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Sunday’s shoot-off. Bob Eyler’s 300 with a nearperfect
29 X’s was top on Friday, followed closely
by Jim Despart and Keith Trail with 28 X’s. Scott
Starnes, Dave Cousins, Chance Beaubouef,
Braden Gellenthien, and Jedd Greshock had 27
X’s. The X-count for the balance of the fifty-two
300’s in this division ranged from 26 down to 18
— all with a chance to make the finals.
Six perfect 300’s were also shot in the Freestyle
Flights; namely, Seneca Nunez, Derrick
Poet, Mark Jackson, and Steven Gatto from the
US, plus Mario Angel Gonzalez from Mexico and
Simon Dingle from England. They were joined
by Steve Boylan and Paul Stephens, Championship
Senior Freestyle Division; Jeff Human,
Championship Bowhunter Freestyle Division;
John Wheeler, Bowhunter Freestyle Flights;
England’s Nicola Simpson, Championship Female
Freestyle Division; and the youngest of the
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“perfects,” Garrett Ayersman, Youth Male Freestyle.
In addition the those shooting 300, other
adult Friday leaders in the Championship Divisions
included: Rick Stark, 290, Barebow;
Ashley Butler, 298, Female Crossbow; William
Prim, 299, Male Crossbow; Jeff Fabry, 298, Male
Freestyle Limited Compound; Jennifer Nichols,
288, Female Freestyle Limited Recurve; and Scott
McKechnie, 296, Male Freestyle Limited Recurve.
Sixteen of the eighteen Youth Divisions were
represented at this year’s Vegas Shoot. In addition
to Garrett Ayersman’s perfect 300 in YMFS,
other outstanding first round scores were turned
in by Michael DeCosta and Mexico’s Rodolfo
Gonzalez, 293, Cub Male Freestyle; Japan’s Tono
Kohji, 287, Cub Male Recurve; Jessica Heeg, 296,
Young Adult Female Freestyle; Kristin Braun,
285, Young Adult Female Recurve; Shaun Larsen,
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298, Young Adult Male Freestyle; Paige Pearce,
296, Youth Female Freestyle; and Mexico’s Pedro
Martinez and Ernesto Boardman, 292, Youth
Male Recurve.
ROUND TWO, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD
This second of three days is when all shooters
get to shoot with their competition, as well
as the final day for all Cubs, Youth and Young
Adults. Those remaining perfect with 600’s
through the second day of competition were
reduced from 64 to 20 — all in the Championship
Freestyle Male Division. In addition, there
were forty-eight 599’s distributed among five
Divisions.
Based on a 56 X-count, Jim Despart, Bob Eyler
and Chance Beaubouef led the Championship
Freestyle “600” parade. The X-count for the
remaining seventeen still-perfect ranged from
55 to 44 — all with a chance to win on Sunday.
Thanks to 300’s on Saturday, Tim Ewers and
David Gravlin passed Jeff Human and Eric Griggs
(who also shot 300) for the Championship Bowhunter
Freestyle lead. Tiffany Reeves also shot
a 300 on Saturday to tie Nichola Simpson with
599 in the Championship Female Freestyle Division.
Scott McKechnie slipped four places while
Sweden’s Magnus Petersson jumped into the
Championship Male Recurve lead. In the Championship
Senior Freestyle Division, Steve Boylan
maintained a one point lead over Paul Stephens
and Ed Reichert, who shot a 300 on Saturday.
All other Friday leaders in the Championship
Divisions held on to their leads Saturday.
The nearly 200 Youth shooters completed
their rounds on Saturday morning. There were
some very fine aggregate scores shot, most
notably Shaun Larsen’s 597 in YAMFS, Paige
Pearce’s 593 in YFFS, Garrett Ayersman’s 596
in YMFS, Ernesto Boardman’s 582 and Pedro
Martinez’s 581 in YMR, Rodolfo Gonzalez’s 586
in CMFS, and Tono Kohji’s 565 in CMR.
The Youth Awards Ceremony was held Saturday
at 12:30 pm in the Grande Ballroom. It was
quite an honor to have the awards presented by
The final two: Michael Braden and Dave Cousins. Dave
was perfect through all five shoot-off ends
Jim Easton, President of Easton Sports, and Greg
Easton, President of Easton Technical Products.
Then, in the presence of hundreds of friends and
family members, all Youth medalists posed with
the Eastons and WAF President, Bruce Cull, for
the traditional group photo beneath the “Welcome
to the Vegas Shoot” arch. Please see the
accompanying list of all Youth scores, or visit
www.fieldarchery.com. Congratulations to all!
ROUND THREE, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24TH
Virtually every sport has their crowd-pleasing
way of breaking ties at the championship level,
but the Vegas Shoot is rather unique. While Xcount
is used to determine the order of finish in
the non-championship divisions and flights, all
Vegas Championship shooters tied for first place
after ninety arrows, not considering X-count,
must face an end-by-end shoot-off in front of a
very large and boisterous audience. The Vegas
shoot-off rules are as follows: After two ends of
sudden death using standard Vegas scoring, the
third and subsequent ends are scored with the
X-ring as a “10.” All other “gold” hits are scored
as “9’s.”
This year, the sole shoot-off needed was in the
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