SSCS Clay Target Team Dominates States

CICERO — Many of the Sharon Springs Central School Clay Target Team Class 2A Conference 6 Champions had the privilege of qualifying and competing at the state level! These student athletes represented their communities and competed at States on June 7th, which took place in Cicero, NY. The students placed in the Novice, JR Varsity and Varsity levels! 

For the Varsity Level (combining males and females):

The top team member was Senior Aiden Bowerman who shot and hit 97 out of 100 clays! He ended up tying for 3rd place for the entire day shoot out of over 500 shooters!

Levi Knapp shot an incredible 91/100 clays and placed 52nd for the day!

Reed Vanvalkenburg and Sean Shults BOTH shot 81/100 clays on Saturday placing them overall tie-ing for 161st place!

Gavin Knapp shot and hit 77/100 clays placing him 196th for the entire day! 

For Junior Varsity level (combining males and females):

Sebastian Clemente hit 80/100 clays- his BEST shooting yet for the season and this placed him at states on 65th overall out of the JV level. 

Hunter Tansey hit 56/100 clays placing him 211th place at the JV level

For Novice level shooting:

Michael Moschetti shot his best this season and hit 72/100 clays! Placing him 21st at the novice level! 

Elias Clemente hit 66/100 placing him 49th place for the day. 

Benjamin Hoag hit 30/100 clays placing him 145th overall at the novice level.

There were also plenty of student athletes who qualified for Nationals with a 19 plus seasonal average. Their scores ranged from 19.40 to 21.70!

Congratulations to this hardworking team, especially to the Seniors! After this busy and successful season there will be a short two-month break and then in August sign-ups will begin for the Fall Season.

Interested in finding out more about the team or maybe even joining next year? Check them out on Facebook at SSCS Clay Target Team or on Youtube @SSCSclaytaget.