Ellis County Sportsmens Club in Waxahachie hosted the SCTP Winter Blast of Skeet and Sporting Clays on February 24, 2024. It was a gorgeous day and the Southlake Carroll Dragons rose to the occasion shooting 100 Sporting Clays and 100 Skeet. Ellis County is known for their hard sporting clays stations as they have wide open fields with throwers using regular, mini, midi AND they had battue clays on one station. They like to use a variety of colors: normal orange, green and black making some clays super hard to see or the bottoms are black. Ellis County is a great practice facility for Ohio SCTP sporting clays stations… hint hint.

The shoot offs and tournament results took a really long time but the Dragons hung in there for their medals and team award! Super proud to watch all the smiling faces after the grueling delays. The Team won 1st place HOA due to a technicality.

Coach Brandon suggested to start a new team tradition and this tournament was the first to start it. This new tradition is to give the newer team athletes the winning team trophy on the team’s behalf before we eventually put it in the school case at CHS. Sam Wilson is the first recipient to bring home the 1st place team trophy on the team’s behalf from this tournament and he was all smiles!

Team HOA Results: SCTT WON HOA due to a technical ruling
1st Place Win in Skeet with 291, Winning by 4 clays
1st Place Win in Sporting Clays, Won due to technical ruling

Skeet Straights:
Andy Shahidi shot 75 straight
Natalie Briggs, Wyatt Hinckley and Ross Wilson shot 50 straight
Garrett Briggs, Katherine Cismas, Sarah Lang and Charlize Pei, Ethan Thomason, Blake Tyler and Ross Wilson all shot 25 straight
Outstanding job to all of our Dragon athletes!

Team Contributors (Top 3 from each team):
Skeet:
• Andy Shahidi 98
• Ross Wilson 97
• Wyatt Hinckley 96

Sporting Clays:
• Riley Franks 81
• Wyatt Hinckley 81
• Ethan Thomason 80

Top 10 (or Top 11) are listed below by discipline:

SPORTING CLAYS:
Varsity Men:
7th Riley Franks 81
8th Andy Shahidi 80
11th Blake Tyler 74

Varsity Ladies:
2nd Abigail Hinckley 70
4th Natalie Briggs 66
8th Katherine Cismas 48

JV Men:
1st Wyatt Hinckley 81
2nd Ethan Thomason 80
9th Fischer Keating 50

JV Ladies:
2nd Sarah Lang 69
3rd Charlize Pei 60

Intermediate Advanced Men:
10th Brayden Buchanan 55

Intermediate Entry Men:
4th Tied Sam Wilson 47

Intermediate Entry Ladies:
5th Clancy Day

SKEET MEDALS:
Varsity Men:
2nd Andy Shahidi 98
4th Ross Wilson 97
6th Blake Tyler 96

Varsity Ladies:
1st Katherine Cismas 95
2nd Natalie Briggs 93
4th Abigail Hinckley 87

JV Men:
1st Wyatt Hinckley 96
3rd Ethan Thomason 91
11th Fischer Keating 66

JV Ladies:
1st Charlize Pei 92
2nd Sarah Lang 90

Intermediate Advanced Men:
11th Brayden Buchanan 71

Intermediate Entry Men:
1st Sam Wilson 75
8th Alex Kidwell 45
10th Jackson McJunkin 44

Intermediate Entry Ladies:
4th Clancy Day 4

Results provided from mysctp