COLUMBUS, Ohio – Florida's Young Guns At Quail Creek picked up the first of two national titles in Sporting Clays with their 513 target run in the Intermediate/Advanced Division at the 2016 Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) National Team Championships in Ohio.

The Young Guns were led by Landon Smoak of Lake Placid with 176, followed by Joseph Fanizzi of Okeechobee with 174 and Bryan Quigley of Fort Pierce with 163.

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.

Breaking 481 targets, the Forest City Juniors from Georgia finished second in the division and were led by Walker McDonald with 169, followed by Kline Barfield with 159 and Jake Summerford with 153. All three shooters are from Savannah.

Third place went to Pennsylvania's Hunting Hills Hawkeyes who broke 477 of their 600 targets. The trio of Waynesburg shooters were led by the division's Top Gun, Tristan Cole, with 177, while Arran Hinerman added 156 and Hunter Orrahood another 144.

Georgia's Lake Oconee Shotgun Team took fourth with 466 total targets. Leading the squad was Riley Downs of Mitchell with 170, followed by Hagen Young of McIntyre with 154 and Jonah Grimes of Eatonton with 142.

Michigan's KCCL Orange Crushers rounded out the top five by breaking 460 targets. Jake Lotterman of Ada led with 158, followed by Soren Hanson of Lowell with 156 and Jadon Butler of Sherdian with 146.

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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