Shooters Set For Nationals
The Britton-Hecla Trapshooting Team will be among 3,000 of the best youth clay target student athletes in the country competing for the title of National Champion this week.
The Britton-Hecla Trapshooting Team will be among 3,000 of the best youth clay target student athletes in the country competing for the title of National Champion this week.
Marshall County 4-H member Carter Effling earned a fourth place finish in the trapshooting category at the National 4-H Shooting Sports competition held in Grand Island, NE, June 27-July 1.
The Marshall County Sharpshooters finished fifth in the National Daisy BB Gun Tournament in Rogers, AR, last weekend. Team members in front left to right are Grant Cutler, Chris Cutler, and Austin Crawford. Back row Brynn Samson, Paytyn Marlow, Baylee Bender, and Amelia Crawford. At right is Marshall County’s only individual medalist from this year’s national tourney – Baylee Bender – pictured with her father and loader Jason Bender. Bender won the bronze medal in the alternate division.
When the Marshall County Sharpshooters left South Dakota for the 2022 National Daisy BB Gun Tournament they knew they would be competing against the best in the nation.
The national spotlight is nothing new for the Marshall County Sharpshooters, and next week they will be shooting for a fourth national championship.
For the first time in about six years last week Wednesday a Britton baseball team played a game on the large field at the baseball/softball complex on the south edge of town.
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