The latest starting fall sport is underway and the NRHEG team is poised to make it an exciting and competition season.
The team had its first shoot on Wednesday, Sept. 24 at the Owatonna Gun Club. The team did very well and find themselves in the second spot in the conference, just 8 1/2 points behind the team from Hermantown which, in clay target shooting, is virtually a tie.
The NRHEG shooters placed 10 shooters in the top 25 for the conference and have five shooters sitting in the top 100 in the state after one week. Those shooters are Sam Bartz, Zach Eustice, Frank Altrichter, Colton Hagen, and Tyler Raimann."From top to bottom the team is competitive, but it will be the younger shooters that have to carry the load," commented coach Dan Sorum. "The top shooters can only improve a few points per week, but the students shooting under 15 targets per round can really make a difference over the course of a season."
Clay Target Shooting uses a true team style of scoring where 80% of the individual scores count toward the overall team total in comparison to all the teams in the conference. For NRHEG, that means 17 of their shooters, so at any point in time a student’s score may be the difference between moving up in the conference, or being passed.
The team shoots again on Oct. 1 and for the next four Wednesdays after that as part of the MSHSCTL Fall League.