Well, our last day of our 2025 Ken Hanlin league was held Sunday November 9 amid colder temps and rain at times. It seemed somehow appropriate in that we lost a good man, Jack Wall, on Wednesday October 29.
Jack was a very good shooter as well as a great help here at the club since his retirement from the PA State Police. You can find Jack’s obituary using legacy.com web site by searching his name. We here at the club will miss him greatly and our condolences go out to his brother Steve as well as his whole family. The club has chosen to honor our friend by naming our winter skeet/trap league after him.
Quite a few shooters missed the last week obviously for various reasons, but the hearty souls that showed up to finish up posted some good scores in the sketchy conditions.
Click here for all 2025 Ken Hanlin skeet-trap league scores
Joel Stewart ran the only 25, that being in trap, but he also broke 24 in skeet, so he showed up to claim the top HOA prize breaking a total of 287. HOA runner-up prize went to Jim Courtwright with his 278 total.
As is our rule, one prize per shooter, skeet 1st went to Mike Wojtecki who broke 139 with Matt Benchek taking 2nd, just two back at 137. Trap 1st was captured by Howard Maille’s 141. Trap 2nd ended in a tie between Gary Dickerson and his good friend, up till just now, Dave Zillian. They busted 136. Rumor has it that they intend to run a 10k to determine who takes the goods.
Some (mostly) fun facts:
Prize money aside, Joel fired both the actual high skeet (145) and high trap (142) scores.
Amy Dunn, Jim Dwyer, Larry Price, and Mike Rouch broke just one more trap target than skeet target.
Jack Wall had broken just one more skeet target more than trap thru his five weeks of competition.
Robert Clark broke five straight 23’s in trap thru week 5, missing week 6. Could’ve been a straight.
There were 14 who shot behind once and 10 who shot ahead once.
There were nine 25 straight skeet rounds and six straight trap scores, proving that trap must be the harder sport. Whoa!
There were twenty 24’s in skeet and twenty-one 24’s in trap, proving that skeet is the harder sport ;>)