Sports : Red Cedar Shooters finish 5th at CF, only four points from first

25 straight: Red Cedar Shooters Logan Salger, Sara Jorgensen and Drake Tilson earned honor at CF.

Sara Jorgensen: 4th Place Lady Shooter at Cedar Falls

5th place team: Drake Tilson, Logan Salger, Hunter Voght, Sara Jorgensen, Jake Reisch.

The Vinton-Shellsburg Red Cedar Shooters trap team took home the 5th place trophy after a day of close competition at the Cedar Falls Gun Club's 28th Annual High School Trap Tournament Saturday.

The Red Cedar Shooters Black Squad turned in a team score of 223/250 in the regular competition round, which was just 4 shots out of 1st place. Tie-breaker shoot-off's for 2nd and 3rd place teams tied with 224/250, and a shoot-off for the Red Cedar Shooters for 4th and 5th place at 223/250 made for a day of very tight competition.

Red Cedar's Sara Jorgensen was involved in a shoot-off for the 4th place Lady top shot trophy, and Logan Salger was the Red Cedar Shooters high scoring individual of the day with 48/50, which placed him in a shoot-off for Male top shot honors.

The Red Cedar Shooters set a team record for the day with a total of 5 perfect 25-straight rounds being recorded.

Drake Tilson scored the first 25 straight of the day in practice rounds, Logan Salger recorded a 25 straight in the competition round from the 16 yard line, and Sara Jorgensen scored her first-ever 25 straight in the competition round, and did it from the 19 yard line.

During team shoot-off's, Drake Tilson and Sara Jorgensen each scored another 25 straight.

(Photos courtesy Pat Jorgensen)