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Vicki Gallegos makes an attempt to keep a ball in play during Saturday’s Mud Splash 2007, a mud volleyball tournament at Loudy-Simpson Park. Nine teams braved the mud in a Craig Chamber of Commerce fundraiser, which raised $1,800 before expenses.

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Jason Rettman, of the Cook Chevrolet team, attempts to head off a volleyball before it goes out of bounds in the championship game of Saturday’s mud volleyball tournament at Loudy-Simpson Park. The Chevrolet team went undefeated up until the championship game, when it lost to Mathers Mudslingers twice — a team that the Cook team defeated in the opening match of the tournament.

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John Ungefug of the DECA team pulls himself out of the mud after his team lost in the semifinal championship game of Saturday’s mud volleyball tournament.

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While players from the Cook Chevrolet team, in the foreground, lay in the mud, team members of Mathers Mudslingers celebrate a point in the championship game of Saturday’s mud volleyball tournament. The Mudslingers lost their first game to the Cook team to start the tournament, before winning every game after that to win the tournament championship.

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Desiree Holland of the DECA/FBLA team duct tapes her shoes to her feet before the start of Saturday’s mud volleyball tournament at Loudy-Simpson Park. Several players did the same to help them gain footing in what proved to be a very slippery enviroment.

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Erin Copeland of Udder Mudders celebrates a point during Saturday’s mud volleyball tournament at Loudy-Simpson Park.

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