June 8th, 2024 Match Results
We had an incredible sunny June day with temperatures starting out in the 80’s moving up to the mid 90’s by noon. 67 shooters met up to ring some steel! We had 12 first time shooters join us thanks to the welcoming efforts of our awesome club members. Division breakdown totaled 6 Young Guns, 4 Ladies, 8 Old Guns, 5 Base, 8 Air Rifle and 36 Open Division shooters. We shot 8 fun filled stages and downed several cases of ice water. The top 10 spots were filled with Open, Young Guns, Ladies and Old Guns which shows the amount of diversified talent we have throughout all our Divisions. The top 15 shooters were only separated by 10 shots!!! This match was a scorcher for sure.
Speaking of scorching hot, Brandon Caldwell was absolutely on FIRE! Taking 1st place overall and 1st place in Open Division with an amazing score of 855.8. Dropping only 4 shots for the entire 8 stages! Awesome job Brandon. Alberto Perez didn’t make it easy for Brandon at all. Alberto also only dropped 4 shots the entire match, and it came down to a tie breaker! Alberto takes second by 14 seconds with a score of 854.4 for that silver tag. Chris Baxter also kept the pressure on both of them, dropping only 5 shots, moving to third place bronze with 846.5 points. The first three podium places separated by 1 shot and a couple seconds. Now that’s cooking with tannerite!!!
Speaking of explosive performances, Young Gun Easton Baugh says stand clear all you open shooters because I want into this group! Easton only dropped 6 shots the entire match, scoring just one impact behind Chris for 4th Place overall and 1st Place Gold in Young Guns Division with 836.8 points. Second place goes to Kaylyn Kingston, scoring 724.5 points for silver. Third place young guns goes to Teyl Peterson with his Air Gun! Teyl scores 623.3 points for that bronze tag. These young guns can really turn up the heat!
Stephanie Baxter turned up her own heat as well, also only dropping 6 shots for the entire match to tie Eastons score with an amazing 835.6, just 8 seconds behind Easton for 5th place overall and 1st place in Ladies Division. Louise Hoth lands 2nd place Silver with 682.3 points and Leah McBride takes home 3rd place Bronze with 572.2 points.
Old Guns tend to get cranky when things get hot, but these guys know how to handle the heat. Putting Old Guns in 9th, 10th and 12th place overall. Owen Fjeldsted takes home the Gold with his score of 805.5. Second place silver goes to Carey Palmer, just one shot behind Owen with 796.4 points. Scott Robertson was two impacts behind Carey with an incredible score of 773.0 for that 3rd place Bronze tag. Awesome shooting for our seniors.
1st place in Base division was owned by one of our newer shooters. Bill Pendleton scored 694.3 points for that Gold Tag. Seconds place Silver goes to Trent Garnand with 494.4 points and just 3 impacts behind him is Cody Hatch, scoring 462.0 points for Bronze. All of these competitors are some of our newest club members and are doing fantastic! WTG Base division.
Air Rifle is always fun with awesome people and great competitors. These rifles are amazing and Dusty Powers shows just how great they work by taking 19th overall and 1st place gold with a score of 724.5. Matt Stajduhar lands 2nd Place Silver, just 2 shots behind Dusty with 703.7 and Mike Kofoed takes home 3rd place Bronze with 612.6.
As many of our club members get ready to travel back to Wisconsin for the NRL22 Nationals, we want to wish them safe travels and to kick some major booty!!! I know our club will be represented well with the caliber of shooters we have. I also want to give out a special thanks to Carey, Owen, Jeromy and so many others who always go above and beyond to help with match setup and takedown after the match. This really makes things easier on me and I sincerely appreciate each and everyone of you. We hope to see you all next month! Practice hard, aim small, miss small.
Link to all scores: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nYbHb8FPCNuAnhgJmzqB_bNJAslLzXePkrLjn5j9fE8/edit?gid=229538711#gid=229538711
