The first phase of the Junior Olympic Rifle Championships are in the books with the conclusion of the Men’s Air Rifle Championship (JORC) on April 10th.
Today’s results were much like the Boston Red Sox’s closing game in the Toronto series played the same day. Much positive to be taken away but still, not the results one hoped for going into the match. Scoring at the national JORC is decimal unlike the integer scoring in the state matches and it takes a solid 610 or more over two days to get into the finals. The closest any New England shooter came was with Connecticut’s Eric Sloan, 603.4, Massachusetts Matt Ricky Miller, 603.2, and Matt Lazarski, 602.1, and New Hampshire’s Andy Solomonides, 600.3 all shot on the first day. Alex Muzzioli, who is bound for the Naval Academy, had a 601.1 on day two
After 120 shots standing over the two days, on the very difficult air rifle target, the shooters from the six state region ranked Sloan, 46-1200.8; Solomonides, 52-1198.7; Jared Desrosiers, 61-1196.8; Muzzioli, 64-1196.2; Lazarski, 69-1194; Miller,75-1192.3; Brandon Bryer, 80-1189.8; Tobin Sanctuary, 90-1183.7; Scott Condo, 98-1181.9; Matt Pemberton, 107-1179.3; James Henderson, 111-1178.1; Marcus Mojica, 114-1177.9; Tyler Glynn, 135-1173.2; Nathan Cai, 142-1171.4.
There was a veritable traffic jam between positions 145 through 148 with Kyle Kutz, 1170.2, Benjamin Pacek, 1169.8, Tyler Lefebvre, 1169.8, and Brendan Seitz filling those positions respectively. Kristoffer Blaney rounded out the regional representatives in 169th place with an 1152.8.
Sloan, Desrrosiers, and Kutz will be staying on the smallbore events while the rest pack up and head back home to face the end of the school year and the opening of the outdoor season.
