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Accokeek, MD --Team Beretta shooters recently achieved 6 podium finishes between 2 different regional competitions.
Team Beretta members, Anthony Matarese and Diane Sorantino, attended the Eastern Shore Open at Hopkins Game Farm in Kennedyville, MD. Concurrently, one of our junior team members, Jared Greenwood, attended the Kansas Sporting Clays Championship at Flint Oak Hunting Club in Fall River, KS.
Matarese, shooting with a DT11, topped the podium in the main event with a score of 98 out of 100 targets.
Sorantino, who shoots a Beretta A400 Xcel, also achieved champion honors in the ladies’ main sporting event with a score of 89 targets, besting her nearest competitor by 6 targets.
Greenwood achieved several first-place finishes in 4 different events at the 2018 Kansas Sporting Clays Championship. He topped the podium as the Kansas State Junior champion with a score of 185 targets, a score that also secured his place as the Kansas State resident high-overall champion.
“We are thrilled with the results that the Team Beretta shooters have been delivering throughout this 2018 season,” Brenda Morgal, Marketing Operations and Events Manager at Beretta USA, said. “With only 4 1/2 months left until the end of the competition year, which culminates with the National Championships in San Antonio, TX, we know that our team will continue to perform at the stellar level that they have achieved thus far.”
Greenwood also achieved champion honors in the preliminary, Oakley Cup Junior, and Wildcat Cup Junior events with scores of 96, 93, and 83 targets, respectively.
The team’s season will continue with the upcoming World English Championship in London from June 25-July 1 and World FITASC Sporting Championship in France from July 12-July 15.
About Team Beretta:
Team Beretta, founded in the early 1980s, is a team of professional shooters of various age and experience that compete as Brand Ambassadors for Beretta USA in the fields of trap, skeet, sporting clay, pistol, 3-gun, and precision long range competitive shooting. Since 1977, Beretta has led the way in all forms of competitive shooting sports and continues to strive for excellence. During the 2016 Olympic Games, Team Beretta shooters took ten out of the possible fifteen podiums in trap, double trap, and skeet shooting events. Team Beretta competes not only at the highest professional levels as well as national and regional competitions, but our shooters also mentor and train future competitors.
Beretta, established in 1526, is the oldest industrial dynasty in the world tracing its roots through 15 generations of continuous family ownership. Firearms bearing the Beretta name have been sold for almost 500 years. Beretta USA Corp. was founded in 1977 and supplies the standard sidearm to the U.S. Armed Forces. Today, Beretta manufactures, distributes, and markets a complete line of firearms, accessories, and apparel. Beretta also owns and operates six retail Beretta Gallery stores worldwide. For additional information, visit www.Beretta.com.
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USA Contact:
Kimberlee Eveland
301-283-2191 ext. 1384