The Ginger Binger wins contest
photos by Heather Small-Hawley and T. Scott Boatright
Top photo: Caylan “The Ginger Binger” Dowden, left, and Damon “The Destroyer” Serginet, right, gobble peach cobbler during the Louisiana Peach Festival’s first Cobbler Gobbler contest on Saturday. Participants attempted to eat two pounds of professionally baked cobbler in five minutes.
Dowden, middle photo, raises his hands in victory after eating all of his cobbler in less than the allotted time. He won $1,000 and the official Cobbler Gobbler championship belt. The contest was sponsored by Hampton Inn in Ruston.
Bottom photo: Dylan Scott, a country singer from Bastrop, performs at Railroad Park to finish off the festival Saturday evening. Scott sang before a crowd of more than 500 festival goers. Other festival entertainers included Louisiana Swamp Donky, KATALYST and Zack O’Neil.
See more Peach Festival coverage in the 6/27/16 issue of Ruston Daily Leader.
