Clay Target Nation, July 2019
JULY 2019 CLAY TARGET NATION 73 and wrapped up Saturday morning under a slight wind with a final tally of 15 perfect scores The wind picked up considerably during the day taking its toll on both the 28 gauge event and the shoot offs only two made it through the first box of the 20 gauge shoot off with Giambrone victorious after two pairs into the second box leaving Dess Ivanoff as runner up Jim Nierzwick was third Debbi Perry was Lady Champ and class winners with 100s were Edwards AAA Jack Dean AA Michael Schlarman A and Mike OKeefe B John Lawson won C outright and Ross Carney won his shootoff for D1 Due to the windy conditions throughout the day the 28 gauge event saw only four 100 straights Despite the tough conditions the shoot off went a full round with Victoria Stellato the only one to break the last pair for the championship Dennis Lehman and Steve Wood continued on to decide the remaining spots on the podium with Lehman besting Wood John Strattos won AA with his 100 Ninety nines shot off for AAA with Ivanov the winner Ricky Laurito was at the top of A Class Tom Pavlack B Class and Wilfred Schoeplein D Class Mike Montel won his shoot off to claim C1 As usual the HOA came down to the baby bore The windy conditions during the previous day saw to it that no one was straight but there were six shooters down two targets and three more down three going in to the 410 any one of them could come out on top But well get back to that Since it was race day at the Indy 500 we expected to encounter a rain delay To everyones delight not only did it NOT rain there was hardly a hint of wind for the 410 event Brent Edwards posted a 99 on the first flight to take the clubhouse lead with a 397 One by the one the scores came in from the other contenders and Brent was still alone until Ivanov posted the fourth 100 straight of the day off the last flight to win the HOA Championship outright with a 398 Nice shooting Dess The four 100s in the 410 took to the field first taking all of six stations to crown the winner Dan Morris was first out taking AAA1 followed by Ivanov for third Dennis Trice missed on the sixth pair leaving the door open for Neal Whitney who got his pair and the championship Four 99s shot off for AA with Reg MID AMERICA HOA Champion Dessislav Ivanov 398 HOA Runner up Brent Edwards 397 HOA Third Dennis Lehman 396 HOA Lady Champion Victoria Stellato 395 HOA Lady Runner up Susan Huszai 391 HOA AAA1 Paul Giambrone 396 HOA AAA2 Victoria Stellato 395 HOA AA1 Gordon Novak 395 HOA AA2 Steve Wood 395 HOA A1 Hunter Dickerman 394 HOA A2 John Strattos 393 HOA B1 John Grehan 389 HOA B2 Kenny Riddile 387 HOA C1 Wilfred Schoeplein 379 HOA C2 Vicki Rogers 396 HOA D1 Nicholas Schoeplein 370 HOA D2 Cory Rosencrantz 351 HOA Junior Champion Hunter Dickerman 394 HOA Sub Junior Champion Trace Davis 379 HOA Triple Sub Champion Paul Giambrone 396 HOA Sub Sub Senior Champion Dessislav Ivanov 398 HOA Sub Senior Champion John Strattos 393 HOA Senior Champion Dennis Lehman 396 HOA Veteran Champion James Gast 384 HOA Senior Veteran Champion Richard Montel 358 HOA Retired Military Champion Dennis Jameson 382 HOA Military Veteran Champion Keith Brace 393 12 Gauge Champion Gordon Novak 100 20 Gauge Champion Paul Giambrone 100 28 Gauge Champion Victoria Stellato 100 410 Champion Neal Whitney 100 Doubles Champion Ben Gallup 100 FITASC Runner up Christian Suter 94 FITASC Prelim Christian Suter 94 5 Stand 50 bird Christian Suter 48 DeVito Memorial Jared Rumer 97 Pump Gun 50 bird Brent Hoover 48 Side by Side 50 bird Earle Glidden 47 p HOA Dess Ivanov and Lady HOA Victoria Stellato
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