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Steve and Amy Huber
July 3, 2008
ASHLAND — At this time last year, Steven Huber of Orwigsburg was in the midst of one of the best of
his many fine trapshooting seasons.
He was coming off a Pennsylvania State Shoot in which he won two events, placed second in his class in two others and third in another, and added fifth and sixth-place overall finishes in two of the larger events.
More
2008 Pennsylvania
Grand
July 4-6, 2008
Elysburg,
PA, June 4-6, 2008: Matt
Bozart (right) of York became the first junior to ever
win the PA Grand
Singles Championship when he broke a 200x200. Another
junior, Benjamin Johnson of Lincoln University also
smashed all 200 to win the Junior award. Other trophy
winners with 200 straight include Robert
Malmstedt, Doug
Jones, Robert
LeFever and Kay Ohye. Larry Grabowski (left) of
Collegeville
snared the opening Handicap at the 36th annual Pennsylvania
Grand trapshooting championships with a 98x100 while Malmstedt won the opening Singles and Urban Womer
took the first day's Doubles. Brad Heath snares HAA
& HOA. 1999 PA State Handicap Champion Steve Fitch
wins main Handicap while Sub-Junior All American Cody
Davis wins Doubles crown. Full
Story
2008 Pennsylvania
State Shoot June 7-15, 2008
Elysburg,
PA, June 15, 2008: Larry Shade won his first state
Singles title. He finished runner-up in 1999. Larry also won a
long shootoff for the "Krieghoff Challenge." Donald Neilson won
his first HAA title
while Beverly Shick of Tremont won the state Handicap crown
with a state field high 98. She became the first women title
holder since 1984 and only the second in state history. Emilie
Peters won the 1984 title with a 97x100. Ronald Kikel
of Latrobe won the Doubles crown with 99x100 over Donald Feeg
and Stephanie Sandler while Ken Darroch won his 11th
HOA title, now ties Steve Crothers record of 11. Full
Story.
2008 Keystone
Open Off To Wet Start
May 16-18, 2008
Elysburg,
PA, May 16-18, 2008: Elliott Watt
of Johnstown broke a field high 96 to win the May Handicap
on the rainy first day of the 2008 Keystone Open. New York
All American Chris Vendel broke 100 straight singles to win
the opening May Singles event. Brad
Heath of New York won the AA award in the Doubles Class
Championship with a field high 99x100. He also took home the
HOA award. Phil Boinski
of Blossburg finished second in AA with a 98. Ken Darroch
took the first Keystone Championship by breaking a field
high 100 straight to win the championship Doubles. Mark
Murray was three targets better than anyone else while
winning the Shriner's Handicap with a 98x100 from
yardage. David Schaeffer (left) won his second
straight Single titles, both with perfect 200's, while Robert
Malmstedt took home the Handicap and HAA title. Complete
Results
2008 PSSA Western
Zone Shoot Andy Zborovsky
Wins Three of Four Major Titles, Singles, Handicap and HAA
~May
12, 2008~
Clairton,
PA, May 10, 11, 2008:Andy Zborovsky broke
197x200 to win the Western Zone Singles Championship.
Also finishing with 197's were Rich Fink and Regis Hess.
Fink took the Resident AA award while Hess won the Open AA title. Bob
Salka (left) broke a field high 95x100 to win the Doubles
title while Marty Slobodnik finished with a 91 and the
Resident AA trophy. Zborovsky won the Handicap crown on Sunday
with a field high 96x100, three birds better than runner-up Ronald
Kikel. The hot shooting Zborovsky took the HAA title with
380x400 and Slobodnik finished with the open award with a 376.
Lady Vet Anna Mae Eberle won the ladies Singles and Doubles
crown while Sandra Anthony won the women's Handicap. Complete
Results
2008 PSSA Eastern
Zone Shoot
Joe Prestia Breaks First 200 Straight
~May
12, 2008~
Elysburg,
PA, May 10, 11, 2008:Joe Prestia (left) broke
his first 200 straight to win the PSSA Eastern Zone Singles
Championship at the Valley Gun and Country Club. Larry Shade
finished second, one target behind Prestia. Large crowds pushed
entries up at the 44th Annual Eastern Zone Championships. All
American Sheldon Hostetter won the Double title while
Michael Loughran took home his first zone Handicap
title. Carter Moyer finished 2nd. Jeff Graupp
finished two targets behind Hostetter in the Doubles race.
Lebanon gunner Brian Shyda broke a field high 383 to win
the coveted HAA award. Fred Moyer III finished with the
Open title 5 targets behind the hot shooting Shyda. Sonya Miller
won yet another ladies Singles title while Stephanie Sandler
won the ladies Handicap. Ladies Vet Genevieve Davis
(above)took home the women's Doubles award. Complete
Results
2008 Pennsylvania State Shoot Program
Program Correction ~May
8, 2008~
Target Requirements:
Page: 14...... Where the program states that the target requirement includes having to shoot 500 targets after
September 1, 2006, the program should state that 500 must be shot after
September 1, 2007.
A note from Bob
Stuart ~April
5, 2008~
Click
here for a note from Bob Stuart and a new improvement on
his website. Shooters will be able to type in a name or
portion of a name and have displayed for them the complete
scores shot at that tournament. It allows the shooters to
not only look up their scores, but anyone that attended that
tournament.
2008 PSSA Program ~March
20, 2008~
Here
is a copy of the 2008 PSSA shoot program. Reading the
program requires Acrobat Reader.
The 2008 All American
Teams are now official. Pennsylvania won 10 spots on the team,
down from 13 last year. Kory
Shissler, Junior First Team, Nathan Roberts,
Junior Second Team, Cody Davis, Sub-Junior Second
Team, Bruce Edgreen, Sr. Vet Second Team, Sheldon
Hostetter, Vet First Team, James Blevins, Vet
Second Team, Stephanie Sandler, Ladies First Team, Frank
Pascoe and Steve Huber, Men's Second Team. Frank
Kenesky of Frackville earned the wheelchair first team All except
Roberts, Hostetter, Kenesky and Sandler were
2007 All Americans. Full
Story
2008 PA State
Shoot ~June 7-15, 2008~
It's not too
early to make plans for the Pennsylvania State Shoot
in June. Camping and vendor information can be four here.
Area motel information can be found here.
Shoot program will be available on our web site as soon as
its is available.
Pennsylvania
State Shoot Pre-Squadding
Keystone Open Pre-Squadding
PA Grand Pre-Squadding
Westy Hogans Pre-Squadding
~2008~
There will be
two methods that you can use to pre-squad for the 2008 PA
State Shoot, Keystone Open, PA Grand and Westy Hogans. The
traditional way where you print a pdf form and mail it to the PSSA with your check or
you can do it on- line. Either way is acceptable. Printed
request forms or online pre-Squadding received before or including May 1,
2008 will be given equal priority and drawn at
random. All request forms or on-line requests received after this date will be
processed by received date. No request forms will be
accepted after June 1, 2008. Click on the Squad Form below
if you want to print, fill it out and mail it to the PSSA or
click Pre-Squad On-Line if you want to complete your
pre-Squadding with your computer and pay on-line. 2008
PSSA Program
Pennsylvania Love
Affair with the GAH
Preliminary Handicap ~January 18, 2008~
Over the years
Pennsylvania shooters have done exceptionally well in the
Preliminary Handicap at the Grand American. Take
a look and see who has written their name into the
record books, in this, the second largest trapshooting event
in the world. Their stunning victories are how legends are
made. We salute these extraordinary shooters and their
historic accomplishments. Full
story
Library of
Congress Photo Release ~January 14, 2008~
Be sure to check
out these four
historical photographs just released by the Library of
Congress. The photographs have never been published before
showing a very young Ben Higginson and a new photo of Plinky
Topperwein.
2008 PA State
Shoot ~June 7-15, 2008~
It's not too
early to make plans for the Pennsylvania State Shoot
in June. Camping and vendor information can be four here.
Area motel information can be found here.
Shoot program will be available on our web site as soon as
its is available.
Where did the ATA
logo come from?
For years I have
wondered where the famous ATA logo came from and who
designed the logo. It was actually developed between 1919
and 1923 by the old industry administered American
Trapshooting Association. I may have part of the answer or possibly
just more questions. You decide. Click
here for more information.
The Target
Shooters
2007 Pennsylvania Target Leaders
With
the usual suspects blasting away at record numbers of
targets, we now know who led the state in 2007. For the 4th
time in 5 years Tom Ezolt led the state in total
targets, blasting away at 40,050 combined targets. The late Dennis
Spancake was second with 32,700. Ezolt also led the
state in twin birds with 15,450. Malcolm McCord of
Tyron was second with 13,200. Spancake led the commonwealth
with 9,900 handicap birds while Vet James Blevins was
a distant second with 8,200. Robert "Mitch"
Mitchell of Clarks Summit shot at 21,000 singles targets
and Ezolt finished second with 19,350. More
information.
Andrew
Zborovsky of Trafford, PA led state singles shooters for
the first time with a .9912 average. He was one of only two
shooters in the state with a .9900 or better average. Richard
Brunell of Coopersburg led in handicap averages after
finishing second last season. Ken Darroch led the
state in twin bird targets for the tenth time. Stephanie
Sandler (right) led the state women in all three disciplines
(singles, handicap and doubles) in averages. The last lady
gunner to lead the state in all three events (average
grand slam) was PA Hall of Famer Mary
Christopher 46 years ago in 1961. Ken Darroch was the last
man to lead all three, back in 1995. Click
here for more
information.
Born
during the second year of the Civil War in 1862, Elmer
Shaner became one of the greatest figures in the history of
American trapshooting. A one room school teacher from
Slippery Rock, Shaner died in 1939 destitute in a
Masonic home in Elizabethtown. He left a legacy in
trapshooting circles that will be remembered as long as
trapshooting is around. He never shot a registered target. See
our 5th in a series of great photographs of Pennsylvania
trapshooting immortals.
John
Philip Sousa, the "March King", is a Trapshooting
HOF inductee. He shot in Pennsylvania on many occasions and
he died in Reading, PA in 1932. See
this wonderful photograph in the 4th of a series of old,
original photographs in my personal collection. At the time
of the photograph he was president of the old American
Trapshooting Association.
Ed Hellyer, 2
Time State Champion
Continuing
with our Historic Pennsylvania trapshooting photographs, we
have an unpublished
photo of Ed Hellyer of New Alexandria, PA. Ed "The
Village Miller" Hellyer won or tied for the state
Singles Championship three times and was one of the most
feared shooters of his time.
J. A. R. Elliott
at Honeybrook, PA
Another
in a series of long lost old time trapshooting photographs, this
photo shows Trapshooting HOF immortal J.A.R. Elliott shooting
clay targets at Honeybrook, PA. The village is located south of
Reading on PA Rt.10 in Chester County.........
Newly
Found Photos of Charlie Newcomb
PSSA
& ATA Trapshooting Hall of Fame webmaster and historian
Richard Hamilton has located some long lost, never
published photographs of Charlie Newcomb. He is a
Pennsylvania and ATA Hall of fame inductee.
Men:
3000-2000-1500
Women: 2000-1500-1000
Vets: 2000-1000-500
Sr. Vets: 2000-1000-500
Junior: 2000-1000-500
Plus:
Shoot the HAA
at the 2008
PA State Shoot.
by Richard Hamilton
Since the first year (1927) Pennsylvania has had 393 All
American selections. Data is current through the 2007
selections. California has 543 to lead the ATA. Ohio is
second with 489 selections.
Alice Crothers has completed the PA Average Grand
Slam 5 times, leading the state in singles, handicap,
doubles and composite average in the same target year. She
led the state women for 5 straight years from 1930-1934.
Frank Little has completed the PA Average Grand Slam
5 times, leading state men in singles, handicap, doubles and
composite average in the same target year.
Anna Mae Eberle was named captain of the women's All State
Team 7 times, a state record. Sonya Miller is second with 6.
(through 2008 teams)
Frank Little was named captain of the men's All State Team
12 times, a state record. Ken Darroch is second with seven
selections. (through 2008 teams)
Sixty three times Keystone State gunners have turned in
averages of 99% or better. Frank Little and Doc Ollock lead
with 10 times while Tom Galligher has 7. (through 2007
averages)
William Hazlett on winning the 1980 Grand American.
"All I can say is that I am from Pittsburgh and that's
the city of Champions." William won a Jeep Cherokee, a wad of
cash and a title he will hold for a lifetime.
That in 1994 Ken Darroch broke a 1091x1100 in the
State HOA. That's an average of .9918 folks. Walter
Beaver has the second highest HOA average with .9877 in
1938. (642x650)
That the PSSA is the "father" of the Pennsylvania
Game Commission, organized