When it comes to pit-spitting, it is tough to beat the Krause family, who on Saturday maintained their dominance in the 41st International Cherry Pit-Spitting Championship in southeastern Michigan.
Brian Krause took top honors with a distance of 24.59m said Monica Teichman, who runs the market at Tree-Mendus Fruit Farm in Eau Claire.
Coming in second this year was Brian’s father, Rick, with a spitting distance of 23.66m, while Kevin Bartz took third with 19.71m.
Last year’s big winner was Matt “BB Gun” Krause with a loogie that flew 12.66m.
The Krauses have won 26 of 41 of the contests since farm owner Herb Teichman held the first in 1974 as a lark, but also to mark the local tart cherry harvest.
Brian Krause holds the record spit of 28.51m, set in 2003.
More than 100 people tried to qualify Saturday for the championship round.
A strong breeze may have accounted for the long distances after organizers changed the direction of the spitting, Monica Teichman said.
“The breeze felt good, but ... it wasn’t good for the spitting. We needed to change because we would have been spitting into the wind,” she said.
This year’s winner received tee time at a golf course, a plaque, a medal, work gloves, a drill bit set and various gift certificates.
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