Shotgun Sports Wins National Team Title; Claims Seven Individual Crowns
Shotgun Sports won the Division I High Overall Team Title and Lions captured seven individual crowns at the National Collegiate Shooting Sport Athletic Association (NCSSAA) Clay Target National Championships March 13-19 at the Clark County Shooting Complex in Las Vegas. The competition consisted of 100 discs each in Super Sporting, American
Trap, trap doubles, sporting clays, American skeet and skeet doubles. Lindenwood hit 1,434 targets, placing 13th ahead of second-place Georgia Southern.
At the Super Sporting competition Grace Corselli took second place in the women after a jump-off with 82/100. Tristan Stubbs Second in the men’s category with a 91/100 on a challenging course. stub (91), Ethan Matthew (86), Reece sparks (86), Matthew Blankenship (85) and Clayton McGee (84) combined for 432/500 to tie Georgia Southern in the team event. There was no playoff, so the Lions shared the Super Sporting Team Championship with the Eagles.
Corselli shot 94/100 and finished second in the women’s American Doubles Trap. Jacob Diller, Ryan Kraemer, and Blankenship all tied on 97 to enter a playoff to determine the champion. Diller eventually won, with Kraemer second and Blankenship third. Blankenship (97), Diller (97), Kraemer (97), Ryan Loveless (96) and McGee (96) shot 483/500 combined to take the team title, finishing 14 shots ahead of Georgia Southern in second place.
In American doubles skeet, Corselli hit 97/100 to face University of Alabama’s Emmy Zerby. Corselli eventually won the women’s singles title after a six-shot playoff. In team competition Corselli (97), Sparks (96), Sam White (96), Loveless (95), and McGee (95) combined for a 479/500 to defeat the Crimson Tide in the single-goal team event.
Konnor Vohs, Wyatt SwiftAnd Christian Jackowski all with perfect 100s in American Skeet to enter a playoff. Jackowski missed out on third place early, leaving Vohs and Quick in contention for the title. The two were neck and neck on the next five pairs, but Quick missed his sixth pair, leaving the door open to Vohs. Vohs met his pair to secure the singles title by shooting 14 straight shots. In the team event, Jackowski (100), Quick (100), Vohs (100), Stubbs (99), and McGee (99) combined for 498/500 to take first place in the team event, scoring six goals ahead of Georgia Southern in the second.
In the American trap Jolene Dawson tied with Zerby from Alabama with a perfect 100 points. The upcoming playoff lasted six targets, with Dawson winning the women’s singles title after Zerby lost two targets. Two Lady Lions took third place and entered a playoff. Bailey Luders And Chloe Anderson matched until Anderson missed her 12th Shoot-off target, earning Bailey third place. In the men’s category, Diller and Mcgee tied with perfect 100s on Crimson Tide’s JT Osborne. McGee missed early in the playoff and secured third place. Osborne and Diller battled for several rounds before Osborne missed his 27th Vogel, giving Diller a chance to secure the title with another goal. Diller did just that to win the men’s title.
In the Team American Trap competition, Dawson (100), Diller (100), McGee (100), Anderson (99), Brad Phillips (99), Lueders (99), Stubbs (99), Blankenship (99), and Loveless (99) combined for 498/500 to take first place from Alabama with just two goals.
At Sporting Clays, Corselli tied Cheyenne Anderson of Georgia Southern for first place in the women’s category. The two went neck and neck in the first 11 pairs of the playoff and shot so well that the pair was switched to offer more of a challenge. From there it only took one pair to determine the winner and that was Corselli, who hit 24 straight shots to capture the women’s singles title. In the Men’s Individual Sporting Clays, Stubbs took the championship straight away, missing just a single target from his second 50 to post an overall score of 95/100.
In Sporting Clays Team competition Stubbs (95), McGee (90), Lane Hatfield (89), Jackowski (89) and Vohs (89) combined for 452/500 to take second place behind Georgia Southern. Other notable results came from Sparks and jake deanwho shot 88/100 each to just miss the team cut-off.
In the Ladies Division I High Overall Competition, Grace Corselli finished second with a score of 280/300. Tristan Stubbs won the men’s high overall title by four targets and an impressive 293/300. Clayton McGee went into a jump off with 289/300 and ended up second.
Scores in the Team High Overall competition Tristan Stubbs (293), Clayton McGee (289), Konnor Vohs (287), Ryan Loveless (283), Christian Jackowski (282) and Lane Hatfield (282) combined for the total of 1,434 that gave the Lions the Division I National Championship.
Lindenwood also competed in the Federal High Over All Collegiate Cup side event, which consisted of a combination of all 600 targets to determine a winner from a total of 3,000 targets. Matthew Blankenship, Jacob Diller, Ryan Kraemer, Ryan Loveless, Clayton McGee, Grace Corselli, Reece sparks, Sam White, Ryan Loveless, Tristan Stubbs, Ethan Matthew, Jolene Dawson, Brad Phillips, Chloe Anderson, Christian Jackowski, Wyatt Swift, Konnor VohsAnd Lane Hatfield All contributed points to earn a final score of 2,842/3000 and finish second behind Fort Hays State.
The Division I competition included teams from Boise State, Alabama, Charleston Southern, Georgia Southern, Nebraska, Utah State, Tarleton State, and Jacksonville. The Lions won a total of 26 trophies, including eight team-based crowns and 18 individual.
Complete Lindenwood NCSSAA Nationals results
