Annual Tuscarawas County Canoe & Kayak Race sets off from Dover under balmy conditions

DOVER – Temperatures soared into the mid-90s for the annual Tuscarawas River Canoe and Kayak Race , Saturday morning, with racers coming into town from around the state and as far as West Virginia.

Nate Jones, a 24-year-old kayaker from Youngstown, arrived with his grandfather's hand-made wooden kayak to paddle. And Kevin Morgan, from Montville, in Geauga County, was competing this year in a 2-man canoe with his grandson, Milo.

The event was once again organized by Mary Jo Monte-Kaser, current president of the Ohio Division of the United States Canoe Association, and sponsored this year by the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District.

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During the pre-race boater meeting, Kaser said that paddling would be easy as the flow rate was hovering around 1.645 gallons per minute and, that the "paddle upstream is about the same as the paddle downstream."

For more information about the USCA and upcoming dates to remember visit www.ohiopaddler.com .

The Tuscarawas River Canoe & Kayak Race can also be found on Facebook .

Results

Legend: C= canoe; K= kayak; 1= one person; 2= 2 people; mixed= man and woman 3-Mile RacesSUP (Stand-up Paddleboard) Man 1st Jake Rabatin Montville, OH 0:40:54 K-1 Man - Sea Kayak 1st Brian Shoemaker Strasburg, OH 0:34:092nd Gary Wilcox Kent, OH 0:39:49 K-1 Man Short 1st Jaydon Miller Sugarcreek, OH 0:43:152nd Jake Kollar Bolivar, OH 0:45:533rd Kurt Reveal Dover, OH 0:51:544th Dan Johnson New Phila, OH 0:54:235th Jerry Johnson Dover, OH 0:54:25 K-1 Youth Short 1st Blake Reveal Dover, OH 0:53:55 K-1 Man Short Inflatable 1st Logan Andrews Dover, OH 0:46:01 K-1 Man Medium 1st Walt Markwell Wooster, OH 0:38:452nd John Kelly New Phila, OH 0:39:223rd Ric Walter Copley, OH 0:59:57 K-1 Woman Short 1st Gina Hayes Dover, OH 0:54:55 K-1 Woman Medium 1st Aurora Cooney Akron, OH 0:59:42 K-1 Man Long 1st Michael Kaser New Phila, OH 0:39:56 K-2 Mixed two names 1st Raquel Timm Bay Village, OH 0:32:541st Thomas Hull Conneaut, OH2nd Cathleen Misko Sugarcreek, OH 0:49:222nd Brad Misko Sugarcreek, OH C-1 Woman 1st Sarah Frank Austinburg, OH 0:43:08 C-1 Man Racing 1st Dan Masek Austinburg, OH 0:43:09 C-2 Men Recreation 1st Ken Schweitzer Newcomerstown, OH 1:02:211st Shawn Rose Newcomerstown, OH C-2 Over & Under - Men 1st Kevin Morgan Montville, OH 0:32:331st Milo Morgan-Ard Montville, OH C-2 Over & Under - Mixed 1st Charles Penrod Mogadore, OH 1:02:241st Delaney Penrod Mogadore, OH

5-Mile Races K-1 Unlimited Short 1st Nate Jones Poland, OH 1:01:44 K-1 Men Long Recreation 1st Tony Rivermouth Copley, OH 1:02:44 10-Mile Races C-1 Man 1st Jack Kangas Columbus, OH 1:48:40 K-1 Man Short Recreation Boat 1st Mike Putinski North Canton, OH 2:27:04 K-1 Man Sea Kayak 1st Richard Widman Tiffin, OH 1:43:542nd PJ Donovan Hurricane, WV 1:49:473rd Doug King Milford, OH 1:54:074th Eric Oldenburg Worthington, OH 1:55:24 K-1 Man Long Recreational 1st Andy Burnette Cleveland Heights, OH 2:03:332nd Bill Hoversten Cuyahoga Falls, OH 2:05:28 K-1 Man Long Unlimited 1st Adam Wilson Dover, OH 1:47:33 K-1 Woman Sea Kayak 1st Sharon Ramsey Hudson, OH 2:57:04 K-1 Woman Unlimited 1st Edna Spang Gibsonia, PA 1:51:52 K-1 Woman Long Recreational 1st Hilary Fiebig Canal Fulton, OH 2:32:29

T-R staff photographer Andrew Dolph can be reached by phone at 330-289-6072, or by email at adolph3@gannett.com . You can also find him on Instagram @dolphphoto .

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