Marksmen `Pulled' Together and Raised $89,000 For Special Olympics Texas.Sports Editors/News DeskHOUSTON--(BW SportsWire)--March 27, 2002 During the third annual Conoco Sporting Clays Sporting Clays is a form of clay pigeon shooting. Often described as golf with a shotgun, the sport differs from trap and skeet shooting in that: 1. It is considered by many to be more difficult than trap or skeet. 2. Tournament on March 23, some 470 experienced marksmen -- many who were new to sporting clays -- aimed at 24,000 clay targets to raise funds for Special Olympics Special Olympics International sports program for people with intellectual disability. It provides year-round training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type summer and winter sports for participants. Texas. A total of $89,000 was collected, representing a 68 percent increase over last year's effort. "Top guns" received a custom leather shell pouch emblazed with the tournament logo. Bill Henn of Halliburton KBR KBR Kellogg, Brown and Root KBr Potassium Bromide KBR Key-Based Routing KBR Kota Bharu, Malaysia - Sultan Ismail Petra (Airport Code) KBR Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België / Bibliothèque royale de Belgique was the overall male winner with a score of 59. The overall lady winner T. K. Garrett scored 51. Cole Storey led the youth division scoring 56. Pride International took top team honors with a combined score of 276. March winds were surely to blame for no one taking home the Dodge Ram trucks provided by Lawrence Marshall. A perfect 50 out of 50 targets were needed to compete for the two vehicles. Volunteers and participants received a host of tournament perks such as a specially designed cap and T-shirt, and a bounty of door prizes. Additionally, Pride International cooked up breakfast burritos for the morning shoot crowd, while Xtreme Texas Cookers provided a barbecue lunch with all the fixings. "Special Olympics Texas is thrilled to be a recipient of Houston's generosity," said Lynne Wilcox, Special Olympics Texas regional manager. "The monies raised will be used to support our sports competitions and new athlete leadership programs," said Wilcox. For more information about Special Olympics, or to pre-register for the March 22, 2003 tournament at American Shooting Centers, visit the Conoco Sporting Clays Tournament Web site at www.sotxsportingclays.conoco.com, or call the hotline, 281/293-4499. Fox 26, UPN UPN User Principal Name (Microsoft Windows 2000) UPN United Paramount Network UPN Unión del Pueblo Navarro (Navarrese People Union) UPN Umgekehrte Polnische Notation 20, and 104 KRBE were media partners of the Conoco Sporting Clays Tournament. The tournament was sponsored by Schlumberger, Weatherford, Elite Shooting School, Halliburton, M-I, Pride International, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P., Tesco, Varco, Xtreme Texas Cookers, American Shooting Centers, Environmental Rig Solutions, Halliburton KBR, Marathon, National Oilwell, Parker Drilling Co., RDM RDM Ring Deutscher Makler (German Realty Association) RDM Red Mage (Final Fantasy, gaming) RDM Remote Device Management (protocol used in theatre lighting equipment) Enterprises, Sodexho, Tidewater Marine, Wood Group, Cash Allen and Lawrence Marshall. Conoco (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :COC See chip on chip. ) is a major, integrated energy company active in more than 40 countries. |
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