Demons Dominate at SCTP State Shoot
The Burlington High School Demons Shooting Team once again came out on top of the Wisconsin Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) State Trap Shoot by taking first place in four of the five age categories at the annual event held on Saturday June 16th at the Waukesha Gun Club.
Four-hundred ninety-one young athletes from twenty-five SCTP programs from across Wisconsin came to give their best shot at the state title and to qualify for the opportunity to go to the SCTP Nationals in Sparta, IL next month. Each shooter shot four rounds of twenty-five targets with the top-five scores from each team counting toward the team total.
Proving the high level of competition for junior shooters in Wisconsin is the fact that eighty-six of the participants broke ninety or more targets, nearly twenty percent of the total of young athletes who took part in the event.
The streak continues for the Burlington Varsity team who has won every event dating back to the beginning of the 2011 season and made another loud statement heading to the SCTP Nationals by breaking of 489 of a possible 500 targets. The Demons were led by junior Myles Walker who posted the only perfect score of the day and was joined on the podium by Christian Jensen (98), Devon Stickrod, Terry Carr and Josh Crisimagna who all carded 97's. The defending SCTP National Champs bested runner-up Beaver Dam by twenty-two targets and third place Milwaukee Marquette by thirty-three targets. Demons shooters took eight of the top sixteen places in the Varsity category all breaking 96 or more targets with Ethan Kerr (97) along with Jordan Hintz (96) and Cody Schilz (96) near the top of leaderboard out of the 170 Varsity participants.
Not to be outdone, the Junior Varsity team of Alexa McCarthy (98), Clayton Deford (96), Nolan Schenning (93), Melanie Uhlenhake (91) and Daniel Santos (90) tallied 468 to easily take the first place award over runner up Fond du Lac by twenty-three targets and Daniel Boone by thirty-three.
Intermediate Advanced squad of Cody McCarthy, (96), Cullen Kruser (94), Hunter Conrad (94), Austin Jensen (87) and Weston Uhlenhake (85) totaled 457 to best the Sauk County Youth Shooting Team by twenty-two clays. Westosha Central was third at 419.
The Golden Beavers of Beaver Dam took the top spot in Intermediate Entry with a 429 over Waterford's 404 and Marquette's 392. Gavin Clayton was the Demons top shooter with an 80.
The future of the Demons team is bright as the rookie squad of John Kubiak (61), William McCarthy (57), Courtney Uhlenhake (56), Wyatt Wilken (53) and Kalvin Johnson (53) broke 280 targets topping Central and Wilmot's Rookie squads.
Walker's perfect score earned him the Varsity individual champion trophy and is the first 100 by a Demon shooter this season so far. Alexa McCarthy's personal best of 98 earned her the Ladies champion award. Clayton Deford brought home third place in Junior Varsity for his 96 along with Cody McCarthy who won second in the Intermediate Advanced category for his 96.
Over the next two weeks, the Demons will participate in several other SCTP State events including Sporting Clays, Wobble Trap and Skeet as it prepares for the upcoming SCTP Nationals held next month in Sparta, IL., where the
Demons Varsity team is hoping to repeat as National Champions for the second consecutive year as well as the SCTP International Championships held in Colorado Springs in August where the Demons are reigning Double Trap champions.
Complete scores are available at www.shootersPost.com.
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Respectfully submitted, PH
Perry A. Hintz
phintz36@wi.rr.com