Ramsey County teams took home all of the top honors in each event of the 2015 North Dakota 4-H Shooting Sports State Shotgun Match.

The match was held Aug. 8-9 at the Capital City Gun Club in Bismarck and Capital City Sporting Clays Range near Menoken. The competition brought in 64 shooters from across the state.

Shotgun events consist of trap, skeet and sporting clays. Seniors shoot 100 trap, 50 clay and 50 skeet targets. Junior division participants shoot 50 targets in each event. The shooter receives one point for every target hit.

Shoot-offs are held when two participants tie in an event. Shoot-off participants are required to complete a number of shots to determine the placing. Tie breakers are used when two participants finish with equal overall scores. The tiebreaker is the highest trap score.

The Ramsey County team of Spencer Frith, Dylan Durbin, Matt Schindele and John Rutten was the senior division champion. The team shot for a combined score of 534 out of 600 for the three events and qualified for the 2016 4-H National Invitational.

The bid for the top shooter ended with Frith finishing as the champion. He had an overall score of 181. He shot a 91 score in trap, 46 in skeet and 44 in sporting clays.

Durbin was one point behind in second place, with Schindele and Rutten tying for third place with a score of 173. Rutten was placed third following a tie breaker.

Hannah Van Steenvoort was the top scorer in trap with 94. Schindele was the high scorer in skeet with 48, and Durbin was the top scorer in sporting clays with 46.

The second place senior division team of Mason Hanson, Landen Blanchfield, Zachary Mertens, and Van Steenvoort scored 510. The third-place senior division team consisted of Joshua White, Damon Sobolik, Ian Tjelta and Christopher Morstad. The team earned a score of 477.

The Ramsey County team of Robert Serumgard, Forrest Hanson, Ordale Morstad and Zachary Ohma scored 357 out of 450 points to claim first place in the junior division. Serumgard was top gun overall with a score of 124 out of a possible 150. He also was high scorer in skeet with 45.

Hanson was the top scorer in trap with 46 out of 50. He tied with Morstad in sporting clays with a 38 score. A shoot-off resulted in Morstad in second place and Hanson in third.

The second-place team in the junior division consisted of Sydney Steffen, Isaak Brown, Rachel Fritz and Emma Steenvort. The team earned a score of 279.

NDSU Agriculture Communication - Aug. 18, 2015