HILLTOP TAYTAY, Rizal — Former national skeet shooter and Kuwait national team coach Jun Vergara of Team Pampanga’s Best shot 162 clay birds to win the just-concluded three-day 1st Philippine National Compak Sporting Clays Championship at the Team Goma shooting range here.
Vergara beat Darius Hizon, Nonoy Bernardo, actor/tv host and Southeast Asian Games fencing gold medalist Richard Gomez and Gabby Tong in Sunday’s finals of the 150-clay bird shootfest.
Hizon finished with 158, Bernardo carded 155, Gomez had 154 and Tong scored 151.
With his win, Vergara was proclaimed the first "national champion’’ of the country’s biggest shotgun competition so far.
Hizon topped the Class A competition, while Atlanta Olympian George Earnshaw and Carlo Garcia ruled classes B and C, respectively.
Gomez, president of the organizing Sporting Clays Association of the Philippines, emerged 20-gauge class champion, Irine Garcia topped the ladies’ division and Nestor de Castro bagged the veter an’s class crown.
SCAP chair Mayor Joric Gacula said the event supported by Bench, Human, GMA-7, Rustan’s Essences, Swatch, Rudy Project, C2 Iced Tea, The Spa, Caterpillar Shoes, Leonardo Bags, Mainland Cheese, Krispy Krepe, Mobile 1, Ipod, Chikka.com and Bidshot was a big success in terms of participation and attendance.
For his part, Gomez said: "It is our vision to make clay shooting popular, to hold regular competition and to entice young and old alike to become world-class shooters. Here, Filipinos can truly excel because the sport does not demand height nor remarkable physical strength.’’
The next SCAP competition will be held on December 9-10. For inquiries, contact 723-8896/ 0919-747142 or e-mail scap@pldtdsl.net.
