The 2014 Pennsylvania State Conventional Prone Championship
submitted by Dean Trew
Stephen Angeli with the Oster Trophy (Metallic Sight Aggregate) and the George Handel Trophy (State Champion)
The Dormont-Mt. Lebanon Sportsmen’s Club hosted more than two dozen Key Stone shooters at the 2014 Pennsylvania State Conventional Prone Championship held on August 9-10.
Junior shooter William Dixon won the 50 Yard Metallic Sight Match with 400-38, but intermediate senior Steve Angeli jumped out early, placing second in the 50 Yard Metallic Sight Match with 400-36X, and then winning the Meter Match, 400-33X, Dewar Match, 400-34X, and 100 Yards, 400-30X, to take the metallic sight aggregate with a 1600-133X, winning the Roy Oster Trophy.
Juniors placed second, third and fourth in the metallic sight aggregate; Expert Tony Jackson 1597-115X, Dixon 1594-123X, while Pittsburgh and Suburban Rifle League competitor Matthew Lovre fired a 1594-92X. Bill Burkert took the senior aggregate with a 1592-120X, out Xing Bob Gibilisco by six. Local Mt. Lebanon High School prone shooter Kaelyn Chick was high lady irons with 1573-73X., just ahead of brother John Chick, 1572-73X, which must have made for some interesting conversation in the car on the ride home
Angeli started out the any sights day with a full head of steam, winning his fourth-straight match with a clean, this time a 400-39X at 50 Yards. He beat out defending state champ Bob Okeson who creedmoored Dixon’s 400-38X with 50-5X on his final bull to Dixon’s 50-4X on bull eight. It would be Angeli’s last look at perfection as he would dropp one point in each of his last three matches, firing identical scores of 399-35X.
Burkert took the 50 Meter Match with 400-35X; Gibilisco won the Dewar any with 400-33X, and Okeson bested all at the 100 yard line with 400-32X.
Okeson was the best in the any sight aggregate with 1599-127X. Gibilisco was second and high senior, winning the Herman Obrecht/Roy Oster trophy with 1598-130X. Erin Gestl was third with 1598-125X, and Angeli was high Master with 1597-144-X. William Dixon was high junior posting 1596-124X, and junior Nicholle Benedict, another local product, was high any, shooting irons, with 1578-83X. She will be off to Texas Christian University in the fall to shoot for Karen Monez’s Horned Frogs.
Angeli hung on to become the Pennsylvania State Conventional Prone Champion, winning the George Handel Trophy, with 3197-277X. Junior Tony Jackson was second overall and Junior Champion with 3193-223X, taking the J. Kenneth Johnson Trophy. Defending state champ Okeson was third overall, carding a 3191-232X. Gibilisco was the senior champion with 3190-244X, just one X and one point ahead of senior Burkert, 3189-243X. Benedict’s 3146-158x gave her the Women’s Champion title and the Driftwood Trophy.
Blessed with great weather, Match Director Dean Trew was assisted by Chief Range Officer Amy Smith and Chief Statistical Officer John Funk.
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