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2021 BUCKEYE OPEN
BUCKEYE OPEN 2021
Many were worried about the background, as the shot curtains were down, but they were replaced in time to begin the 2021 Buckeye Open at the Cardinal Center in Marengo, Ohio June 2nd through the 6th .
EARLY ON
Event 1, Legacy Restaurant/Bar Singles only had two 100s—Seth Cooper and Dale Bertuzzi Jr. Cooper took Junior Gold and Bertuzzi grabbed Veteran since there wasn’t a Champion trophy offered.The highest class, AAA, was won by Charles Hensley with a 95. In Event 2, the Red Bird Handicap, Gunner Hall from Circleville, OH had the high score of 98 from the 24 yard line.The final event of the day was the Event 3 Fishburn 100 Pair of Doubles. Junior Gold shooter Seth Cooper broke 195 to top the field. There were no competitors for the highest class in this event. Everyone figured it was due to the windy weather and the rain.
Thursday started with the Quality Inn Handicap and there was a 100 broken! Junior Gold shooter Emanuel (Manny) Butdorf had it for the win. In the Comfort Inn Singles, Tank Lunsford, Tate Hedrick, and Joe Charnigo each broke 100s and Charnigo won AAA class in the carryover. In AA it was Craig Blank, Ryan Denes, and Steve Corwin. Denes was victorious for the AA class. Dan Schock, Carl Schultz, and Donald Petroff had perfect centuries in A class with Schock winning it. Manny Butdorf broke his second 100 of the day and of his career winning Junior Gold. Michael Roese was the only one in B, as was Richard Henry in Class C. In the second Handicap of the day, the Event 6 Quality/Comfort Inn Handicap, Kevin BY JACQUE SNELLENBERGER Sigler, a Sub Veteran, was high with a 97.
Friday saw beautiful weather and (Sub Vet), Joel Etchen (Vet), and it showed in the rising number of Gunner Hall (Jr Gold). There was no entries. The first event of the day was carryover, because Charnigo was the the Summer Gobrecht Class Singles. only non category shooter in AAA There were 17 100s broken—five in class. The other top scores took their AAA, seven AA, two in A, two in B, respective categories. and one in C. After the fall out from EMANUAL BUTDORF the carryover into the Championship Singles, Michael Wengerd walked away with AAA, Richard Zombek AA, Dan Schock A, and Scott Berry in B. The category winners with 100 were Madison Oswalt (Sub Jr), Andrew Collins (Jr), Kennet Darroch (Sub Vet), Mike Fredericksen (Vet), Michael Stephenson (Senior Vet), and Summer Gobrecht (Lady I).
Mike Federicksen had the high score of 98 in the Joseph Charnigo Handicap. Joe Charnigo broke the high score of 99 in his own Doubles event, along with Dean Townsend
SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP
AARON WILLOUGHBY
Saturday was a gorgeous day with sunshine, mid 80 degree weather and a light breeze. Only 13 of 871 shooters broke the first 100 in the Browning Singles Championship. Twelve broke them in the second hundred, but Aaron Willoughby, Dirk Meckstroth, and Rick Springer (Sub Veteran) were able to put both of them together to break all 200. Springer went out in the first round of the shoot-off. Meckstroth missed his first bird in the fourth box to give Willoughby the Championship, while he fell to runner-up.
DOUBLES AND HANDICAP CHAMPIONSHIPS
It was another great day for Sunday’s Doubles Championship and 377 competitors took the line. In the end, there were four 99s—Michael Wengerd, Ian Darroch, Andrew Collins and Mark Isner all broke the near perfect score. Darroch broke a 20 in the shoot-off for the Championship, Wengerd took runnerup, Collins fell to Junior and Isner, who didn’t show up for the shoot-off, took Sub Veteran outright.
In the Eagle Golf Cart Handicap Championship, William Sheward Jr., Rodney Crump, John McCormick, and Ronald McGinnis earned a “ticket to the dance” with scores of 98. After a pair of 24s in the shoot-off, Crump won the Handicap title. McGinnis was the runner-up, McCormick took 3rd and Sheward ended as the Senior Veteran champion.
HAA AND HOA
Ian Darroch of Aliquippa, PA was this year’s High All Around Champion with the score of 393x400. Four
BUCKEYE OPEN SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP
CH AARON WILLOUGHBY KY 200 RU DIRK MECKSTROTH OH 200 AAA MICHAEL WENGERD OH 199 AA JAMES JOHNSTON PA 198 A ROBERT ZIMMERMAN OH 198 B RIFE DENLINGER OH 197 C RONALD GEESLING OH 196 D JEFF MILLER OH 194 LD1 SUMMER GOBRECHT OH 199 LD2 PEGGY ANN WISE OH 197 SUB JR MADISON OSWALT OH 194 JR AUSTIN POHLMAN OH 198 JR GOLD WYATT MILLER OH 198 SUB VET RICK SPRINGER OH 200 VET TOM NEAL IN 199 SR VET BOBBY HUBBLE IN 198
targets behind Darroch were runnerup Michael Wengerd, AAA winner Tate Hedrick and Sub Veteran winner Tank Lunsford. Joe Charnigo broke 971 of the 1000 target High Over All to win by five targets over runner-up Wengerd. Lunsford was again the Sub Veteran champion with his score of 962.
The Buckeye Open may have started off slower than they have been used to, but the attendance growth for the remainder of the shoot put them back into the comfort zone that is expected of a shoot at the Cardinal Center. n
IAN DARROCH
BUCKEYE OPEN DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP
CH IAN DARROCH PA 99 RU MICHAEL WENGERD OH 99 AAA JOE CHARNIGO OH 97 AA ELAINA MCCARTHY OH 96 A MARK BAILEY OH 97 B TIMOTHY MCMILLAN OH 96 C TIM BURRIS OH 94 D DAVID FISH PA 93 LD1 ELIZABETH TERNES OH 98 LD2 BETTY PETERSON OH 93 SUB JR DYLAN HALL IN 89 JR ANDREW COLLINS KY 99 JR GOLD SETH COOPER OH 96 SUB VET MARK ISNER WV 99 VET JOEL ETCHEN PA 98 SR VET RICHARD PARTIN OH 96
BUCKEYE OPEN HIGH ALL AROUND
CH IAN DARROCH PA 393 RU MICHAEL WENGERD OH 389 AAA TATE HEDRICK OH 389 AA KEVIN DAWSON OH 384 A TUFF HUTCHINS OH 382 B RIFE DENLINGER OH 382 C ALEX OHR PA 371 D ZACKARY ANDERSON OH 371 LD1 SUMMER GOBRECHT OH 384 LD2 PEGGY ANN WISE OH 379 SUB JR LANE ADKINS OH 375 JR ANDREW COLLINS KY 384 JR GOLD SETH COOPER OH 385 SUB VET TANK LUNSFORD IN 389 VET JOEL ETCHEN PA 388 SR VET MIKE DEHABEY OH 386 RODNEY CRUMP
BUCKEYE OPEN HANDICAP CHAMPIONSHIP
CH RODNEY CRUMP KY 98 RU RONALD MCGINNIS OH 98 3RD JOHN MCCORMICK OH 98 4TH RONALD SMITH OH 97 5TH IAN DARROCH PA 97 6TH AUSTIN CAMPBELL OH 97 7TH TATE HEDRICK OH 97 8TH AARON WILLOUGHBY KY 97 LD1 JENNIFER HEDRICK OH 96 LD2 SHARON COGAN OH 96 SUB JR LANE ADKINS OH 97 JR ETHAN GIBSON OH 97 JR GOLD BRENNAN KAMER KY 96 SUB VET DEAN TOWNSEND OH 94 VET STEVE CORWIN OH 97 SR VET WILLIAM SHEWARD OH 98
BUCKEYE OPEN HIGH OVER ALL
