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Local team wins 4-H national championship
Seventy competitors from 38 states competed in this year's event, which was held in San Antonio, Texas, but it was the team from Pennsylvania, made up of Frazier-Simplex shooters Casey Doyle, Chris Duerr, Rachel Adams and Kiboh Uchida that took home the gold medal.
A team from Frazier-Simplex also won the national title in 2007.
The overall competition champion was determined by the team's finish in the smallbore events - NRA three-position, CMP three-position, and NRA silhouette at 40, 60, 77 and 100 yards - contested over a three-day period.
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In the overall individual competition, Doyle placed second, while Duerr was third.
Duerr finished as national champion in the NRA three-position event, while Doyle finished fifth and Adams ninth.
Doyle was fourth in the silhouette match, with Duerr finishing ninth.
Doyle also finished 10th in the CMP match.
The Pennsylvania air rifle team, which included Frazier-Simplex shooters Emma Uchida, Brent Morgan and Justin Zeifel, placed fifth in the nation. The final team member was Brandon Michner of Montgomery County.
The team finished second in standing shot, third in CMP three-position, and fifth in 4-H three-position and silhouette.
Zeifel placed ninth in the overall competition, while Uchida was 10th in the standing event.
Steve Welch and Walter Your Jr., both of Greene County, competed in the shotgun portion of the event.
Welch finished 15th in the overall event.
n The Pennsylvania Game Commission has approved a resolution to support the repeal of the commonwealth's statutory prohibition on Sunday hunting.
The resolution passed by a vote of 4-3 with one abstention.
Game Commission staff will present the resolution to the House Game and Fisheries Committee, which has already been investigating the topic of Sunday hunting.
Pennsylvania is one of just seven states that prohibits hunting on Sunday - outside of coyotes, foxes and crows. Of the states that prohibit Sunday hunting, Pennsylvania has the largest hunting population.
Hopefully, the Legislature gives passage of Sunday hunting serious consideration.
Many of the other so-called blue laws have been taken off the books over the years. This is another one that has seen its time pass.
Outdoors Editor F. Dale Lolley can be reached at dlolley@observer-reporter.com
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