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Several take podium at last regular season tournament
Macey Wobbema pulls back her bowstring to line up her arrow with her 3-D target. Wobbema took first place in the 3-D tournament with a score of 279.
NR-S archers, Layton Jacobson (left) and Sawyer Huso (center) and Wilton archer Gage Wolf (right) took the podium for the middle school boys division, after earning first, second and third places respectively in the bullseye tournament.
Austin Weisenburger (left) and Fisher Genre (right) celebrate Genre as he won the elementary shoot-out at the end of the tournament. Genre was awarded a gift card to Scheels.
NR-S freshman, Hunter Genre, lines up his arrow with the bullseye during the Rolla Bullseye Tournament on Saturday, March 12. Genre took first in all divisions.
Carrington archer, Maggie Wobbema (left), and Kensal archer, Kelby Gjovik (right), look down their arrows to line them up with the bullseye. Wobbema shot a score of 244, taking 12th in the high school girls division, whereas Gjovik shot a score of 261, taking seventh in the high school girls division.
The New Rockford-Sheyenne archery team competed in their final regular archery tournament on March 12 in Rolla before heading to Minot on March 18-19 to shoot their hearts out in the state bullseye and 3-D tournaments.
The Rockets' archers finished their last regular archery tournament with a bang, figuratively.
Let's start off with the 3-D tournament.
NR-S senior Macey Wobbema shot her best score yet this year, shooting a score of 279 with 18 tens. Wobbema secured first place in not only overall girls, but also in the high school girls and 12th grade girls divisions. Wobbema took second place overall in the 3-D tournament, falling to Connor Kose of Mt. Pleasant schools, who shot a 286 with 18 tens.
Layton Jacobson brought home third place overall in boys with a shot of 270 with 10 tens. Jacobson also placed second in the middle school boys and seventh grade boys divisions. Hunter Genre also shot a score of 270, but fell to Jacobson by one ten, only shooting nine. Genre took fourth in overall boys, second in high school boys and first in ninth grade boys. Jacobson placed fifth overall in the 3-D tournament, whereas Genre took sixth.
Rockets' sixth graders Sawyer Huso, Beau Baumbach and Koy Zieman also placed in the top ten. Huso shot a score of 268 with 10 tens, taking first in sixth grade boys, third in middle school boys and fifth in overall boys. Baumbach took second in sixth grade boys, fourth in middle school boys and sixth in overall boys with a score of 262 with seven tens. Zieman shot a 256 with eight tens, taking third in sixth grade boys, fifth in middle school boys and eighth in overall boys. Huso took seventh place, Baumbach took 12th and Zieman took 18th overall in the 3-D tournament.
Eli Alfstad took third place in seventh grade boys, sixth in middle school boys and ninth in overall boys with his score of 255 with eight tens.
Ninth grader Kailar Jacobson fell short of the top-ten for the Rockets, only shooting a score of 253 with five tens. Jacobson took second place in ninth grade boys, fifth in high school boys and 13th in overall boys.
New Rockford-Sheyenne, Mt. Pleasant and Wilton schools took over the top ten placings for the 3-D tournament. Let's start off with Mt. Pleasant placers. Along with Kose taking first place, Madison Samuelson placed third with a score of 276 with 10 tens. McKenna Samuelson and Hannah Neameyer split eighth and ninth place respectively. Samuelson shot a score of 266 with 10 tens and Neameyer shot a score of 265 with seven tens.
Gage Wolf of Wilton secured fourth place with a shot of 270 with 14 tens. Aysia Frederick, also of Wilton, took 10th place with her shot of 264 with 10 tens.
Other local top placers in the 3-D tournament were Kelby Gjovik, of Kensal, taking 13th place overall with a score of 261 with 12 tens; Kelsi Neuman, of Carrington, taking 14th place overall with a score of 261 with 10 tens and Brekka Kuss, also of Carrington, taking 16th place with a shot of 257 and 11 tens.
NR-S also had seven top-ten placings in the bullseye tournament.
Genre blew it out of the park with a score of 285 with 20 tens, securing first place in overall boys, high school boys, ninth grade boys and overall in the entire bullseye tournament. L. Jacobson followed closely behind Genre with a score of 283 with 18 tens, taking first in middle school boys and seventh grade boys, and second place in overall boys and overall in the tournament.
K. Jacobson shot two points shy of L. Jacobson, shooting a 281 with 18 tens, taking second in ninth grade boys, third in high school boys and fourth in overall boys and overall in the entire tournament.
Huso took first in sixth grade boys, second in middle school boys and fifth in overall boys with a score of 276 with 14 tens. Huso finished the tournament in seventh place overall. Wobbema came in behind Huso with a score of 274 with 11 tens, taking third place in 12th grade girls and fifth place in overall girls and high school girls. Wobbema finished the tournament in 10th place overall.
NR-S 11th graders Mark McDowell and Emma Duda also added their names to the top-ten scorers for the Rockets. McDowell shot a score of 269 with 11 tens, taking second in 11th grade boys, fifth in high school boys and seventh in overall boys. Duda shot a score of 267 with 12 tens, taking second in eleventh grade girls, eighth in high school girls and 10th in overall girls.
The top-ten placings overall are very similar to the 3-D tournament, with mainly Mt. Pleasant and New Rockford-Sheyenne archers. But instead of Wilton in the top-ten, a single Kensal archer took their place. Kose of Mt. Pleasant took third with his score of 283 with 14 tens. The Samuelson girls took fifth and sixth place respectively, with Madison scoring a 281 with 15 tens and McKenna scoring a 277 with 14 tens. Marti Moberg, also of Mt. Pleasant, took eighth place with a score of 274 with 15 tens. Gjovik of Kensal shot a score of 274 with 12 tens to take ninth place overall.
Other local top placers in the bullseye tournament were Braden Kruse, of Carrington, with a score of 271 with 12 tens, taking 15th place; Gavyn Anderson, Carrington, taking 21st place with a score of 265 with 9 tens; Hayden House, Carrington, shooting a score of 264 with eight tens taking 23rd place and Kelsie Neuman in 24th place with a score of 263 with eight tens.
Nine NR-S archers shot their personal bests in Rolla. They are listed here with their new personal bests: Megyn Bjerke, 215; Emma Duda, 267; Sofia Figueroa, 213; Seth Greiner, 205; Angelina Hall, 183; Sawyer Huso, 276; Glenn Skjerva, 236; Kinley Thomas, 169 and Christopher Wiedrich, 211.
At the end of the tournament, archers that were still at the tournament were able to compete in a shoot-out. In the elementary round, Fisher Genre took the win, earning a gift card to Scheels. Layton Jacobson won the middle school round. Macey Wobbema was the last Rockets' archer in the high school round, but lost to a Wilton archer.
Congrats to all the Rocket archers on their achievements thus far.
The Rockets' archers competed in the 2022 N.D. NASP 3-D and Bullseye Tournaments in Minot on March 18-19. This will be covered in the March 28 edition.
