Fulton County Ohio Media

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This past Saturday inside Spangler Arena at the Fulton County Fair Grounds, the Delta Archery Club (DAC) hosted an archery tournament with more than two dozen school districts represented from the tri-state area of Indiana, Michigan and Ohio and hundreds of archers competing at the elementary, middle school and high school level.  Typically, the DAC holds their tournaments at one of the Pike-Delta-York school gymnasiums.  This year they chose a much larger venue so they could accommodate the hundreds of participants as well as providing adequate seating for this very popular event.

During the competition, two archers each take aim at one of 56 bullseye targets totaling approximately 112 firing their arrows at the same time.  “We get six scoring rounds in the tournament with one practice round from 10 meters and one practice round at 15 meters,” said April Brown, the club’s media director.   “In each round the top score you can get is 50, therefore 300 for the tournament. 

Similar to bowling, the perfect score of 300 is very difficult to achieve.  “I don’t think in regular tournaments we’ve ever gotten a 300 yet, but at state tournaments and nationals we’ve seen a few 300s from other kids,” said Ms. Brown.   

Indiana Schools:  Churbusco, Columbia City, Indian Springs, South Whitley, Southern Wells, Whitko

Michigan Schools:  Clifford H. Smart, Grand Ledge Hayes, Walles Lake, Northern

Ohio Schools:  Archbold, Ayersville, Fairview, Fayette, Hicksville, Holgate, Holy trinity Catholic, Liberty Center, Mill Creek, Montpelier, Patrick Henry, Pettisville, Pike-Delta-York, Stryker, Tinora, Wauseon, West Unity

Click on the link above to access photos from the tournament. Team and individual finish places are included in the photos. Photos are in the jpeg format to allow for editing and an be downloaded for NO CHARGE courtesy of the fultoncountymedia.com website.