Columbus, OH -(AmmoLand.com)- Fresh off their title win in Handicap Trap, the Buckeye Chippewa Trapshooting Club picked up its second national title win breaking 964 targets in the Trap Junior Varsity Division at the 2016 Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) National Team Championships in Ohio.
Shane Marshall of Medina led the Ohio squad’s effort with 197 of a possible 200 targets, followed by Dakota Schandel of Gnadenhutten with 195, Bryce Posten of Rittman and Mason Cox of Copley, each with 194, and Logan Fletcher of Rittman with 184.
Held July 9-16 at the Cardinal Shooting Center in Marengo, Ohio, nearly 2,200 athletes representing 28 states faced more than 961,000 clay targets during eight days of competition in the shooting disciplines of Trap, Skeet and Sporting Clays.
The Cumberland County Clay Crushers of Tennessee finished seven target back with 957 in second place. Taylor Webb of Crossville led the team with 193. Justin Reed, also of Crossville, finished with 193, followed by Corbin Moore of Rockwood with 192, Clint Kemmer of Crossville with 191 and Darren Kittrell of Oakdale with 188.
Third palace went to another Volunteer State team, the Brothers In Arms squad from Christian Brothers High School in Memphis. Combining for a total of 955 targets were Will Wolbrecht of Germantown with 194, Seth Cooper of Piperton with 194, Thomas David McNamara of Eads with 190, Patrick Koch of Germantown with 190 and Michael Brungardt of Olive Branch with 187.
A pair of Missouri teams rounded out the top five with the Branson Trap Team taking fourth with 941. Branson was led by Jacob Penrod of Branson with 192, followed by Trenton King of Walnut Shade with 190, Quinton Hinds with 189 and Tyler Vickers with 186, both of Branson, and Jerry Ball of Kirbyville with 184.
The Arnold Junior Shooters took fifth with 939. Noah Schmitz of St. Louis shot 194, followed by Nathan Davis of Kansas City with 190, Carson Frink and Ryan Loveless of Imperial with 186 and 185 each, and Kirstan Pfeiffer of Barnhart with 184.
The Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) is a youth development program in which adult coaches and other volunteers use the shooting sports of Trap, Skeet and Sporting Clays, as well as the Olympic disciplines of Bunker Trap, Trap Doubles and International Skeet to teach and to demonstrate sportsmanship, responsibility, honesty, ethics, integrity, teamwork, and other positive life skills. Nationally, there are nearly 13,700 students and more than 2,900 coaches from 43 states participating in the Scholastic Clay Target Program.
The Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation, Inc. (SSSF), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is the National Governing Body for the Scholastic Clay Target Program. SCTP was started by the National Shooting Sports Foundation in 2001.
For more information about SCTP and SSSF, visit www.sssfonline.org. You can also follow SCTP on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ShootSCTP or www.instagram.com/scholasticshootingsports @ScholasticShootingSports on Instagram.
About the SSSF:
The Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation (SSSF) is responsible for all aspects of the Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) and Scholastic Action Shooting Program (SASP) across the United States. SCTP and SASP are youth development programs in which adult coaches and other volunteers use shooting sports to teach and to demonstrate sportsmanship, responsibility, honesty, ethics, integrity, teamwork, and other positive life skills. SCTP was developed as a program of the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) until the SSSF was created in 2007 to operate the SCTP. In 2012, SSSF created the SASP and became the managing foundation of both programs.
For more information about SSSF, visit www.sssfonline.org.