By Bill Aston
The Dillon County 4-H Shooting sports team traveled to The Triangle Gun Club in Newberry, SC on March 2 to compete in a South Carolina Youth Shooting Foundation skeet event. Eight team members attended the event shooting in 4 different divisions.Huston Hamer, shooting in the senior division, had the highest score overall (HOA) for that division breaking 71 out of 75 targets.
In the junior varsity division, the team of Cole Anders, Samuel Coleman, and Myers Hamer won 1st place. In addition to the team winning, Cole Anders was HOA for the junior varsity division. Myers Hamer was only one target behind Anders
The team consisting of Boone Campbell, Cooper Lane, and Davis Lockamy won 1st place in the rookie division. Boone Campbell was the HOA shooter in this division.
Lady shooter Tangie McFee won second place in the Ladies division. This was her first time shooting with the team.
The team will travel to the Backwoods Quail Club, near Hemingway, to compete on March 23, 2013.
Also on this date, two former Dillon County 4-H shooters competed in another event held in Jacksonville Florida. Player Aston and Cody Gasque, both from Latta, competed as team members of the Clemson University Shotgun team. The Clemson team won the South Eastern Collegiate Spring Invitational ACUI shotgun competition. The event consisted of three venues, trap, skeet and wobble trap. Eight different colleges had teams in the competition.
Aston, a senior at Clemson and Gasque, a freshman, formerly were members of the Dillon County 4-H shooting team and continued participating in the shooting sports once at Clemson. Aston was HOA in wobble trap in the event breaking 48 out of 50 targets. The Clemson team will travel to San Antonio, Texas at the end of March to shoot in the ACUI National where they will compete in trap, skeet, sporting clays, 5-Stand, International trap and international skeet. There are over 50 colleges and universities expected to compete in the event.