COBLESKILL - Otselic Valley graduate Charles “Chuck” Bishop received an early Christmas present at SUNY Cobleskill’s Department of Sport & Exercise's Buckets-for-Books Shootout, Saturday, Dec. 8.

The freshman Agricultural Engineering major won free textbooks during halftime of the Fighting Tigers’ women’s game against Keuka College.

The object of the shootout competition was for a randomly selected Cobleskill student to shoot and make a layup, a free throw, a three-point shot, and a halfcourt shot in one minute in order to claim the prize of free textbooks for the upcoming spring semester.