2005 California "Open" State
Arm Wrestling Championship
Date: June 18, 2005
Place: Victorville California,
Mojave Narrows Regional Park
held in conjunction
with Huck Finn Jubilee, the largest bluegrass festival
west of the
Mississippi!
Sponsors: Huck Finn Jubilee
and SHED WORLD!
Time: HIGH NOON
Tournament Director/MC: Randy
Sampias
Sign-ups/ Scorekeeper: Cay
Sampias
Referees: Bob Eazor & Harold
Ryden
Contestants were lined up at
9am to sign-up and weigh-in! and they kept coming! If this tournament
had to be summed up in one
word, it would be "AWESOME"!
Shed World provided us with a
great stage and a bunch of collectable T-shirts again this year!
This tournament drew
competitors from across the country along with a bunch of the seasoned
veterans, and a whole new crop
of up and comers!
Our hats off to the team from
Arizona! These guys came to compete! They took several of the
first place titles back home
to Arizona! Good Job Guys!
Right Hand Bantam division
started off with a field of 12 competitors and some unbelievable
upsets from some new up and
comers!
RIGHT HAND BANTAM WIGHT
LEFT HAND BANTAM WIGHT
1st Jaimie Sheldon, Riverside,
CA 1st Jacob Smith, Carlsbad, CA
2nd Jacob Smith, Carlsbad,
CA 2nd Brent Norris, Quincy, LA
3rd Sean Meier, Highland,
CA 3rd Luke Cote, Great Falls,
MO
Right Hand Lightweight
Division saw Harold Ryden retain his title for the fourth consecutive
year!
RIGHT HAND LIGHTWEIGHT
LEFT HAND LIGHTWEIGHT &
MIDDLE
1ST Harold Ryden, San Marcos,
CA 1ST Eric Wolfe, Phoenix, AZ
2nd Brent Norris, Quincy,
LA 2nd Scott Partington,
Fullerton, CA
3rd Jeff Petritz, Victorville,
CA 3rd Harold Ryden, San
Marcos, CA
RIGHT HAND MIDDLEWEIGHT
1st Eric Wolfe, Phoenix, AZ
2nd Scott Partington,
Fullerton, CA
Light heavyweight division,
Heavyweight division and Super Heavyweight division saw Don McClary enter
all
three of these divisions and
go undefeated all day until the finals!. Then the cunning strategy of
Phoenix Arms,
the team from Arizona. The
last divisions of the day, the Arizona boys went to work on the seemingly
unstopable
Don McClary. No matter which
division we jumped to, McClary was on the table. This was an unbelievable
display tenacity and duration
by Don McClary. As McClary began to tire out, a fresh Arizona competitor
came to the
table and unseated McClary
from his first place position. MCClary had the crowd on their feet! He was
getting
little or no rest between
matches, with the next Arizona competitor on the table spurring on McClary
to get on
the table! It was a real
display of team work as they tactfully broke down McClary's stamina. WOW!
Hats off to McClary and the
team from Arizona!
RIGHT HAND LIGHT
HEAVYWEIGHT LEFT HAND LIGHT
HEAVYWEIGHT
1st Eric Wolfe, Phoenix, AZ
1st Eric Wolfe, Phoenix, AZ
2nd Don McClary, Moreno
Valley, CA 2nd Mike Wildey, Lake Elsenor,
CA
3rd Lynn Brower, Hawthorn,
CA 3rd Robert Coppla, Monterey,
CA
RIGHT HAND HEAVYWEIGHT
LEFT HAND HEAVYWEIGHT
1st Don McClary, Moreno
Valley, CA 1st Ruben Ruiz, Mesa, AZ
2nd Travis Libuse,
Victorville, CA 2nd Robert Coppla,
Monterey, CA
3rd Robert Coppla, Monterey,
CA 3rd Vance VanHoosen, Hesperia,
CA
RIGHT HAND SUPER
HEAVYWEIGHT LEFT HAND SUPER
HEAVYWEIGHT
1st Don McClary, Moreno
Valley, CA 1st Richard Chacon, Mesa, AZ
2nd Richard Chacon, Mesa,
AZ 2nd Anthony Marino, Apple
Valley, CA
3rd Larry Kibe, Hesperia,
CA 3rd Robert Petritz,
Victorville, CA
WOMENS DIVISION
1st Cynthia Triplett, Saugus, CA
2nd Sarah Sampias, Apple
Valley, CA
3rd Alicia Valdez, Hesperia, CA
A special thanks to our
referees, we had a good safe crowd pleasing tournament!
Also, a special thank you to
USA/WAF for their continued support and encouragement!
See You All Next Year!
Yours in Arm Wrestling
Randy Sampias
