Scholastic Clay Target Program Up-date

Written by Mike Brog

Over $4400.00 was raised at the dinner in support of the CASCTP skeet
program, which brought the raffle total to almost $7000.00.
Again we would like to thank Dave Anderson who donated a free custom paint
job on the Remington 1100. Trigger Hill in Salinas for giving the program
the Remington 1100 at cost and John Herkowitz at Pacific Sporting Arms for
his on going support of the scholastic skeet program. The other gun in the
raffle was a Beretta Teknys from Pacific Sporting Arms.
We did run out of tickets which left some supporters out of the drawing.
Next year we will have more tickets available.

I believe that Billy has pictures of the winners with the guns. Cole Rommel
won the 1100 and our inductee Dave Anderson won the Beretta.

This year California will be represented by; Cole Rommel, Richard Riddle,
A.J. Hundal, Brian Foley, Jarrod Sammut, Talia Borg, Jonathan Merrill and
Richard Romero.

We had a total of eighteen shooters participate in this years California
SCTP State skeet championship.
Aeric Skinner of Ione a first time skeet shooter shot his first 25 straight
in his first 100. Then followed that with a first 50 straight.

California Crowns Youth Shooting Champs
Teams Qualify for Upcoming National Championships

NEWTOWN, Conn.-Young sporting clays and skeet shooters from across
California earned state titles-with many qualifying to represent California
at upcoming national championships-at the recent Scholastic Clay Target
Program (SCTP) California sporting clays and skeet state championships.

The competition, held June 28 at Stockton Trap and Skeet Club in Stockton,
featured some of California's top young shooters in varsity, junior varsity
and intermediate divisions.

SCTP, for youths in grades 12 and under, has been called the "Little League
of shooting sports." More than 10,000 students in over 40 states are
expected to compete in 2007. A program of the National Shooting Sports
Foundation, SCTP is managed in partnership with numerous sponsors, agencies
and organizations.

California teams participating in the state title shoot qualified for their
sport's upcoming national championships. Skeet national titles will be
decided July 13-15 at the National Shooting Complex in San Antonio.

The best of these young shooters could be selected to attend an Olympic
development camp in August in Colorado Springs, and some such as Cassie Ding
and Talia Borg, will go on to compete at the collegiate level.

For more information, visit www.nssf.org/sctp and www.casctp.org.

Results:
California Skeet State Championship
(held June 28 at Stockton Trap and Skeet Club, Stockton, Calif.)

Varsity Division (Grades 9 to 12)
1st Place-Ink Ballers, 590 out of 600 targets (Brian Foley of Bakersfield,
Talia Borg of Salinas, Cole Rommel of Cloves).
2nd Place-Salinas Young Guns, 441 (Jonathan Merrill of Salinas, Jarrod
Sammut of Salinas, Richard Romero of Salinas).
3rd Place-Not awarded.

Junior Varsity Division (Grades 9 to 12)
1st Place-Camanche Clay Busters, 501 out of 600 targets (Jacob Arthur of
Ione, Cassandra Ding of Ione, Aeric Skinner of Ione).
2nd Place-Northern California Long Shots, 491 (Kevin Nowell of Shingle
Springs, Joseph Gregorio Retherford of Suisun, Mike James Yaroch of Cameron
Park).
3rd Place-Northern California Long Shots, Senior Team, 248 (Matthew James of
Cameron Park, Austin Retherford of Galt, Drew Retherford of Galt).

Intermediate Division (Grades 6 to 8)
1st Place-Ink Ballers, 355 out of 400 targets (Richard Riddle of Bonsall,
Arjun Singh Hundl of Stockton).
2nd Place-Not awarded.
3rd Place-Not awarded

Rachel and Emily Shuford of Bakersfield also participated in the event. The
sisters are coached by their father Dan, with the help of Larry Siefers out
of Los Angeles.

www.nssf.org/sctp