Digicel Cup a huge success
The inaugural staging of the Digicel Cup was a huge success with parents, families, friends and members of the Jamaica Skeet Club coming out to support the top junior shotgun shooters in Jamaica representing their schools at the club grounds in Portmore.
Hillel Academy topped the school’s section with a total of 230 points, ahead of AISK, who finished second with 90 points.
Campion College and Manchester High School shared third place with 30 points each. The 50- target course was set with a combination of eight hard, medium and easier stations, which challenged the kids’ technical and mental toughness from the seven categories: Junior A and B, SubJunior A and B, Beginners Boys ( 25 targets), Beginners Girls( 25 targets), and Girls’ Class.
With the event set up in the same format as the World Championships and the Olympics, the competitors with the top six scores entered the Super- Six Shoot Off where they shot an additional 18 targets, set at a more difficult level. They were added to the main event score to determine the Overall Champion and Runner Ups.
Brandon Reid, 45, Hugh Jones 45, Peter Mahfood, ( 13 years old and a sub junior) 44, Nicholas Chen, 43, Andrew Azan, 43, Reuben Mair, 41, Shaun White, 41 and Isaac Mair, 41 all qualified for the Shoot Off.
Brandon Reid shot an amazing 18/ 18 to capture the champion’s prize with Nicholas Chen as first runner- up and Hugh Jones as second runner- up.