Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Kosko Dust Devils Rookie Squad Takes SCTP Doubles Skeet National Championship

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Kosko Dust Devils out of Indiana outpaced the Ben Avery Clay Crushers of Arizona to take the Rookie Division title in Doubles Skeet with 232 total targets at the 2016 Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) National Team Championships in Ohio.

Owen Knight of Macy, the Rookie Division Top Gun, led the Dust Devils breaking 85 of 100 targets. Backing up Knight were Damian Cowan of Wabash with 83 and Cayden Powell of LaFontaine with 64.

The Ben Avery Clay Crushers finished with a combined 156 targets. Stephen Hendrix of Glendale led with 58 targets, followed by Zyler Thomas of Anthem with 54 and Reid Tilly of Tolleson with 44.

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.

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.

For more information about SCTP and SSSF, visit www.sssfonline.org. You can also follow SCTP on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ShootSCTP or @ScholasticShootingSports on Instagram.