WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2016   ■   COMPETITIVE SHOOTING

KCCL Orange Crushers Take Collegiate Div. Skeet National Title

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The KCCL Orange Crushers from Michigan took the Collegiate Division title in Skeet during the week-long shooting competition at the 2016 Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) National Team Championships in Ohio.

Brett Belrose of East Grand Rapids led the Orange Crushers with 196 targets as Hunter Brander of Ada and Logan Wilcox of Lowell added another 193 and 190 each towards the team's final target count of 579.

Pennsylvania's Mason-Dixon Clay Busters finished second with 576. Mark Beardsley of Glen Rock, Pa. with 195, led teammates Preston Whiteman of Camp Hill, Pa. (191) and Shelby Evens of Carwford, Ga. (190).

The Haywood Young Guns out of Tennessee placed third with 573 targets. Jacob (Jake) Winters of Henning finished with 193, followed by Michael Hunter Campbell of Somerville with 192 and Ford Ellington of Brownsville with 188.

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 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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