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Published 5:00 am Thursday, June 9, 2011

• Central Oregon team wins sporting clays championship: The Central Oregon Sporting Clays Top Guns youth team won the JV Scholastic Clay Target Program State Championship this past Saturday at Siuslaw Gun Club in Florence.

Bailey O’Grady, 13, of Bend, took second place overall.

It was the first time competing for all members of the Top Guns, who all live in Bend. They used pump shotguns for the event.

Other members of the team include A.J. Untermeyer, 16; Brad Carroll, 17; Wyatt Gassner, 14; and Colby Atkinson, 17.

According to the National Sporting Clays Association, the Scholastic Clay Target Program is a team-based program for students in elementary through high school whose goal is to introduce youth to trap, skeet and sporting clays.

—Bulletin staff report