With the 53rd Annual Cornhusker Trapshoot less than two weeks away, Blair Youth Shooting Sports' range hosted an Eastern Cornhusker Trapshooting Conference (ECTC) Junior event Saturday morning.
Crusader 4-H won with a 207 score, while the Fremont Black lineup of Hudson Knoell, Drake Daubert, Jack Fletcher, Caiden Stover and Clayton Coe was second with 197 targets.
The Blair Gold lineup, meanwhile, finished with 168 clay targets down — the same total produced by BYSS' Silver squad.
Evan Brodersen of the Silver squad led all BYSS marksmen with 42-for-50 showing. Colton Nixon hit 40 clay pigeons, too, while Jase Lantry and Tregan Baker took out 36 apiece.
Greyson Nichols (35 targets), Ryker Vilwok (33), Jackson Kempcke (32), Erik Snell (30), Camden Clements (28) and Landry Benoit (24) competed on their home rage as well.
Grady Davidson of Papillion-La Vista was the North Division Junior Shoot's champion, taking out 48 of the 50 targets he aimed at with his shotgun.
BYSS next hosts the Blair Buckle Shoot on Saturday before Washington County's best marksmen and women travel to Doniphan for the Cornhusker Trapshoot April 27-29.
Seniors shoot at Papillion, Valley
Washington County high school shooters competed in Papillion and Valley last Saturday, too.
Kalvin Kies and Hayden White led the effort for Blair in Papillion during their ECTC shoot. Kies was second from 24-25 yards and finished second in the high overall male category, hitting 90 targets out of the 100 he faced.
White, meanwhile, was first from 20-21 yards, going 46-for-50 from the distance.
Morgan Shaner, a Fort Calhoun marksman competing with BYSS, hit 88 clay targets and Triston Clausen took out 87. Gaige Bolton hit 86, Jaydyn Backman shot 85 and Tyler Hume hit 83.
Blair's Revlyn Rasmussen, Roman Sahm, Jager Leichleiter, Elijah Tabor, Wyatt Blackford, Riley Brodersen and Harold Kies took out 80 clays or more, too.
At the Valley range, the Fremont Black squad — including its Arlington talent — finished second in the handicap shoot. Wyatt Widman finished second in the high overall male standings after taking first from 24-25 yards and second in the 16s shoot.
Abby Johnson, meanwhile, was first in the high overall female and handicap standings as Kaleb Dowling added a third-place showing from 22-23 yards. Arlington marksmen Cade Arnett and Zane Gerrish rounded out the Black squad's effort, too.
