Nashville, Tenn.—Henry County’s Scholastic Clay Target Program—called The No Fly Zone– is flying high right now, having won the Tennessee State Championship in Nashville, followed by the National Championship in Columbus, Ohio.
Individual county shooters came home with a lot of hardware, too.
After a stellar showing in the West Tennessee Regional Tournament, the Henry County No Fly Zone Team moved on to Nashville for the State Championships.
The Varsity Skeet Team made another clean sweep. Briar Ray, Aaron Conrad and Drew James were the top three scorers for Henry County and captured the State Varsity Skeet Team Championship.
The Squad of Gray Gardner, Caleb Orr and Stuart Archer won the Varsity Skeet Squad Championship and Aaron Conrad, Briar Ray and Scott Hicks took Second in the Varsity Skeet Squad Competition. The Varsity Skeet Team has won both Team Championship and Squad Championship and Squad Runner Up in Regional and State Competition. These guys are on a roll.
Alysha Bevill is the 2018 Ladies State Varsity Skeet Champion and Briar Ray took Third in the Individual Men’s Division. Varsity Skeet Coaches are Bill Neese, Keith Ray and Tas Gardner.
The Junior Varsity Skeet Team of Kyle Leuci, Austin Fuson and Sawyer Williams took the Second Place Team title.
The Squad of Sawyer Williams, Austin Fuson and Andrew Hunter Smith took Second Place Junior Varsity Skeet Squad.
Shelby Summers placed Third in the Individual Junior Varsity Ladies Skeet Division.
The Junior Varsity Skeet Coach is Drew Williams.
The Intermediate Advanced Skeet Team of Dalton Dodd, Wade Tucker and Chas Wade placed Second in the Team Competition.
Individual Skeet Champ, Dalton Dodd, who shot a perfect score of 100, the only perfect Skeet score of the Tournament in any age group. The Intermediate Advanced Coaches are Doug Overton and Dustin Mackey.
In Trap, the Intermediate Advanced Team did it up big time winning the IA Team Championship with the high scores of Dalton Dodd, Hudson Cepparulo, Braydon Tosh, Will Overton and Miles Mackey.
The IA took the Third Place Trap Squad Title with Dalton Dodd, Will Overton, Hudson Cepparulo, Chas Wade and Braydon Tosh. Dalton Dodd was the third-place individual men’s trap winner.
The IA Trap Coaches are Dustin Mackey and Doug Overton.
The Rookies took the Team and third place Squad Trap Championship with Remington Lowe, Caden Delaney, Parker James, Collin Whitehead and Drew Overton bringing home the honors and medals.
The Rookie Trap Coach is Doug Overton.
In Sporting Clays, our Intermediate Advanced Athletes swept the event.
Dalton Dodd, Will Overton and Miles Mackey shot for the Team and Squad Championship.
The High Overall Award combines scores in Skeet, Trap and Sporting Clays to determine the winners.
Dalton Dodd was Intermediate Individual High Overall Award.
The Intermediate Advanced Team won the High Overall Award as well.
The Senior Team placed Third HOA.
SCTP NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
After the great showing at State, the No Fly Zone headed for the SCTP National Championships at the cardinal Center in Marengo, Ohio just outside Columbus the week of July 16th. The Henry County No Fly Zone Team has become a well-recognized National Power House over the last several years and these young folks had every intention of keeping it that way.
The Varsity Skeet Team has been a real juggernaut this year.
Capturing the West Tennessee and Tennessee State Team Championships and Squad Championships wasn’t enough. The Second Squad took Runner Up Squad in the Regional and State Competitions making it a clean sweep.
At Nationals, the first squad of Gray Gardner, Caleb Orr and Stuart Archer and the second squad of Aaron Conrad, Briar Ray and Scott Hicks decided they would take the top two spots at Nationals even though such an achievement is unheard of. But they did it, a clean sweep in Varsity Skeet. Gardner, Orr and Archer took the Championship and Conrad, Ray and Hicks the Runner Up spot.
Still not satisfied, Gray Gardner, Briar Ray and Caleb Orr entered the Double Skeet event, the only other Skeet event, and brought home another National Championship for the No Fly Zone Skeet Team.
Over the last eight years, various age categories of the No Fly Zone Skeet Teams have won six National Championships, five National Runners Up trophies and three National Third Place honors, tow MidWest Regional Championships and numerous State and West Tennessee titles.
As the Chief Official at Nationals said, for a team to win first and second in Regional, State and National over a few short weeks shows tremendous focus and determination and ten to add a Doubles title is truly amazing.
The Rookies Squad of Caden Delaney, Parker James and Drew Overton took Silver in the Doubles Skeet Event taking Second and Addison Delaney was Third in the Individual Ladies Class. The Intermediate Advanced Squad of Will Overton, Evan Bevill and Dalton Dodd placed third.
The Intermediate Advanced Squad Second of Dalton Dodd, Will Overton and Evan Bevill won the Silver Medal in 200 Target Skeet placing Second in their Division and Dalton Dodd placed Fourth Intermediate Advanced Individual Men.
The big winners in Intermediate Advanced Sporting Clays were Dalton Dodd, Will Overton and Miles Mackey taking the National Championship in this event. Will Overton placed fifth in the Intermediate Advanced Individual Men’s competition.
Dalton Dodd Was the High Over All IA winner and that is a very big honor.
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