The Mitchell High School trapshooting team is among more than 40 high school teams that will compete in the South Dakota State High School Clay Target League tournament this weekend.
By Nick Simonson
The North Dakota State High School Clay Target League (ND CTL) will be holding its annual state tournament at the Shooting Park in Horace, N.D., June 18-20, playing host to approximately 1,000 shooters from 60 high schools and showcasing some of the best shotgunning talent in the state over those three days in both trap and skeet competitions.
Coming off the pandemic which cancelled the event in 2020, ND CTL Director Joe Courneya is excited to see how this spring’s expansion in the number of teams has impacted the year-end competition after a season off.
“We have added a day…our athletes are broken up based on team size by conferences, and so we’ll start on Friday with conference 1A, and they’ll shoot their tournament and receive their awards, and then we’ll tear down and set up for Conference 2A on Saturday, and do the same thing over again for 3A on Sunday,” Courneya relates of the three-day event which is expanded from 2019’s two-day trap sho
“We had a very long period of nice weather other than the wind,” Power said. “Typically, you’ll get three, four, five days of super warm weather and then you get a (wintry) blast like we have right now,” Power said Tuesday, April 13. “But we had three weeks of incredibly warm weather straight.”
Crews also set nets in Lake Oahe, Rice Lake and Lake Ashtabula, Power said, but lack of runoff across the state resulted in marginal pike runs, and all of the pike eggs came from Pelican.
“We got the numbers, and it appears the quality is exceptional again, so we’re in good shape,” he said.
By Doug Barrett
Apr 11, 2021 3:56 PM
Americans are proving remarkably reliable in how they are spending their federal stimulus payments. The New York Federal Reserve released a study this week that showed Americans are using most of the money for paying down debt and for savings, with a smaller portion going to actual spending. According to the report, households, on average, are using or plan to use about 41.6% of the latest relief payment toward savings, 33.7% toward debt and 24.7% for spending. The percentage for each category has stayed relatively stable for each of the three rounds of payments.
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose last week to 744,000, signaling that many employers are still cutting jobs even as more people are vaccinated against COVID-19, consumers gain confidence and the government distributes aid throughout the economy. The Labor Department said Thursday that applications increased by 16,000 from 728,000 a week earlie