Bullseye!

Over the past weekend Ovathletics had the privilege to take a bit of a new adventure and this time travel clear out to West Muskingum High School to cover an Archery tournament. The West Muskingum Holiday Fun Shoot and Food Pantry Tournament was an individual tournament that had a total 48 schools represented. This is the 10^th year for this tournament.

Local Archery legend Rick Thomas was on site with all the elementary, middle, and high schools from Ohio County Schools. Wheeling Central, Corpus Christi, Our Lady of Peace, St. Mary’s Central, and St. Michael’s were also on hand. Linsly was the other “local” team that made the trip. Other notable teams were Zanesville. Warren, and even Kanawha County sent a team up from Charleston, WV.

In all told there were nearly 300 shooters in this weekend’s tournament. With Mathew Harper of Maysville High School taking the overall when with an amazing perfect 300 score.

Locals that faired well were Wheeling Park’s Isaiah Braden (284), Ayden Cutlip (275), Mackenzie Scott (263), Annie Criswell, Olivia Braden (259), and Luke Wang (257)

Wheeling Central’s Brandon Miller (265), Mackenzie Looney (260), Anna Hester (257), Anne Nettles (252), Codi Bartsch (251), and Isaiah Crockcard (251)

Linsly’s Jude Veltri (265),

St. Michael’s Levi Anderson (257)

St. Vincent’s Levi Powell (254)

Corpus Christi’s Brighton Seamon (252)

Triadelphia Middle’s Timothy Hall (252)

Stayed tuned to Ovathletics for more Archery coverage in the future. These are skilled athletes that deserve some attention. State tournaments can have hundreds of shooters and the Nationals usually have thousands.

Archery also happens to be a sport where there’s a level playing field for so many kids to compete and be apart of something larger then themselves, but at the same time give them some individual accolades.

A special thank you to Heidi Wagner for organizing and providing us with the information on the tournament. She also wanted to thank all the volunteers that helped make this a very nice tournament for the kids.

High School Boys

Score     School   Archer

1 – 300   Maysville High – Mathew Harper

2 – 291   Nelsonville York High – Chris Peyton

3 – 284   Wheeling Park – Isaiah Braden

4 – 284   Maysville High – Jakob Clossman

5 – 282   Granville High – Ben Yates

High School Girls

Score     School   Archer

1 -284    Maysville High – Alexia Kahle

2 -283    West Muskingham High – Abi Elswick

3 -278    West Muskingham High – Trista Tracy

4 -274    John Glenn High School – Reagan Burke

5 -271    John Glenn High School – Carlie Elsworth

Middle School Boys

Score     School   Archer

1 – 293   Maysville Middle – Johnathan Harper

2 – 286   Fairfield Christian Academy Middle – Joshua Witte

3 – 280   Granville Middle – Skyler Zingraf

4 – 280   Granville Middle – Ian Roberts

5 – 274   Tri-Valley Middle – Quinton Lazar

Middle School Girls

Score     School   Archer

1 – 274   Elkview Middle  – Madilyn Arbogast

2 – 271   Elkview Middle  – Raylee Hammons

3 – 268   Maysville Middle – Jacey Waxler

4 – 268   Elkview Middle  – Abigail Gunnoe

5 – 268   Granville Middle – Frannie Dodd

5th Grade Boys

Score     School   Archer

1 – 253   Fairfield Christian Academy Elementary – Braxton Sayers

2 – 250   Crooksville – Carsen Harper

3 – 246   New Lex – Tristan Folk

4 – 241   Maysville Elementary – Ricky Cochrun

5 – 240   Granville Intermediate School – Anthony Pillitteri

5th Grade Girls

Score     School   Archer

1 – 268   Logan Hocking Elementary – Hayden Fouch

2 – 264   Maysville Isabelle – Capplinger

3 – 250   Logan Hocking Elementary – Adelyn Fouch

4 – 235   West Muskingum – Arabella Beardsley

5 – 235   Granville Intermediate School – Violet Sheffield

4th Grade Boys

Score     School   Archer

1 – 254   St. Vincent de Paul – Levi Powell

2 – 247   West Muskingum Elementary – Luke Serdy

3 – 215   Granville Intermediate School – Logan Minton

4 – 213   St. Vincent de Paul – Fulton Klein

5 – 208   Maysville – Landon Kim

4th Grade Girls

Score     School   Archer

1 – 213   Fairfield Christian Academy Elementary – Quinn Sayers

2 – 211   Elm Grove Elementary – Olivia Parsons

3 – 190   St. Vincent de Paul – Charleigh Carr

4 – 189   Maysville Elementary – Gracie Grant

5 – 187   West Muskingum Elementary – Kylie Knaup