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“ I got it first try,” Baker interjects.
“ That’ s( a lie),” Keithley says.“ You did not get it first try. Oh, wait, no, you got it first try. Then you couldn’ t hit it again.”
Baker and Keithley are good friends. They say it was a bittersweet season, knowing it was their last.
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Their coach, 25-year-old Clay Popp, whose job is to teach kids to pop clay, agrees.
“ They’ re great kids,” says Popp, who’ s losing five seniors this year.“ They show up on time and they’ re good boys. They’ re going to do well.”
Baker is headed to Purdue University to study mechanical
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sciences while Keithley is bound for Prosser Career Education Center in New Albany to learn the HVAC trade.
Keithley says he’ ll go visit Baker and shoot trap in West Lafayette. In the meantime, he says, he’ ll keep taking trips to Indian Creek Shooting Center.
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“ I’ ll have to go out to Georgetown with somebody else,” Keithley says.
Meanwhile, Popp will need to find new candidates to take up arms.
Some students come in without any shooting skills. Some have never held a gun. It’ s not easy to teach from scratch, Popp says.
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