May 27, 2025
The Comet Athletic Club is sponsoring its 19th annual Sportsmen’s Raffle to raise academic scholarships for the student athletes of Mayville State University. A total of 50 guns will be raffled at an event planned for Saturday evening, Sept. 13, 2025. Ticket holders will have a one-in-ten chance of winning a gun and need not be present to win. Raffle tickets are on sale now for $100 each.
The $100 ticket buys a chance to win a gun and admission to the raffle event that will be held at the Mayville State Campus Center Luckasen Room on Sept. 13. Doors for the raffle event open at 5 p.m. Food will be served and a cash bar will be available. The 50-gun giveaway will begin at 7 p.m.
Raffle tickets for the 50-gun giveaway are available at the MSU Foundation office, from Comet Athletic Club board members, and at the following area businesses: Top Hat Lounge - Mayville, Hardware Hank - Mayville, H.E. Everson - Mayville, Floyd's Bar - Portland, and RDK Enterprises - Hillsboro. Tickets may also be purchased from Comet Athletic Club board members Mike Carr, Lon Jorgensen, Brian Halvorson, and Brian Aune.
Earlier in the day on Sept. 13, from 1 to 4 p.m., there will be a football watch party held in the MSU Campus Center Luckasen Room. All are invited to watch the Mayville State Comets play at Nebraska Wesleyan University.
For more information on the Sportsmen’s Raffle, including a listing of the guns to be raffled, go to www.mayvillestate.edu/sportsmensraffle. Questions may be addressed to the MSU Foundation, stacy.buchl@mayvillestate.edu or 701-788-4864.