Eggs and Cow Chips Go Flying at Schulenburg Festival
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Photos by Andy Behlen Jay Heinrich holds up with winning catch in the Egg Toss Contest. -
Pictured are (back left) Mark Vecera of the Schulenburg Young Farmers with winners of the Young Farmers Egg Toss Contest: front, from left) Junior Division - Chase Collins and Cale Collins of Katy and (back) Adult Division - Schulenburg natives Jay Heinrich and Cale Heinrich.
The Fayette County Record
The egg toss and cow chip throwing contests sponsored by the Schulenburg Young Farmers drew a large crowd at the Schulenburg Festival Saturday afternoon.
In the cow chip contest, Chase Collins of Katy won the junior division and Frank Bonno of Houston won the adult division.
The final round of the egg toss pitted some Schulenburg Shorthorn football greats against each other: Casey Taber and his cousin Tim Ford vs. brothers Jay and Cale Heinrich. If Las Vegas bookmakers had odds on the match, they would have probably picked Ford and Taber on account of Taber’s State football championship rings from 1991 and 1992. Taber, now a renowned orthopedic surgeon, was the quarterback on the 1992 team and later played for LSU. The Brothers Heinrich played for Schulenburg in the early 2000s - some lean years forShorthorn football.Mark Vecera, the Young Farmers official in charge of the contest, backed the teams up to 90 feet in what would becomethe final throw of the contest. Taber’s throw came in hot and a little low. Ford got his fingers on the egg without crossing the 90-foot line, but the fast-mover scrambled in his hands.
Next up we’re the Heinrichs. A drop meant Taber and Fordwould get one more shot. Cale, the younger brother, lobbed up a beauty. Jay pillowed it as it came in on target just over his right shoulder. He glanced at his quarry - no cracks - and hoisted it in victory as the crowd erupted in cheers.
This year’s 90-foot final round, as riveting as it was, came nowhere close to the recordsetting toss from five years ago. That was the year when Steven Sartain and Eric Oeding thrilled the audience with a clean 200--foot throw.