Pellet Air Rifle Competition 2012
U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. – Feb. 16, 2012: In the smallbore and air rifle match against TCU, the Air Force Academy rifle team closed out the regular season with their highest team score of the year. The Falcons lost the match 4644-4701. In the match, Air Force finished with a smallbore score of 2305 and in air rifle scored 2339 points. The 4644 is a school record since Launi Meili has been head coach.
For Indian shooting, it’s the end of an era
Almost unnoticed, an era has slipped away. The Indian shooting squad for the Olympics was announced yesterday and it didn’t have a single woman shooter in the women’s 10m air rifle category.
The reason I am drawing your attention to this particular event is simply because for India’s current generation of shooters, the 10m air rifle event was where it all started.
Who can forget the heroics of the Anjali Vedpathak (now Anjali Vedpathak-Bhagwat) during the Sydney Olympics where she became the first Indian shooter to make it to the final of a shooting event. She eventually finished 8th in the event but her performance showed that India could compete at the highest level.
Rifle: WVU Defeats VMI
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The No.3-ranked West Virginia University rifle team defeated VMI’s men’s and women’s teams in today’s NCAA qualifying match at the WVU Rifle Range.
Amy Bock
The Mountaineers (4678) outshot their opponents’ women’s (4326) and men’s (4413) teams overall and in both guns. The air rifle competition saw the Mountaineers shoot 2360, the Keydet women’s team finish with a score of 2185 and the men’s team finish with 2220. WVU finished smallbore at 2318, while the Keydet women shot 2141 and the men shot 2193.
“It was a solid result for our last home match. It definitely was not our best performance but right around our average,” explains coach Jon Hammond. “Taylor (Ciotola) had a really good day, and the rest did well too.”
Mountaineer seniors Michael Kulbacki and Justin Pentz, junior Petra Zublasing and freshmen Amy Bock and Ciotola contributed their talent to today’s score.
Balanced Air Rifle Outing Leads Rifle in Qualifying Round
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Led by a balanced effort in air rifle, including team-high scores fromHeather Greathouse and Stacy Wheatley, the Kentucky rifle team posted a 4657 total team score in the NCAA Qualifying competition, held Saturday at UK’s Barker Hall.
Kentucky (11-1) will return to action at the Great American Rifle Conference Championships, hosted by Ole Miss in Oxford, Miss., at the Patricia C. Lamar Army National Guard Readiness Center Feb. 25-26.
UK was led in air rifle by Wheatley and Greathouse, with the duo each charting a 590. Henri Junghanel (587), Emily Holsopple (589) and Ethan Settlemires (587) rounded out the UK starting lineup in air gun.
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