Bellmore-Merrick Rifle Team Hits Bulls-Eye On Nassau Championship

BELLMORE, NY — Celebration for the Bellmore-Merrick rifle squad. They clinched the Nassau County championship last week.

It's the highest level of competition for the team as eight other teams from Nassau participated for the title.

"Concentration and focus, both mental and physical, are required to hit a dot the sizeof a period from 10 meters," Coach Philip Schratwieser said.

The squad is made up of 14 students from across the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District schools.

"I have been coaching some of these kids for four years and will miss them as theymove onto the next phase of their lives," Schratwieser said, who served 12 years in the military as a Squad Designated Marksman. "I am so very proud of them, their hard work and the recognition they bring to the sport and to themselves as a result."