The Forest City Gun Club's Juniors program, the reigning five-time national champion, has entered the summer with a bang.
PHOTO: The Forest City Gun Club Juniors pose with their trophies after capturing the 2025 SCTP Georgia State Championship in dominant fashion. (Photo courtesy: DeDe Cargill)
There were actually many, many highly accurate bangs as the Forest City Juniors captured the 2025 Scholastic Clay Target Program Georgia State Championship last weekend at the Forest City Gun Club in Savannah.
After finishing in second place at the SCTP state competition the past two years, the Forest City Juniors won by 31 targets with a score of 1,079 – dropping only 21 targets across 11 rounds of 100.
Program director Lee Summerford called it "their most dominant performance in the 12-year history of the program" in announcing the results. The gun club's board in 2013 tasked Summerford and head coach Zac Guerrettaz with starting the juniors program, which began competing in the SCTP in 2014.
Last weekend, the standouts were Men's High Overall Award winner Mills Hollis, with a total score of 295 out of 300 in the three disciplines, and Ladies HOA winner Landyn Fries, with 281 out of 300.
PHOTO: SCTP State High Overall Award Winners — From left: Men's HOA winner Mills Hollis and Ladies HOA winner Landyn Fries proudly display their HOA trophies. (Photo courtesy: DeDe Cargill)
The Forest City Juniors swept skeet, trap, and sporting clays at the Varsity level. The program's shooters were stellar through all divisions, from Rookies through Collegiate.
Summerford noted that the Collegiate competitors have been busy studying "and hardly have time to practice, but they always show up for tournament time."
He credited Guerrettaz and the nearly 30 volunteer coaches who work weekly with the juniors.
"As I always say, they are the backbone of our program and truly the secret to our success," Summerford wrote. "Our coaching motto is, 'We are training champions,' and not one of us has not seen the impact this program has on the lives of these young men and women. I know it has made Jake (Summerford) the young man he is today."
Lee Summerford's son, Jake, is one of the original eight Forest City Juniors program members and a highly decorated champion.
Lee Summerford also thanked Forest City Gun Club members and sponsors for their support.
VARSITY
Winning HOA team scores were:
Sporting: Curt Jones 98, Mills Hollis 97, Chaz Palmer 94.
Skeet: Sam Anderson 100, Lucas McKenzie 100, Mills Hollis 99.
Trap: Mills Hollis 99, Gavin Walmsley 99, Chase Buerger 98, Landyn Fries 98, Lucas McKenzie 97.
Ladies HOA
1. Landyn Fries 281, 4. Georgia Kennedy 275, 5. Bailey Stokes 274, 8. Emaline Haddad 271, 10. Gracen Garceau 268.
Men's HOA
1. Mills Hollis 295, 4. Lucas McKenzie 290, T6. Curt Jones, Chaz Palmer 286.
Each of the sporting, skeet, and trap squads listed above was the Varsity champion. In addition, the Varsity Super Sporting squad of Mills Hollis, Chaz Palmer, and Lucas McKenzie took second place.
Individual Varsity results
Sporting: 2. Curt Jones 98, e. Mills Hollis 97.
Ladies: 2. Gracen Garceau 88, 3. Georgia Kennedy 88.
All-State Team: Curt Jones, Mills Hollis. Alternate: Chaz Palmer.
The All-State Team represents Georgia at the national championships against all other states. It consists of the top five scorers, and shooters 6-10 are alternates.
Skeet: 1. Sam Anderson 100, 2. Lucas McKenzie 100, 3. Mills Hollis 99.
Ladies: 3. Landyn Fries 96.
All-State Team: Sam Anderson, Lucas McKenzie, Mills Hollis. Alternate: Chaz Palmer.
Trap: 1. Mills Hollis 99, 2. Gavin Walmsley 99.
Ladies: 1. Landyn Fries 98, 2. Emaline Haddad 97.
All-State Team: Mills Hollis, Gavin Walmsley, Landy Fries. Alternates: Chase Buerger, Lucas McKenzie, Emaline Haddad.
The Forest City Juniors recorded six top-10 scores out of over 500 shooters.
Super Sporting: 3. Mills Hollis 46.
Ladies: 1. Emaline Haddad 44.
JUNIOR VARSITY
First-year shooter Nora Lynes scored 91 in skeet to win the Lady's JV championship.
INTERMEDIATE-ADVANCED
Sporting Clays
Third-place squad: Jacob Butler 93, Raj Kamaleson 90, Chip Klein 85.
Individual: Jacob Butler 93.
Skeet:
Second-place squad: Caleb Vo 95, Hunter Martin 94, Rett Shurling 93.
Trap
Second-place squad: Rett Shurling 90, Caleb Vo 86, Chip Klein 86, Jacob Butler 84, Raj Kamaleson 84.
Super Sporting
First-place squad: Archer Ritchie, 45, Hunter Martin, 44, and Caleb Vo, 43.
Individual: T3. Archer Ritchie 45.
HOA: 5. Jacob Butler, 7. Raj Kamaleson, 9. Caleb Vo.
INTERMEDIATE ENTRY
Sporting
Second-place squad: Sam Thorpe 87, Ansley McIntosh 82, Mac Reardon 77.
Individual: 3. Sam Thorpe 87.
Ladies: 2. Ansley McIntosh 82.
Super Sporting
Second-place squad: Sam Thorpe 42, Ansley McIntosh 38, Wynn Palmer 37.
Individual: 2. Sam Thorpe 42.
Ladies: 2. Ansley McIntosh 38.
Skeet
First-place squad: Mac Reardon 95, Ansley McIntosh 93, Sam Thorpe 89.
Individual: 1. Mac Reardon 95.
Ladies: 1. Ansley McIntosh 93.
Trap
First-place squad: Mac Reardon 87, Ansley Mcintosh 83, Wynn Palmer 78, Sam Thorpe 76, Lucas Lockwood 73.
Ladies: 2. Ansley McIntosh 83.
Intermediate Entry – HOA
Ladies runner-up: Ansley McIntosh 258/300.
Individual: 4. Mac Reardon 259/300.
Both McIntosh and Reardon are first-year shooters.
ROOKIES
Sporting Clays
Second-place squad: Hunter Vick 82, Hunter Brigdon 78, Mason Guerrettaz 77.
Individual: 2. Hunter Vick 82.
Skeet
First-place squad: Hunter Vick 95, Hunter Brigdon 90, and Mason Guerrettaz 74.
Individual: 1. Hunter Vick 95, 2. Hunter Brigdon 90.
Trap
Second-place squad: Hunter Brigdon 90, Hunter Vick 77, Zach Grassi 65, Alden Shahein 57, John Klein 51.
Individual: 1. Hunter Brigdon 90.
Super Sporting
First-place squad: Hunter Brigdon, 40; Hunter Vick, 37; Mason Guerrettaz, 34.
Individual: 1. Hunter Brigdon 40.
HOA Rookie: 1. Hunter Brigdon 258, 3. Hunter Vick 254, 10. Zach Grassi 209.
COLLEGIATE
Sporting Clays
First-place squad: Jackson Ferland 98, Owen Haas 97, James Daters 94.
Individual: 1. Jackson Ferland 98, 2. Owen Haas 97.
Skeet
Second-place squad: James Daters 98, Aiden Strickland 97, Lawson Zhou 97.
Trap
First-place squad: Owen Haas 100, Jackson Ferland 98, James Daters 98, Aiden Strickland 90, Lawson Zhou 88.
Individual: 1. Owen Haas 100.
Super Sporting
First-place squad: Jackson Ferland 49, Owen Haas 49, Lawson Zhou 44.
Individual: 1. Jackson Ferland 49, 3. Owen Haas 49.
Collegiate HOA: 1. Owen Haas 293, 2. Jackson Ferland 291, 3. James Daters 290.
FOREST CITY JUNIORS' SCTP NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
2024 (2,132 of 2,220 targets)
2023 (2,110 of 2,220)
2022 (2,122 of 2,200)
2021 (2,106 of 2,200)
2020 (2,093 of 2,200)
Photo Credits: Courtsey DeDe Cargill for the Forest City Gun Club Juniors
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