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OHIO STATE SHOOT The 135th annual Ohio State trapshooting tournament began on Monday, June 21st and ran until Sunday, June 27th at their homegrounds.
EARLY ON SCTP (Scholastic Clay Target Program) Day starts things off at the Cardinal Shooting Center in Marengo, Ohio, on Monday. They had an increase of 149 shooters from 2019 and managed 608 shooters in their 200 bird Singles event. Ryan Denes was high by himself with 200/200 for the individual award for the second time in a row. Winning for TRAPSHOOTINGUSA
the Collegiate team was Buckeye Chippewa Trapshooting Club. The Buckeye Club also won the Senior/ Junior Varsity and the Intermediate/ Entry Level. In the Senior/Varsity category Centerburg Youth Shooting Sports took the win with 955 and they also won the Intermediate/ Advanced division with 890. For the Rookie Division, it was Moulton Gun Club Youth Shooters with 756. This year they offered a high overall which combined scores from skeet, sporting clays and trap. The Buckeye Chippewa Trapshooting Club took the first award. Monday is also a fun day for shooters, as they compete in a 50 bird-22 yard Charity Handicap event. 1st place went to Kevin Sigler, 2nd
place was a tie--Breyden Paxson and Rife Denlinger, and in 3rd place was Travis Snyder. Then they moved onto a Miss and Out. They shoot one shot at a time from the historic concrete 27 yard marker from the last shot at Vandalia. You are able to buy-back in twice for $5. Colin Hotchkiss broke the first ten targets without using his buybacks while everyone else had already used theirs. John Thomas, who had used his previously, didn’t need any extra as he broke the 11th target while Hotchkiss used up both his and couldn’t break it. Taking third was Breyden Paxson. Tuesday’s events were honoring the 2020 State Champions, and in the Ryan Denes Singles there were only
BY JACQUE SNELLENBERGER four 100s broken. Ethan Keber (AA), William Brand (A), Dave Berlet (Senior Veteran) and Lady I shooter Hailley Ruhl. High in AAA were 99s and Michael Kemp came out victorious in the carryover. In the Madison Oswalt Handicap, a Sub Junior shooting from the 20.5 yard line named Lane Adkins broke the only 97 beating the rest of the field by two targets. In the Joseph Charnigo Doubles, 196 was high on the board and broken by Kyle Hamilton in Class AA. This left the 184s in AAA to carryover into the
