Three Fairfield County student shooters will be representing Connecticut at the National Junior Olympics in Colorado this fall.
Three Fairfield County student shooters will be representing Connecticut at the National Junior Olympics in Colorado this fall.
The state qualifying competition for international trapshooting was held on Saturday at the Fairfield County Fish & Game Club in Newtown and Mat Apgar, 16, a junior from Fairfield, took home the Connecticut title for high overall with a score of 114 out of 125 targets.
CJ Ehrentraut, 11, of Beacon Falls came in second with a 104 while Michael Terry, a freshman from Weston, earned the third slot on the team.
The group will travel to the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs in mid-September.
Kyle Matthews of Monroe, Stephen Michael Apgar of Middlebury, and Nick Fatse of Newtown â sixth and seventh graders â were the members of the runner-up team.
All six boys have been active in the Scholastic Clay Target Program, sponsored by the Newtown-based National Shooting Sports Foundation. This organization has more than 8,300 elementary and high school students across the country who compete on local, regional, and national levels in the disciplines of trap, Skeet, and sporting clay target shooting.
The Junior Olympics are held under the auspices of USA Shooting â the governing body of shooting sports for the United States Olympic Committee.