COLUMBUS, Ohio – North Scott shooters Jaydon Biles, Jacob Dies and Thomas Keeshan managed to take the 2016 SCTP Nationals by storm. The trio won the Doubles Skeet title after helping their squad-mates pick up both the Trap and Doubles Trap titles. All told, the North Scott Trap Team claimed five national titles during the 2016 Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) National Team Championships in Ohio, making them the winningest team at the event.

The three North Scott shooters all hail from Princeton, Iowa and combined for a total of 262 targets in the 300 target event. Jaydon Biles led with 93 targets, followed by Thomas Keeshan with 89 and Jacob Dies with 80.

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.

Second place in the division went to the Smokin' Guns of Montana with 254 targets. Connor Bergman of Laurel earned the division's Top Gun honor leading his squad with 94. Bergman was backed-up by teammates Preston Bailey of Columbus with 88 and Chase Stirm of Laurel with 72.

Georgia's Lake Oconee Shotgun Team took third with 252. Hagen Young of McIntyre and Riley Downs of Mitchell each broke 89 targets while Jonah Grimes of Eatonton added another 74.

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.

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