COLUMBUS, Ohio – Breaking a total of 524 targets, the Junior Varsity Division squad for the Young Guns At Quail Creek out of Florida won the team's second national title in Sporting Clays during the week-long competition at the 2016 Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) National Team Championships in Ohio.

Kagen Long of Polk City led the Young Guns with 180. Joseph Pinchin of Pembrook Pines broke 177 targets while Ashley Blenker of Cooper City, the division's female Top Gun, added another 167.

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.

Georgia teams swept the next three spots with Etowah Valley Mambas taking second with 513. Hunter Rolader of Lakemont led with 176, followed by Wyatt Leger of Buford with 171 and Camryn McCraney, also of Buford, with 166.

The Brookline Top Shots placed third, breaking 505 of their 600 targets. Tyler Coleman of Milledgeville topped the squad with 170. Chet Thompson of Macon and Ridge Chambers of Milledgeville broke 168 and 167 targets, respectively.

Finishing fourth with 500 were the Forest City Juniors. The squad's top shooter was Colin Davis of Statesboro with 182, followed by Lance Longgrear with 161 and Tripp Longgrear with 157, both of Richmond Hill.

Southern Shooting Sports of Tennessee rounded out the top five. Isac VanWormer of Cunningham broke 176, with Fred Peters of Clarksville (170) and Tucker Ray of Adams (146) adding to the team's final 492 target count.

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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