COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Mason-Dixon Clay Busters picked up their second national title, in the Collegiate Division, with their 275 target win in Doubles Skeet at the 2016 Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) National Team Championships in Ohio. They also won the Trap title.

The Mason-Dixon squad from Pennsylvania was led by the women's Top Gun shooter, Shelby Evens of Carwford, Ga., who broke 95 of her 100 targets. Evens was followed by Preston Whiteman of Camp Hill, Pa. with 91 and Mark Beardsley of Glen Rock, Pa. with 89.

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.

Second place in the division went to the Haywood Young Guns of Tennessee. Led by Michael Hunter Campbell of Somerville with 89, Ford Ellington of Brownsville and Jacob Winters of Henning, each with 86, combined for a total of 261 targets.

The Jacksonville University Sporting, Skeet & Trap Team finished third with 244 and were led by Parker Woodring of Carmichaels, Pa. with 88, followed by Benji Felder of Jacksonville, Fla. with 87 and Joe Byron of Phoenixville, Fla. with 69.

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.

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