NASP ARCHERY - Medford shoot is next for local archers; teams were at Augusta, Point last weekend

NASP ARCHERY

The busy season of competition for local youth archers makes its annual stop at Medford Area Middle School this weekend for the 12th annual Medford Archery Club bullseye and sixth annual 3D tournaments.

Last year’s events drew 480 competitors to the bullseye shoot and another 268 shot in the 3-D competition. As of early this week, there were few openings remaining in the 15 bullseye and 3-D flights.

The event starts with four bullseye and 3-D flights at 5, 6, 7 and 8 p.m. on Friday. A full day of competition on Saturday includes 11 bullseye and 3-D flights that start at the top of each hour from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Concessions, raffles and door prizes will be available. Line prizes will be awarded to archers after every flight.

Medford’s archers competed in the Wisconsin Bowhunters Association Bullseye Shootout in Stevens Point and at Augusta this past weekend. Gilman also competed at Augusta.

For Medford at Stevens Point, Ezra Hillebrand earned a score of 286 out of a possible 300 to rank third out of 34 boys in the high school division. Hillebrand trailed Noah Bornbach of Stratford (291) and William Vehring of Portage (289).

Hank Paul was eighth at 277, while Naomi Fleegel was 12th out of 36 high school girls with a score of 267. Chet Paul was the team’s top middle school scorer at 258, ranking 15th out of 37 boys.

In Augusta, Gilman won the high school team championship in the 3-D shoot, totaling 1,632 points to beat runner-up Thorp by 60. In all, six schools had scoring teams.

Medford’s Mattie Gebert was the top local scorer. She earned a score of 289 to win the girls high school division by 18 points over Augusta’s Roella Weiss. There were 46 girls in the division. Hillebrand won the high school boys division at 283. He was seven points ahead of runner-up Erick Sandoval of Elk Mound.

Gilman’s Wyatt Stephens placed third out of 59 middle school boys with his score of 279, trailing the meet’s overall champion, Jack Glenz of Becker, Minn. (292) and Matthew Bores of St. Patrick’s Catholic School in Sparta (291).

The Pirates got a 272 out of Makii Austin Mallo, fourth among 34 high school boys; a 271 from Colton Lang, seventh among middle school boys, and a 271 from Alison Krizan, fourth among high school girls. Ava Webster shot a 270, Mylie Stephens shot a 269, Shyan Pentimone shot a 268 and Jazmyn Robinson shot a 267 as they took sixth, seventh, 10th and 11th among high school girls. Addison Lang’s 219 was seventh among elementary girls.

Medford’s Jax Gosse was eighth in the middle school boys division at 268, Karson Ecklund was 11th at 264 and Allison Metz was 20th among middle school girls at 229. Wyllow Freudenthal was third out of 18 elementary girls at 249.

In the bullseye shoot at Augusta, Gilman finished second out of nine high school teams with 3,268 points. Cadott won the shoot with 3,353 points. Elk Mound was third at 3,142.

Gebert’s 286 was the highest local score. She ranked second out of 106 high school girls. Gosse had a strong meet with a 285 that put him fourth out of 115 middle school boys, while Hillebrand shot a 283 to rank second out of 81 high school boys. Freudenthal’s 266 put her second in the elementary girls competition and Jaxson Sackmann was 10th among 39 boys at 230.

Krizan led Gilman with a 282 that put her third, just behind Gebert and Cadott’s Lorelai Puchalski (285). Wyatt Stephens was fifth in the middle school boys division at 282, just ahead of Colton Lang, who also got a 282. Mylie Stephens was seventh among high school girls with her 280. Addison Lang shot a 260 to place third among 26 girls in the elementary division.