FRIDAY, JULY 21, 2017   ■   COMPETITION

Ohio's Buckeye Chippewa Trapshooting Club Takes Open Division National Title in Bunker Trap

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Breaking 225 of their 300 targets, the Buckeye Chippewa Trapshooting Club of Ohio claimed the Bunker Trap title in the Open Division during competition at the 2017 Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) National Team Championships.

Buckeye Chippewa was led by the high overall shooter, Chase Jindra of Spencer, with 86 targets. Wooster shooters Jacob Butdorf and Emanuel Butdorf added 70 and 69 targets each towards the team's championship run.

Held July 8-15 at the Cardinal Shooting Center in Marengo, Ohio, more than 2,300 athletes representing 29 states faced over one million clay targets during eight days of competition in the shooting disciplines of Trap, Skeet and Sporting Clays.

Wisconsin's Flyway Clay Slayers finished second with 218. Nicholas Mader led with 83, followed by Evan Marx with 69 and Madeline VanderSchaaf with 66. All three shooters are from Mayville.

Third place, with 187 total targets, went to the William Blount Shooting Team of Tennessee. Todd Hitch and Rodney (Seth) Murphy, both of Maryville, broke 66 targets each, followed by Caleb Harbin of Louisville with 55.

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 14,800 students and more than 3,300 adult volunteers across 45 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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