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Show JUNIOR RIFLE TEAM GOES TO NRA MATCH Scoring 185 of a possible 200 points, Robert Bates, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Bates of Copperton, Cop-perton, won top spot on the Small Bore Rifle Team from Copperton Cop-perton which will compete in the National Sectional matches in Salt Lake City on Saturday, according ac-cording to J. D. Laycock. His team mates will be Stanley Pullan, Pul-lan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pullan; Bill Fike, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Fike; Kenny Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Davis, Da-vis, and Maynard Berg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Throckmorton, Throck-morton, all of Copperton. They will represent the junior division of the Oquirrh Rifle and Pistol Club, competing with teams from Utah and the surrounding states. The individual and team matches match-es will be fired at the South High School range in Salt Lake City April 21, starting at 8 a.m. Three of the boys, Bates, Pullan Pul-lan and Fike were members of the 1955 team which won third place in the Salt Lake sectional match. Bates was awarded a medal me-dal for winning fourth place in the individual match. His score placed him in the top quarter of the 4142 competitors in national ranking. The team placed midway mid-way among the 734 teams entered enter-ed in the tournament from the continental United States, Canal Zone, Hawaii, and Alaska. |