LINCOLN, Neb. – In its second competition of the spring semester, the Concordia University Shooting Sports program again went toe-to-toe with traditional powers Fort Hays State University (Kan.) and Midland University. The Bulldogs placed third as a team at the Doane University Tiger Invitational while cracking 1,404 targets. They were 20 targets off first-place Fort Hays State (1,424) and six off second-place Midland (1,410). The shoot was held at Lincoln Trap & Skeet Club in Lincoln, Neb.
Head Coach Scott Moniot entered 33 competitors into the event that featured three disciplines: skeet, sporting clays and trap. Eight institutions from around the Midwest took part in the Doane Invite.
On an individual level, the top Bulldog shooters from a high overall (HOA) perspective were junior Wyatt Hambly (283), junior Russell Malterud (283), junior Sarah Schwacher (282), graduate student Erin Lokke (279), senior Monica Dale (277) and senior Rebecca Tierney (277). Schwacher won the HOA title on the women’s side. The native of Waterford, Wis., hit 97 targets in skeet, 87 in sporting clays and 98 in trap. Hambly and Malterud were 11 targets shy of the event’s overall champion from Fort Hays State (Hank McVeigh).
Concordia freshman Breyer Meeks nearly ran a perfect score in trap by hitting 99/100 targets. Tierney shot a 97 in the same event. In skeet, both Hambly and Schwacher both recorded 97/100. Malterud put forth the team’s best performance in sporting clays (92/100).
As a team, the Bulldogs posted totals of 487/500 in trap, 481/500 in skeet and 448/500 in sporting clays. Fort Hays State wound up beating out all opponents in each of those disciplines.
The last event of the 2020-21 season will be the ACUI National Championships coming up March 25-27 at the National Shooting Complex in San Antonio, Texas. The national championships were wiped out in 2020 due to COVID-19. At the 2019 national shoot, Concordia placed fourth in the “Division 2” grouping.
Team HOA
1. Fort Hays State University – 1,424
2. Midland University – 1,410
3. Concordia University – 1,404
4. Iowa Western CC – 1,380
5. Hastings College – 1,348
6. Doane University – 1,325
7. Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture – 1,204
8. Wayne State College – 680