Brayden Castonguay of Washburn and Faith Sjoberg of Presque Isle have both advanced to the Elks Hoop Shoot state finals, to be held in Bath Jan. 29, 2017.The two, representing Presque Isle Lodge 1954, won the 12-13 age division at the Northern Districts of the Maine Elks Association. That competition was held Jan. 15 at the James F. Doughty School in Bangor.
Castonguay connected on 20 of his 25 attempts to claim first in his boys’ age category. Sjoberg made 23 of 25 to tie her for first before converting all five of her shoot-off shots to move on in the girls’ category.
Also representing the local lodge and coming away with a title was Wesley Lapointe of Caribou in the 10-11 age division.
The other local youth captured runner-up honors: Ainsley Caron of Washburn in the girls’ 8-9 division, Raiden Cochran of Easton in the boys’ 8-9 division and Olivia Locke of Mapleton in the girls’ 10-11 division.
At the upcoming state event, district winners will compete against other winners from the Maine Elks’ Central and Coastal districts for the right to compete in the New Englands in March.
“In all, our six young competitors from the Presque Isle Elks Lodge Hoop Shoot came home with three first-place trophies and three second-place awards,” said local Hoop Shoot director William Sewall. “Absolutely outstanding.”
All six local shooters had advanced at the school/recreation level in December 2016 and then at the lodge level, which took place Jan. 8 in Presque Isle.
