2025 SCTP Southeast Regional Championship

As a coaching staff who has won 5 consecutive National Championships, you always wonder what the next season is going to look like. All eyes are again on us as everyone is after the top dog. As the Savannah Morning News quoted then Gun Club President E. J. Kieffer in 1894, “the Forest City Gun Club never refuses a challenge of any kind,” and, based on this weekend, that still applies. After losing the SCTP Southeast Regional tournament last year by 5 targets, we were determined to get back to the top. We did that with room to spare winning the Team HOA by 16 targets and, for the first time ever, claiming the Triple Crown with Team HOA, Mens HOA by Mills Hollis with a stunning 292/300 and Ladies HOA by Emaline Haddad with 280/300. Aside from Emaline Haddad as Ladies HOA, 3 other Ladies made the Top 10 Ladies HOA: 5 th Landyn Fries, 8 th Gracen Garceau and 10 th Ayden McKenzie.

Men's HOA Mills Hollis

Ladies HOA Emaline Haddad

It was, however, a sad weekend as we recently lost one of our dads and biggest overall supporters in Scot Ritchie. He was and will be missed, and we are dedicating our season to honor Scot this year as we go to Win Six for Scot!

The Team HOA consisted of the Top 3 Scores from all shooters in Skeet and Sporting and the Top 5 in Trap. Making the winning team were:

Skeet: Mills Hollis (99), Sam Anderson (98) and Ayden McKenzie (98)

Sporting: Mills Hollis (96), Chase Buerger (88) and Miles Carson (88)

Trap: Emaline Haddad (99), Mills Hollis (97), Gracen Garceau (96), Lucas McKenzie (96) and Caleb Vo (95) (and he’s only a 7 th Grader!!!)

As the team took shape in the early years, those scores would have all been by the same 5 shooters, but as you can see, the program has gotten so much deeper with 9 shooters contributing and many other tying some of those scores. We are deep across all our divisions!

In our Varsity Division, we had the following honors:

Trap

1st Place Team: Emaline Haddad (99), Mills Hollis (97), Gracen Garceau (96), Lucas McKenzie (96), Landyn Fries (93)

1st Place Ladies Emaline Haddad (99), 2 nd Place Ladies Gracen Garceau (96)

Skeet

1st Place Team: Mills Hollis (99), Marshall Kent (98) and Sam Anderson (98)

Men: 1st Place Mills Hollis (99)

Ladies: 1st Place Ayden McKenzie (98), 2 nd Place Landyn Fries (97)

Sporting Clays

3rd Place Team: Mills Hollis (96), Chase Buerger (88) and Miles Carson (88)

Mens: 1 st Place Mills Hollis (96)

Ladies: 3 rd Place Emaline Haddad (87)

Super Sporting

3rd Place Team: Mills Hollis (47), Lucas McKenzie (46) and Curt Jones (45)

Mens: 3 rd Place Mills Hollis (47)

Ladies: 3 rd Place Landyn Fries (43)

Junior Varsity

Super Sporting

3 rd Place Team: Oliver Whelan (45), Walker Brown (41) and Sterling Reciar (39)

Mens: 2 nd Place Oliver Whelan (45)

New shooter Sterling Recicar also shot his first 25 straight in skeet.

Intermediate-Advanced

We are historically strong in the Intermediate-Advanced division (7 th and 8 th Graders), which is always very competitive, and this year is no different.

Sporting Clays

1st Place Team:  Jacob Butler (86), Raj Kamaleson (81) and Caleb Vo (80)

Men’s Individual Clean Sweep: 1 st Place Jacob Butler (86), 2 nd Place Raj Kamaleson

(81) and 3 rd Place Caleb Vo (80)

Skeet

1st Place Team:  Chip Klein (97), Hunter Martin (95), Jacob Butler (95)

Men: 1 st Place Chip Klein (97), Tied for 3 rd Place: Hunter Martin (95), Jacob Butler (95) and Raj Kamaleson (95)

Trap

2nd Place Team:  Caleb Vo (95), Chip Klein (85), Hunter Martin (82), Rett Shurling (80), Jacob Butler (77)

Men: 3 rd Place Caleb Vo (95)               

Super Sporting

2nd Place Team:  Jacob Butler (43), Archer Ritchie (40), Raj Kamaleson (39)

Men: 2 nd Place Jacob Butler (43)

Caleb Vo’s 266/300 was the top Intermediate HOA Score for the tournament and good to tie for 30 th of all Men shooters.

Intermediate-Entry

Sporting Clays

3 rd Place Team: Deacon Fetterman (73), Mac Reardon (69) and Sam Thorpe (65)

Men; 1 st Place Deacon Fetterman (73)

Ladies: 1 st Place Ansley McIntosh (58)

Super Sporting

3 rd Place Team: Sam Thorper (39), Deacon Fetterman (38) and Lucas Lockwood (37)

Ladies: 1 st Place Ansley McIntosh (29)

Skeet

1 st Place Team: Sam Thorper (89), Mac Reardon (89) and Ansley McIntosh (84)

Mens: 2nd Place Sam Thorpe (89), 3 rd Place Mac Reardon (89)

Ladies: 1 st Place Ansley McIntosh (84)

Trap

1 st Place Team: Sam Thorper (85), Lucas Lockwood (81), Ansley McIntosh (79), Wynn Palmer (75) and Mac Reardon (69)

Ladies: 1 st Place Ansley McIntosh (79)

Rookies (5 th Grade and below)

Sporting Clays

1 st Place Team: Hunter Brigdon (81), Hunter Vick (68) and Mason Guerrettaz (57)

Men: 1 st Place Hunter Brigdon (81)

Skeet

1 st Place Team: Hunter Vick (88), Hunter Brigdon (88) and John Klein (78)

Men: 1 st Place Hunter Vick (88), 2 nd Place Hunter Brigdon (88)

Trap

1 st Place Team: Hunter Brigdon (91), Hunter Vick (78), Zack Grassi (62), John Klein (60) and Mason Guerrettaz (52)

Men: 1 st Place Hunter Brigdon (91)

Super Sporting

1 st Place Team: Hunter Brigdon (39), Zack Grassi (38) and Hunter Vick (32)

Men: 1 st Place Hunter Brigdon (39), 2 nd Place Zack Grassi (38)