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SEWARD, Neb. – In the final outing of the fall for Concordia University, Nebraska Shooting Sports, senior Devin Harris came away with a skeet championship and the Bulldogs placed second high overall (HOA) at the Southeast Community College Bobcat Invitational. The event took place at Lincoln Trap & Skeet in Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 26-27 and featured the disciplines of trap, skeet and sporting clays for a total of 300 targets per individual. For the purposes of team and individual awards, the 10 squads in competition were split up based on their status as either four- or two-year schools.
This marked the sixth event of the fall for Head Coach Dylan Owens’ squad. Concordia busted 1,390 targets towards the overall team leaderboard, second to only Midland University (1,443) among four-year schools.
“It was a smaller event, but I’m pretty satisfied with our scores,” Owens said. “I think our sporting can get better. There’s still a gap that we need to overcome. We had a long break on Saturday and I think that got to our athletes a little bit. That’s something we probably won’t face for the rest of the year. We have a couple shoots before nationals (next semester). The whole team’s mindset is much more on getting ready for that. A little bit of rest and recovery is going to be good for us.”
Mild temperatures and light winds greeted the field of competitors at Lincoln Trap & Skeet. As part of Saturday afternoon action, the Kansas City, Mo., native Harris shot 99/100 in skeet and then won a shoot-off in the process of bringing home the title. Other top individual scores by discipline were 99s by both sophomore Hayes Andelt and senior Brennen Stones in trap and an 87 from freshman Trevor Burch in sporting clays. From an HOA perspective, senior Buchannan Tietjen led the way with a score of 279/300, placing him seventh among four-year institution male competitors.
Tietjen shot 98 in trap, 96 in skeet and 85 in sporting. Tietjen was followed in the team’s HOA top five by Stones (275), Burch (274), freshman Carter McKenna (273), Harris (271) and junior Mason Ward (271). Junior Kaylee Hinton led all Concordia female competitors with a 254. There were a total of 21 Bulldogs who competed in the event. Seven shot 94 or better in trap and 11 cracked the 90s in skeet. Among the four-year schools, the Bulldogs placed second in all three categories: trap (490), sporting (417) and skeet (483).
As a team, Concordia defeated the likes of Fort Hays State University (Kan.), Oklahoma Panhandle State University, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Colorado State University. The champion among two-year institutions was Iowa Western Community College.
The next official event on the schedule will take place during the spring semester. Concordia will host the Concordia Bulldog Sporting Invitational on Feb. 28-March 1. The event will be staged at the program’s home range, Oak Creek Sporting Club in Brainard, Neb.