EAU CLAIRE, Mich. (AP) — Ronn Matt’s wife encouraged him to enter the annual International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship in southwestern Michigan on Saturday. It’s a good thing she did. The 46-year ...

(AP) Matt “BB Gun” Krause won his first-ever International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship on Saturday, returning the crown to a family that has dominated the annual competition in southwestern ...

EAU CLAIRE, Mich. -- When it comes to pit-spitting in southwestern Michigan, it's tough to beat the Krause family, who on Saturday maintained their dominance in the 41st International Cherry ...

EAU CLAIRE, Mich. — The Krause family can retain its bragging rights, but its claim to be a cherry-pit-spitting dynasty may be under siege by a 17-year-old girl. Rick "Pellet Gun" Krause repeated as ...

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Every first Saturday of July since 1974, people flock to a cherry farm in Eau Claire in southwest Michigan to see who can spit a cherry pit the farthest. For the past few years, a father and his son ...

EAU CLAIRE, Mich. (AP) — A 15-year-old Michigan girl said there was nothing special about the way she spit a cherry pit Saturday. “I just took a deep breath and pushed hard,” said Megan Ankrapp, whose ...

DULUTH — We don’t really have an official name for it — or one that we can all agree on anyway — but the yearly “DNT Pit Spit” (maybe this name will catch on) is nearing “tradition” territory. At the ...

Rick "Pellet Gun" Krause, of Tuba City, Ariz., spit a pit 51 feet, 3 inches Saturday for his 16th win at the International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship. Organizers say Krause entered on a ...

Dan Smith gives it his all in a pit spit competition. TRAVERSE CITY - Carolyn Walz said she's found the key to spitting a cherry pit the farthest. It isn't a high arch, she said, "I do the missile ...

Krause was crowned the most "spit-tacular" competitor at the event held Saturday at Tree-Mendus Fruit Farm, just north of the Indiana border. Krause's father, Rick, and older brother, Brian, had won ...