Hays Post
Hays High School claimed a pair of Kansas State High School Clay Target League state titles over this past week.
Hays won the Class 1A Skeet Team Overall competition with a team total of 435. Their score was 46 better than second place. Logan Schmidt was the team's high gun with a 91. Daniel Maier scored a 90. Cole McDonough, Jaxon Stoffel and Gunner Weigel rounded out the team score.
Schmidt's 91 was good enough for a second place tie in the individual placings. Maier tied for fourth, McDonough tied for sixth with an 88 and Stoffel tied for eighth with an 86. Weigel finished just outside the top ten in a tie for eleventh with an 80.
Hays High also claimed the 2A Trap Shooting Novice title with a score of 361. LaCrosse finished second at 333. Brandon Dague was the high gun for the team with an 83. Callie Bets, Makayla Lewallen, Jack McMurtrie, and Eleanor Stoffel rounded out the scoring. Lewallen was second on the team and the top female high gun with a 72.
Dague was the competition's top novice male.
The junior varsity shot a 384 and placed 14th. The varsity team finished eighth with a 472.
Kaeilin Maier was the junior varsity's female high gun and had the highest team score with an 86. Dakota Schmidt was the team's male high gun at 84. The varsity team was led by Jaxon Stoffel with a 97. Mariella Dreiling was the top female gun at 87.
Maier placed second junior varsity female scores. Stoffel tied for 11th in the varsity male high gun scores.
Area shooters that finished in the top three included Trego's Quintin Walt, who shot a perfect 100 and was the varsity male champion and was the overall state champion. Second, third and fourth place each missed just one shot for a 99.
Trego's Karlie Long finished third in the female novice division with a 79. Denton Pfannenstiel of LaCrosse was third in the male novice division on an 80 score. Sarah Clements of Trego shot 86 and was third in the female junior varsity division.