CONWAY — The 2018 Mud Bowl splashes off today at Steve Eastman Memorial Field at Hog Coliseum behind the North Conway Community Center. With six games today, six on Saturday and eight on Sunday, the the 20-game, 12-team tourney culminates in the Mud Bowl championship game on Sunday at 3:30 p.m.
Mud was made Thursday, with Sherman Farm donating the tractor that churned up the field, turning it into world-class mud, assisted by the North Conway Fire Department's hoses and the North Conway Water Precinct's water.
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