COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Haywood Young Guns of Tennessee outpaced the Allen Eagles Competitive Shooting Team to capture the Doubles Skeet title in the Intermediate/Entry Level Division during competition at the 2017 Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) National Team Championships.

Breaking 255 of 300 targets, the Haywood Young Guns were led by Brayden Smith of Bells with 94 followed by Eylan Morris of Bells with 83 and David Hendrix of Brownsville with 78.

The Lone Star State's Allen Eagles Competitive Shooting Team finished with 212 targets. The trio of shooters from Allen, Texas were led by Griffin Sacco with 72 followed by Garrett Koch and Owen Lyons who each broke 70 targets.

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.

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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