Prepping for next month’s state competition, the Washington High School, Middle School, and Lincoln Elementary School’s archery teams returned to competition this past weekend at the Springville tournament. This was the first competition for the teams since competing the Cardinal of Eldon tournament on Jan. 24.

For the Washington High School team, they finished the event in fifth place with a team score of 3201. Sophomore John Sands had the best shoot of any Demon archer this past weekend, scoring a 286 out of a possible 300 points. The performance was the ninth best in the entire boys field of 279 participants. Sophomore Grace-Shafer Smith has the girls’ high of the day, finishing with a score of 281. Junior Alex Sinn ended the competition right behind Shafer-Smith, finishing with a score of 278. The scores were the seventh and eighth best scores respectively in the entire 211 person girls field.

The Washington Middle School team finished in third place out of six teams with a total score of 3071. Sixth grader Hunter Rarick had the high score for the middle school archers, finishing the meet with a score of 271, the 11th best finish in the middle school competition.

Finally, Lincoln Elementary ended the day in second place among elementary schools competing, ending the day with a team score of 2884. Lane Frana finished as the top archer from Lincoln Elementary, ending the day with a score of 258, the seventh best elementary school finish out of 89 competitors.

Washington’s archery teams return to competition next Saturday (2/21) as they host another tournament at Washington High School.