Chickasha’s second-year archery program held their first-ever tournament Saturday, hosting over 300 youngsters from ten schools and winning both the elementary and the junior high divisions.

The program expanded into the middle school ranks this year and the middle school Chicks finished with 3,164 points, beating Shawnee, which placed second with 3,008, and Chandler, which took third with 1,943.

Kaydee King won the girls’ division with 274 points and the Chickasha boys claimed the top three spots, led by Brydon Edmonds with 285 points.

Shawnee’s Cierra Middlebrook (268) edged out teammate Jamee Seckle by one point for runner-up on the girls’ side but Clayton Mosley (268) and Kale Nye (272) made it a CMS sweep for the guys.

The Chickasha elementary team scored 3,164 points to win their division, beating Broken Arrow Parklane, which was runner-up with 2,741 points, and Comanche, which finished with 1,809 for third place.

The young Chicks swept the top three spots in both the girls’ and boys’ divisions. Meredith Noland won the girls’ side with a 273 and Haylie Douglas and Ambria Noman tied for second with 268 each. Brook Bush won the boys’ side with a 278, Dustin Spencer took second with 268 and Conrad Carlile was third, one point back at 267.

Although Chickasha doesn’t have a high school program yet, they still had a high school division, won by Chandler with 3,168 points. Indiahoma took second with 2,385 and Canton was third at 1,024. Chandler swept the top three spots on each side with Rachel Wilson and Will Gibson leading the way.

The Chicks will get back to practicing this week as they prepare for the Chandler tournament in mid-March.

The Archery in the Schools Program State Championships will be held in Oklahoma City on March 30 and 31. Last year, the first-year Chickasha program finished second out of 41 teams at state and qualified for the national tournament at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, where they placed seventh overall.

Noland, a fourth-grader last year, competed against fifth and sixth graders and was the top fourth-grade finisher in the nation, placing fourth overall just five points out of first.