NASP ARCHERY - Emmerich a double winner; Raiders, Pirates do well at Thorp

NASP ARCHERY

Medford and Gilman students made the short trip to Thorp Saturday for the fifth annual Thorp Cardinal Archery Shootout and several local archers put themselves at or near the top of the bullseye and 3-D standings.

In the bullseye shoot, Medford and Gilman ranked second and third in the high school team standings with 3,215 and 3,091 points, respectively. Cadott won the team title with 3,336 points. Gilman was 38 points ahead of Elk Mound for the third spot. Gilman also placed seventh in the middle school division with 2,527 points. Thorp won that division with 3,085 team points.

Individually, Medford sixth grader Dylan Emmerich was the second-highest scoring archer of the entire meet. With 22 of his 30 shots scoring 10 points, he finished with 291 points out of a possible 300 and won the middle school boys championship out of 98 entrants. The only archer to outscore him overall was Marshfield sophomore Dylann Brogan, who shot a 295 to win the boys high school division.

Stratford’s Noah Bornbach was six points behind Emmerich and placed second in the boys middle school division. Gilman seventh grader Wyatt Stephens was third with a 280, while Medford eighth grader Jake Erl was fourth with a 279 and Gilman seventh grader Colton Lang was fifth with a 279. Medford eighth grader Brock Anderson was seventh at 276.

Gilman had some high marks in the girls middle school division. Eighth grader Jazmyn Robinson was third out of 80 competitors with a score of 276 and her classmates Shyan Pentimone and Reece Weir were fourth and fifth with scores of 272 and 269. Cadott’s Megan LaNou won with a 278. Also from the Pirate Archery Club, fourth grader Addison Lang was third out of 26 girls in the elementary division (grades 4-5) with a score of 206, while Emma Partridge was sixth at 190. Medford’s Chloe Krueger was 13th with her 159.

In the high school division, Medford’s Mattie Gebert and Ezra Hillebrand both shot 283s with 16 10-point shots. Gebert placed third out of 80 girls, while Hillebrand was fourth out of 79 boys. Raider Jenna Wickersheim was 11th among girls with a 277. Gilman’s Dalton Wisocky shot a 279 to place eighth among boys. Cornell’s Faith Kubista won the girls championship with a 286.

In the 3-D shoot, Medford won the high school team championship with 1,672 points, 57 ahead of runner-up Cornell, while Gilman placed fourth with 1,587 points, 12 behind Marshfield. The Pirates were third out of seven middle school teams with 1,430 points, trailing Thorp (1,549) and Augusta (1,492).

Wickersheim and Hillebrand led Medford’s run to the high school team title with scores of 289 out a possible 300. Both placed second by gender behind Kubista (290) and Brogan (289, 21 tens to Hillebrand’s 20). Raider Mattie Gebert placed fourth in girls competition with her 282, Kadence Weix was seventh with a 274 and Ashton Behling was 10th among boys at 275.

Gilman’s top-ranking high schoolers were Mylie Stephens (268) and Alison Krizan (268), who were ninth and 10th out of 42 girls.

Emmerich won another middle school boys title with a score of 274. Colton Lang was fourth for Gilman at 268 and Stephens was seventh at 257. Pentimone was fourth out of 41 middle school girls with a 263, Robinson was sixth at 254 and Weir was eighth at 248. Krueger was third out of 12 elementary girls with a 189 and Addison Lang was fourth at 181.

Gilman shoot Saturday

The Gilman Pirate Archery Club will host its annual bullseye and 3-D shoots this Saturday, Feb. 3 at the Gilman Schools Complex.

Competition in both events will be held in 10 flights, starting at 7 a.m. The bullseye flights will include a maximum of 52 archers each. The final flights are scheduled to take place at 4:40 p.m.