By: Chad Franzen Posted at: 07/12/2010 06:58 AM
CHADRON, Neb. (AP) - A Chadron man threw a chunk of buffalo manure 103 feet to win the 2010 World Championship Buffalo Chip Toss, but recent rains kept the throws well short of the records.
Michael Lorenzo won the event at Saturday's annual Fur Trade Days celebration in Chadron.
Lorenzo's toss was 8 feet better than the second-place finisher, but well short of the individual-event record of 186 feet, 7 inches. And the longest single throw in the competition came in the 1990 team event when a team member tossed a buffalo chip 204 feet.
The Chadron Rotary Club sponsors the event. Rotary member and Chadron Record newspaper editor George Ledbetter says the recent rains made it hard to keep the buffalo chips bone dry, so they tended to break apart when thrown.
