Quaker Hill Rod and Gun Club hosted the tenth annual Constitution State Conference Rifle Tournament on March 5, 2010. Five teams from the Connecticut Technical High School System met to see if the regular season champion, Vinal Tech, of Middletown, could fend off defending tournament champion Grasso Tech of Groton.
The Vinal Tech steamroller showed it had lost none of its momentum during the week that the tournament was delayed due to a snow storm. The Hawks showed no mercy and handily won with a score of 941 revenging last year’s loss one point to the Eagles of Grasso by 39 points.
Wilcox Tech, from Meriden, was third, Ellis tech, of Danielson, was fourth, while Danbury’s Abbott Tech filled the fifth position.
This is the tenth year of Constitution State Conference and Vinal Tech has now claimed four trophies to three from Grasso Tech, two from Wilcox Tech, and one from Ellis Tech.
You can download the complete results here: 2010-ct-cvtc-tournament (Excel, 45KB)
About Hap Rocketto
Hap Rocketto is a Distinguished Rifleman with service and smallbore rifle, member of The Presidents Hundred, and the National Guard’s Chief’s 50. He is a National Smallbore Record holder, a member of the 1600 Club and the Connecticut Shooters’ Hall Of Fame. He was the 2002 Intermediate Senior Three Position National Smallbore Rifle Champion, the 2012 Senior Three Position National Smallbore Rifle Champion a member of the 2007 and 2012 National Four Position Indoor Championship team, coach and captain of the US Drew Cup Team, and adjutant of the United States 2009 Roberts and 2013 Pershing Teams. Rocketto is very active in coaching juniors. He is, along with his brother Steve, a cofounder of the Corporal Digby Hand Schützenverein. A historian of the shooting sports, his work appears in Shooting Sports USA, the late Precision Shooting Magazine, The Outdoor Message, the American Rifleman, the Civilian Marksmanship Program’s website, and most recently, the apogee of his literary career, pronematch.com.
