 Al Bemidji's trap team Lumberjack Invitational brought students together from across northern Minnesota to shoot for their highest scores. For this week's Golden Apple reporter Mel Meyer looked as the home team shot ahead of its competition. Students from Bemidji Middle and High School braved the bitter conditions to bring home the goal. We won our conference a couple times and finished second place in conference so we're successful. Over 250 girls and boys from over a dozen areas of schools competed in the Invitational. The Lumberjacks were hoping to get a home field advantage to make a mark in the different divisions. We have a varsity division, a junior varsity division and a novice division. There's a first place, second place and third place in each one of the three divisions and then there's a high gun honor for the ladies and a high gun honor for the men's. Competing in the novice division was Taylor Kehoe. He was pretty nervous to be shooting but was able to pull off some pretty impressive scores. I got 19 out of 25 and 21 out of 25. Tristan Secor enjoys grouse hunting with his family and wanted to join the club to improve his skills. He's been working with the coaches on how to stand right and to lean forward and stuff. Your position is stance when you shoot. Logan Sheets has been with the team for two years now. He says the coaches helped drive the group forward. They put in a lot of work in helping all the kids and all the upcoming kids into our team. Everyone's doing really good. The club sport has been going strong for four years and Kaia Martinson has been with it every step of the way. She says it's grown in size and in caliber. Back then it was just simple like all you have to do is like here here here and now like now that you're better and stuff all you need to do this and this and this and this at the same time. All the hard work paid off as the sharpshooters finished in second place in all categories but they'll have plenty of time to keep practicing as school lets out and summer begins. With this week's Golden Apple in Bemidji, I'm Mal Meyer, Lakeland News.