The Luverne trap shooting team participated in the 2023 Minnesota Trap Shoot Championship at the Alexandria Shooting Park in Alexandria June 14.
Nearly 7,900 students were expected to compete during the championships conducted daily from June 12-20.
This championship is the qualifying competition for the Minnesota State High School League Tournament on June 23 at the Minneapolis Gun Club in Prior Lake.
At the championships, athletes complete four rounds of 25 targets each with a possible perfect score of 100.
The Cardinals team broke up into three squads for the event on June 14.
Squad 1 included Holden Overgaard, Piper Wynia, Jacob Madison, Alex DeWispelaere and Samuel Honerman.
Squad 2 included Jaden Reisch, Andrew Kinsinger, Liam Murphy, Grant Wieneke and Jacob Henning.
Squad 3 included Cameron Wieneke, Lucas Hansen, Sawyer Sasker and Rayann Remme.
Jacob Madison tied for 10th place in the varsity male category at Wednesday’s tournament.
Madison tied for 11th overall in the varsity male category and also shot 50 straight targets in his third and fourth rounds.
Piper Wynia tied for fourth place in the varsity female category for the tournament. Wynia tied for 18th overall in the tournament.
Neither Madison nor Wynia scored high enough to move on to the state tournament.
In junior varsity, Grant Wieneke was team high gun male with a total score of 82 and Rayann Remme was the team high gun female with a total score of 73.
In the novice division, Cameron Wieneke took the team high gun male with a total score of 72.
Alex DeWispelaere, Samuel Honerman, Jacob Madison and Piper Wynia all shot a perfect round score of 25 in one of their rounds at the championships.
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The Hills-Beaver Creek trap team also competed in the 2023 Minnesota Trap Shoot Championship.
Luke Fuerstenberg shot one round of 25 and Hunter Leenderts shot two rounds of 25 in the championship rounds.
In varsity, Luke Fuerstenberg was team high gun male with a total score of 93, and Michael Ykema was the junior varsity team high gun winner with a 71.
Individual scoring for Luverne at the event was as follows:
Alex DeWispelaere
23/22/24/25 total of 94
Lucas Hansen
21/21/20/19 total of 81
Jacob Henning
22/21/23/22 total of 87
Samuel Honerman
23/23/25/22 total of 93
Andrew Kinsinger
20/23/22/22 total of 87
Jacob Madison
24/23/25/25 total of 97
Liam Murphy
22/24/21/23 total of 90
Holden Overgaard
22/22/22/22 total of 88
Jaden Reisch
21/19/24/16 total of 80
Rayann Remme
18/19/20/16 total of 73
Sawyer Sasker
19/20/22/19 total of 80
Cameron Wieneke
19/17/17/19 total of 72
Grant Wieneke
19/20/23/20 total of 82
Piper Wynia
23/24/25/24 total of 96
Individual scoring for Hills-Beaver Creek at the event was as follows:
Cameron Allen
23/20/22/23 total of 88
Brekkem Boen
17/24/16/17 total of 74
Seyler Boen
12/11/11/14 total of 48
Gunner Bork
16/21/16/22 total of 75
Luke Fuerstenberg
22/25/22/24 total of 93
Cooper Gehrke
21/23/22/22 total of 88
Alex Harris
22/21/21/19 total of 83
Brooklynne Hubbard
15/19/18/18 total of 70
Lukas Hubbard
21/18/16/21 total of 76
Blake Leenderts
22/21/23/21 total of 87
Hunter Leenderts
21/25/20/25 total of 91
Maddox Metzger
22/24/19/23 total of 88
Jack Moser
21/20/23/21 total of 85
Michael Ykema
19/16/16/20 total of 70