State Forestry
Rusk places 3rd

Nickey Goodman, Wil Robinson and Kevin Kadlecek took third place winnings at the state forestry contest.

Rusk High School's forestry team, composed of Nickey Goodman, Wil Robinson and Kevin Kadlecek, took third place state honors last week.

They scored three points behind the second place team and 11 point behind first place.

Kevin came in second high point out of 139 contestants from 41 FFA teams.

The Rusk team will compete in the southern regional forestry contest in Louisiana Thursday and Friday.

The southern regional contest is by invitation for the top three teams from Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma.