May 6, 1998
(Tourism, Culture and Recreation)

The following is being distributed at the request of Sport Newfoundland and Labrador:

Junior Shooter Wins

Jeff Barbour, a junior shooter with the Mount Pearl Senior High Air Rifle Club, scored 524 out of a possible 600 points on his way to winning two individual events and one team event in the Caribou Gun Club Invitational Air Gun Competition shot last weekend at three shooting clubs.

Barbour won gold in sharpshooter class and junior class and teamed up with Jeremy Boone to claim the team gold with a total score of 971. St. Catherine's Academy finished second with 909 points.

Dave Woolridge, of MUN Rifle Club, won master class scoring 518 just two points more than runner up Claude Pike.

Scott Haye of the Mount Pearl Huskies shot 469 to win marksman class with silver and bronze going to Chris Linehan and Julie Dunphy both from St. Catherine's Academy. Haye and Linehan also won the silver and bronze in junior class.

Adrian Pardy, Steve Greeley and Paul Miller, all of the Mount Pearl Huskies, finished first, second and third in tyro class.

Dunphy, with her score of 459, won the ladies class. Amber Cumming, of 764 Air Cadet Squadron in Happy Valley-Goose Bay won silver with the bronze going to Janine Lewis, Dunphy's teammate.

In air pistol, Mark Hynes of Bristol's Hope, finished first with a score of 568. Roy Hynes finished second with 538 points.

Thirty-five competitors representing seven shooting clubs participated in the three day competition.

Contact: Claude Pike, (709) 368-9336.

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