CROOKSTON, Minn. – The University of Minnesota Crookston trap team is in third place out of five teams in the USA College Clay Target League 1A-Conference 4. The Golden Eagles have completed three weeks of the 2022 season. Minnesota Crookston had an overall score of 442.0 during week three. They have 1,769.0 total points. The Golden Eagles are 306.5 points behind Lake Superior College, who is currently in second place. Southwest Wisconsin Technical College is in first place with 2,267.5 points. UMN Crookston leads Lake Area Technical College by 240 points. Mount Aloysius College is in fifth place.

Cole Girtz (Jr., Park Rapids, Minn.), Lily Krona (So., Bemidji, Minn.), and Nick Grams (Sr., Belle Plaine, Minn.) of Minnesota Crookston is currently tied for 20^th for the best season average of 23.83. Brandon Van Den Einde (Fr., Fertile, Minn.) is tied for 37^th in the entire conference with an average of 23.5.

Krona remains tied for the top female in the USA College Clay Target League with an average of 23.83. Alyssa Kasprick (Sr., Thief River Falls, Minn.) is sixth in the league for all females with an average of 22.83. Hailey Olson (Jr., Albertville, Minn.) is tied for ninth for females in the league with an average of 22.5.

Grams and Girtz are tied for ninth in 1A-Conference 4 for all males with an average of 23.83. Krona leads all female shooters in 1A-Conference 4 with a 23.83 average. Kasprick is fourth of all females in the conference. Olson is sixth of all females, while Heather Kaup (Fr., Forest Lake, Minn.) is seventh with an average of 22.33.

The Golden Eagles were guided by Grams and Krona in week three, both hit 48-of-50 targets at the Crookston Gun Club. Girtz was 46-of-50 for the week. Kasprick went 45-of-50 for the week, as did Collin Schlomann (Fr., Redwood Falls, Minn.) and Van Den Einde. Kaup was 44-of-50 for the week for the Golden Eagles. Madie Wildfeuer (Sr., Ormsby, Minn.) went 43-of-50. Gracie Lunsetter (So., Gatzke, Minn.), Olson, Ellen Payne (So., St. Louis Park, Minn.), Peyton Verbout (Sr., Goodridge, Minn.), and Charles Walsh (Sr., Park Rapids, Minn.) went 42-of-50. Josiah Bullivant (Sr., Dassel, Minn.) and Jaeden McCleary (Sr., Enderlin, Minn.) went 41-of-50. Hunter Kasprowicz (So., Radium, Minn.) finished 40-of-50 for the week. Lane Hanson (Fr., Ada, Minn.) and Kelsey Harms (Fr., Norwood Young America, Minn.) were 39-of-50, while Ethan Benedict (Fr., Maple Grove, Minn.) was 31-of-50.

Minnesota Crookston begins week four of the season for the USA College Clay Target League.