Concordia Results | Full Mid-Plains CC Fall Flurry Results
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. – Sam Blevins shot the team’s top overall score and Claire Kee came away with the women’s HOA championship as Concordia University Shooting Sports resumed the 2023-24 season at the Mid-Plains Community College Fall Flurry this past Saturday and Sunday (Sept. 16-17). The event was staged at Lincoln County Wildlife Gun Club in North Platte, Neb., the same location for the Prairie Circuit Conference Championships to be held later this month. More than 100 competitors tested themselves at the Fall Flurry in the disciplines of skeet, sporting clays and trap.
Head Coach Dylan Owens’ top group of Bulldogs placed second HOA with a score of 1,317. This event was arranged uniquely in that all competing institutions had to declare separate groupings of five. Those distinct groups of five produced scores towards the leaderboards for HOA, skeet, sporting clays and trap.
“All in all, not a bad weekend,” Owens said. “North Platte is always an interesting place to shoot at. It was good we got out there before conference at the end of the month. Our freshmen were able to see how it lays out. The traps are set differently from what we’re used to. We’ll be more prepared for conference. We saw a lot of improvement overall. Scores are coming up. It wasn’t our best weekend. There were some things we didn’t adapt to as well as we’d like but still put up some pretty good scores.”
Major individual awards were claimed by Kee as the women’s HOA champion (265) and women’s sporting clays champion (91), Buchannan Tietjen as the men’s skeet four-year college champion (95) and Katie Welker as the women’s trap champion (94) and co-women’s skeet champion (93) along with teammate Rayne Larrison. Concordia’s top five HOA shooters were Blevins (272), Jack Nelson (268), Kee (265), Tietjen (262) and Mason Ward (260). Among all shooters at the Fall Flurry, Blevins finished fourth HOA behind three athletes from Hastings.
Broken down by discipline, the Bulldogs turned in finishes of second in trap (435), second in skeet (452) and second in sporting clays (434). Concordia’s top five scores in each of those disciplines are listed below.
Trap
Katie Welker – 94
Sam Blevins – 91
Jack Nelson – 91
Mason Ward – 91
Breyer Meeks – 89
Skeet
Buchannan Tietjen – 95
Sam Blevins – 94
Cael Washburn – 94
Rayne Larrison – 93
Mason Ward – 93
Katie Welker – 93
Sporting Clays
Claire Kee – 91
Buchannan Tietjen – 89
Sam Blevins – 87
Wayne Moore – 87
Jack Nelson – 87
In the team HOA scoring, the Bulldogs beat out competitors from Fort Hays State University and the University of Wyoming, among four-year schools. Concordia also outperformed the top groupings from the four junior colleges in attendance in North Platte. Hastings took the HOA team title with its total of 1,360. The Bulldogs have placed in the top three of the first two events of the season (with a third-place claim at the Fort Hays State University Fall Intercollegiate Shoot).
Next up will be the Warrior Open slated for Saturday and Sunday at Lincoln Trap & Skeet Club in Lincoln, Neb. The action is scheduled to get started at 9 a.m. CT on both days.
Said Owens, “Midland this weekend will probably be our biggest shoot in terms of competing against teams that we’ll see on the national level. It will be nice to see how we stack up.”