Stephen Vella claimed the Franz Ciantar Cup, a Trap Mini Grand Prix that was organised on three qualification rounds plus the Final Stages at the Qormi Clay Shooting Club.

Vella was joined on the podium by Nicholas Carabott who finished in the second place overall and by Christopher Farrugia who finished in third place.

After the qualification rounds, the six Finalists in the Bib number order were;

Jason Vella took Bib number 1 with the score of 64/75, Noel Attard, Nicholas Carabott, Stephen Vella and Christopher Farrugia had to go through a four-way shoot-off to decide their positions in the Finals, this finished with the score of 61/75+3, 61/75+2+1, 61/75+2+0 and 61/75+0 respectively. Another shoot-off between the eldest shooter and the youngest one of the competition saw the experience of George Cassar prevail on that of Junior female shooter Mariah Busuttil as it finished with the score of 59/75+2 to 59/75+1 with Cassar going through to the Final Stages and Busuttil being eliminated.

The Finals results were;

1^st Stephen Vella 20/25 + 5/5 + 4/5 + 4/5 + 8/10, total score 41/50

2^nd Nicholas Carabott 18/25 + 3/5 + 3/5 + 5/5 + 9/10, total score 38/50

3^rd Christopher Farrugia 18/25 + 4/5 + 2/5 + 4/5, total score 28/40

4^th Jason Vella 16/25 + 3/5 + 4/5, total score 23/35

5^th Noel Attard 16/25 + 3/5, total score 19/30

6^th George Cassar 15/25, total score 15/25

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

Class A

1^st Jason Vella 64/75

2^nd Noel Attard 61/75 (Countback Rule)

3^rd Stephen Vella 61/75

Class B

1^st Christopher Farrugia 61/75

2^nd Mariah Busuttil 59/75 (Countback Rule)

3^rd George Cassar 59/75

Class C

1^st Carmel Grech 57/75

2^nd Alan Abela 56/75

3^rd George Grech 55/75

The MSSF Trap Programme continues on Sunday 14 July 2019 at the Bidnija Shooting Ranges with Romana Munizzioni Trophy.