Friday, August 24, 2018

Team Beretta Shooters Excel at 2018 North Central Regional/American Gran Prix FITASC Championship and 2018 Cardinal Class

(Accokeek, MD)   Team Beretta shooters attained podium honors in 6 different events during two recent regional competitions.

Team Beretta members in attendance at the 2018 North Central Regional competition were Desirae Edmunds, Zachary Kienbaum, Dominic Gross, Jared Greenwood, and Meagan Harrington. Concurrently, our team trap shooter, Jacque Snellenberger, attended the 2018 Cardinal Classic shoot at Cardinal Shooting Center in Marengo, OH.

Edmunds, who shoots with a Beretta DT11 L, achieved two runner-up podium honors in the ladies’ main event and Gran Prix FITASC Lady events with scores of 171/200 and 166/200, respectively.

Edmunds also secured a third-place podium finish in the 5 Stand Lady event with a score of 90 out 100 targets.

Kienbaum accomplished a runner-up podium finish in the Super Sporting event with a score of 93 targets, after winning a shoot-off with third-place finisher Tom Mack.

Gross, a junior team member, achieved a third-place podium finish in the Preliminary Junior event with a score of 93 out of 100 birds.

Greenwood and Harrington battled against some tough competitors and finished in the top ten for each event.

Meanwhile at the Cardinal Classic, Snellenberger topped the podium as the High All Around Lady 1 winner with a score of 384 out of 400, beating her nearest competitor by 2 targets.

The team’s season will continue with the upcoming Southeast Regional Championship at the Forest City Gun Club in Savannah, GA from September 12-16.

 

 

About Team Beretta:

Team Beretta, founded in the early 1980s, is a team of professional shooters of various age and experience that compete as Brand Ambassadors for Beretta USA in the fields of trap, skeet, sporting clay, pistol, 3-gun, and precision long range competitive shooting. Since 1977, Beretta has led the way in all forms of competitive shooting sports and continues to strive for excellence. During the 2016 Olympic Games, Team Beretta shooters took ten out of the possible fifteen podiums in trap, double trap, and skeet shooting events. Team Beretta competes not only at the highest professional levels as well as national and regional competitions, but our shooters also mentor and train future competitors.

Beretta, established in 1526, is the oldest industrial dynasty in the world tracing its roots through 15 generations of continuous family ownership. Firearms bearing the Beretta name have been sold for almost 500 years.  Beretta USA Corp. was founded in 1977 and supplies the standard sidearm to the U.S. Armed Forces. Today, Beretta manufactures, distributes, and markets a complete line of firearms, accessories, and apparel. Beretta also owns and operates six retail Beretta Gallery stores worldwide. For additional information, visitwww.Beretta.com.

USA Contact:         

 Kimberlee Eveland

 KEveland@BerettaUSA.com

301-283-2191 ext. 1384