COLUMBUS, Ohio – Following up their national title run in Doubles Skeet, the Kosko Dust Devils of Indiana powered their way to a second title, breaking 471 targets in Skeet to win the Rookie Division in competition at the 2016 Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) National Team Championships in Ohio.

Leading the Dust Devils' effort was division Top Gun honoree Owen Knight of Macy who broke 189 of his 200 targets. Knight's teammates Damian Cowan of Wabash and Cayden Powell of LaFontaine each added another 162 and 120 targets in their title winning run.

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 Zion Christian Academy 4-H Shooting Sports team out of Tennessee took second with a total of 440 targets. Jackson Collier of My. Pleasant led the team with 165, followed by Fayth Layne of Columbia with 141 and Gaston Luna of Culleoka with 134.

Georgia's Brookline Top Shots placed third with 414 total targets. Trent Coleman of Milledgeville led with 173, followed by Evan Mixon of Toomsboro with 125 and Landon Byrd of Milledgeville with 116.

Fourth place went to the rookies from Arizona's Ben Avery Clay Crushers who combined for a total of 413 targets. Stephen Hendrix of Glendale led with 177, followed by Zyler Thomas of Anthem with 132 and Reid Tilly of Tolleson with 104.

The Cumberland County Clay Crushers out of Tennessee rounded out the top five with their final target count of 408. The Women's Top Gun in the Rookie Division, Carey Garrison of Crossville, led her team with 152, followed by Noah Gernt of Crossville with 146 and Isaac Sherrill of Crossville with 110.

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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