Rennie Deguara won the Franz Ciantar Trap Mini Grand Prix at the Qormi Clay Shooting Club, an event that was organised on three qualification rounds of twenty five clay targets each plus Finals.

Christopher Vella joined Deguara on the podium as he finished in second place overall while James Galea Jr. also made the podium in third place.

This weekend's Final was dominated by shooters from Class B, as the only two shooters to come from a different class were James Galea Jr. and George Mifsud who compete in class A.

The six Finalists in the Bib number order according to their qualification scores were;

John Marmara 70/75, Rennie Deguara 67/75, James Galea Jr. 64/75+2 and Christopher Vella 64/75+1 were the first four Athletes who made it through, while Stephen Aquilina, George Mifsud and Chris Farrugia had to go for a three-way shoot-off to fill in positions number five and six. Farrugia was eliminated after the fifth target while Mifsud and Aquilina finished with the scores of 63/75+8 and 63/75+7.

This weekend's official overall results were:

1^st Rennie Deguara 23/25 + 5/5 + 3/5 + 3/5 + 9/10, total score 43/50

2^nd Christopher Vella 22/25 + 4/5 + 3/5 + 4/5 + 7/10, total score 40/50

3^rd James Galea Jr. 20/25 + 5/5 + 3/5 + 3/5, total score 31/40

4^th George Mifsud 20/25 + 4/5 + 1/5, total score 25/35

5^th John Marmara 19/25 + 2/5, total score 21/30

6^th Stephen Aquilina 15/25, total score 15/25

The top Shooters in their respective classes concluded their three qualification rounds with the following scores;

Class A

1^st James Galea Jr. 64/75

2^nd George Mifsud 63/75 (Count Back Rule)

3^rd Chris Farrugia 63/75

 

Class B

1^st John Marmara 70/75

2^nd Rennie Deguara 67/75

3^rd Christopher Vella 64/75

 

Class C

1^st George Grech 58/75

2^nd Nico Sciberras 53/75

3^rd Joe Cardona 51/75

 

The MSSF Trap Programme will continue on Sunday 30 September 2018 at the Bidnija Shooting Ranges with the Marfel Trophy.