three people competed for the right to declare themselves the winners of the Inaugural Tournament. “It started off as kind of a joke”, Paeplow, an employee at the Woodburn House Restaurant, said “then, people kept talking about it then people I didn’t even know started calling the restaurant for information about the tournament and we were like, ‘wow’ we’ve got a live one on our hands.”

Guest, declaring the tournament a success, said “I don’t think it’s something where we’re geniuses who calculated that this would go over really well, I think its just an attribute of our community where we want to come together and have some fun.”

Mr. Guest also took time to praise Steve Kennison, the town road agent in charge of maintaining the ice rink. “He deserves a lot of credit. Whenever its freezing cold and most people want to be in their living room with the heat cranked, its his signal to come out here in the middle of the night and freeze so kids can go skate and we can have goofy tournaments, hats off to him.”

The championship game was an event of high drama as Allison Marro’s Team Lactose Intolerant squared off against John Wyman’s Team Leche Frio. With the score knotted at two after regulation, the match headed into an overtime round. It looked as though Team Leche Frio would prevail as they had two jugs biting the Bull’s Eye as Patrick Paeplow came to the line for the final throw of the tournament. With the elements and the pressure of the moment working against him, Paeplow had thrown his first two jugs out of bounds. However, his final through barrelled into Team Leche Frio’s first jug sending it out of play then nudged their second one out of scoring range to become the closest jug resulting in one point which one the frame, the match and ultimately, the tournament.

“I have to give credit to Allison”, Paeplow said, “her sweeping on that final throw must have moved my jug half a foot, laterally. Curling is a team sport.

John Wyman couldn’t help but notice that the Event Organizer’s team had won the tournament. “I just find it odd, but whatever, it’s all for fun, right.”

Matt Houghton of Whitefield, whose team, Chef Matt’s Kitchen Crew, made it o the final four put it in perspective, “John Wyman is the sorest loser I’ve ever met.”

After picking up the Common, all the competitors headed back to the Woodburn House to toast in victory, wallow in defeat and talk about the prospects of a second annual Milk Jug Curling Tournament.

Well! Hopefully Pat will send us some pictures of the event

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