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Show Junior Rifle Club, individuals place high in state competition The Springville-Mapleton Jr. Rifle Club sponsored by the Wildlife organization here, was well represented again this year at the Utah State Jr. Rifle Championship matches held Saturday at Highland High School in Salt Lake City. Competing in the matches were young people from 12 to 19 years of age from all sections sec-tions of the state, but mostly from Salt Lake and Ogden areas ar-eas where the ROTC units in the high schools have shooting offered as part of the school curriculum. Fewer awards were egiven this year because of eliminating second place in most events. Each shooter shot in prone, sitting, sit-ting, kneeling and standing positions. Individual as well as team events were held. Each event was separated bv aere ton, Michael Barrett and De- bra Herbert placed second. The C Team, consisting of Robert Woodw a r d, Blaine Belshaw, Clyde Snedeger and Mark Newton New-ton placed first and are the State C Class Team champions. Shooting this year with the SpringviUe-M a p 1 e t o n group were Randy Jasperson and Debra Herbert who have been with the Payson City Jr. Rifle Club but who joined with the SpringviUe-M a-p 1 e t o n group just prior to the state match. Coaching of the group was handled by Garth Killpack, club leader and Dick Newton, instructor. It's a pleasant life if you have enought money to pay your bills and a little bit left I over. groups into classes with the 17 and 18 year olds shooting in the A class; 14, 15, and 16 m the B class and 13 and under in the C class. Springville-Mapleton competitors compet-itors winning in the indivdual matches were: A Class Gene Gurr, first place sitting. B Class Stephen Harder, first place, kneeling. Debra Herbert had the high aggregate for all four positions in the B Class girls, just missing the State Jr. Girl Championship by three points. C Class Robert Woodward took first place in all matches except standing. Blaine Belshaw Bel-shaw took first place in the standing match and second place in the four position aggregate. ag-gregate. In the team events, the A Class team consisting of Gene Gurr, Karl Child, Randy Jasperson Jasper-son and Stephen Harder placed second. The B Team, consisting of Steven Killpack, Rick New- |