With top two girls shooters at state meet, Mitchell takes second at high school trapshooting
Jun. 13—ABERDEEN — Mitchell had the top two female shooters in the South Dakota state high school clay target tournament's varsity division on Sunday.
Maddy Henkel was the high gun for the varsity female division, hitting 94 of 100 targets. Delana Henkel was second with a score of 90, edging Platte-Geddes' Harper Kirsch for second place on the reverse run.
Overall, Mitchell took second place in the team standings in the Class 2A competition, finishing with a score of 469, three points behind Yankton at 472. Pierre also had 469 points but the high-gun tiebreaker favored Mitchell.
Mitchell had the tiebreaker due to the strong effort of Chase Eitemiller, who was third in the male varsity individual competition, hitting 97 of 100 targets. Yankton's Payton Silvernail was first with a score of 98, followed by Jadon Petersen, of Platte-Geddes, and Eitemiller each with 97, with Petersen holding the tiebreaker for second alone.
At the girls junior varsity level, Mitchell's Brooke Ver Hey tied for second place with a score of 84. Platte-Geddes' Piper Rasmussen was the high score in the female novice category with a score of 88.
Among Mitchell's team members, Chance Henkel led the boys junior varsity shooters with a score of 83, while Riley Hansen was tops among the boys novice shooters with a 79. Trinity Wilson was the top girls novice shooter for Mitchell with a score of 77.
In the Class 1A scoring, Chamberlain put together a top-notch performance in the state trap shoot. Chamberlain was first or second in all three divisions of competition — first in novice and varsity and second in junior varsity — on Saturday.
In the varsity scoring, Chamberlain had 480, followed by Hot Springs at 479 and Winner/Colome at 472. Lyman won the junior varsity level at 428.
Chamberlain had seven shooters hit more than 90 of their targets, led by Colin Mayer's 99. Teammate Mya Priebe hit 97, Jansen Konechne hit 96, Christian Fees and Sheldon Mayer hit 94, Quinn Long hit 92 and Rayden Haak hit 91, all in varsity competition. The top five scores for a team count to the overall team total.
Colin Mayer won the boys varsity high gun honors, followed by Winner/Colome's Jude Sargent in second place with a 98. In the junior varsity scoring, Chamberlain's Blaine Krenke led the way for all shooters with a 94.
Hot Springs' Jena Kopp had the only perfect shooting weekend in the state trap competition, shooting 100 to win overall high gun honors. Winner/Colome's Katie Welker was second in the girls varsity scoring with 99, followed by Tina Zoellner at 98 from Groton Area.
Competing in the state skeet tournament, Chamberlain was the winning team, with a total of 443, finishing ahead of Brookings (435) and Winner/Colome (421). Mitchell was fourth with 416 points. Chamberlain had three shooters score over 90 points — including 92s from Jansen Konechne and Christian Fees and a 90 from Colin Mayer — and all five scored at least 83.
Mitchell's Trell Kaupp was the high shooter in the skeet competition, hitting 97 of 100 targets. He hit 24-of-25 targets three times and his third round was a perfect 25.
Welker, of Winner/Colome, was the top varsity female shooter, with a score of 93. In the female junior varsity scoring, Mya Priebe was first with a score of 78 for Chamberlain, followed by Delana Henkel of Mitchell with a 74. Joey Heesch, of Mitchell, was third in the male novice category with a score of 75.
Mitchell team participants at the state competition included: Wes Bigge, Reed Bruns, Gracie Czmowski, Carver Denning, Dawson Dierks, Cooper Ducheneaux, Waylon Egli, Chase Eitemiller, Kohlman Eldeen, Mallory Fortin, Jordan Gerlach, Riley Hansen, Joey Heesch, Bailey Henkel, Chance Henkel, Delana Henkel, Devin Henkel, Maddy Henkel, Jordan Herrlein, Trell Kaupp, Avrie London, Grant London, Hunter Magee, Kyler Mayer, Nathan Mccormick, Justin McManus, Gavin Paul, Lucas Paul, Lillian Peterson, Parker Rauscher, Hadley Schoenrock, Brooke Ver Hey, Kale Vilhauer, Ian Weber and Trinity Wilson.
