Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Southern Shooting Sports of Tennessee Take Rookie Div. Doubles Skeet National Title

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Southern Shooting Sports of Tennessee held off the Ben Avery Clay Crushers of Arizona to win the Doubles Skeet title in the Rookie Division during competition at the 2017 Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) National Team Championships.

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 Volunteer State's Southern Shooting Sports rookies were led by Isaiah Weakley of Ashland City who broke 84 of his 100 targets, followed by Miller Ward of Clarksville with 65 and Louie Lastik, also of Clarksville, with 62. The three combined for the title winning target count of 211.

Arizona's Ben Avery Clay Crushers finished with 174 total targets and were led by Stephen Hendrix of Glendale with 81. Zane Thomas of Anhem added another 47 with Gage Kinder of Phoenix contributing 46.

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.

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.