Day One 10m Air Rifle JORC Women’s Results
A baker’s dozen of New England ladies, representing every state in the six state region, competed in the first day 2016 Junior Olympic Rifle Championships at the Olympic Training Center at Colorado Springs.
After shooting four strings of ten shots each on Megalink electronic targets, with decimal scoring, Mackenzie Martin, at Murray State via Fairhaven, Massachusetts, finished in seventh place with a 411.8 positioning herself for a place in the finals.
Rhode Island’s Rebecca Green, from the Newport Rifle Club and U of Akron, placed 30th shooting a 407.9 as her college team mate from Vermont Julia Hatch slid into 71st with a 401.2.
There was a bit of a traffic jam at 60th and 61st place with Ruby Gomes of the Ocean State and Elizabeth Dutton from Derry, New Hampshire separated by a razor thin margin at 402.5 and 402.4 respectively.
Bailey Urbach, a freshman at The Ohio State from New Hampshire, pulled into 75th place on the basis of her 400.5.
Fairhaven, Massachusetts was represented by Abby Monique, who has signed a letter of intent with University of Texas El Paso, who was one of 15 397 shot but hers was a 397.5 giving her 108th just three places ahead of Connecticut’s Kaitlyn Kutz whose 397.1 saw her sitting in 111th place.
Sarah Schnupp, the sole representative of Maine, was 118th having a score of 396.0.
A tenth of a point was the difference between a pair of Bay State residents, Mackenzie Conant, a 394.1 for 141st, and Aliya Butt who posted a 394.0 to put her in 142nd.
The last of the massive six shooter Massachusetts delegation were Nicole Mitton, 147th with a 3923.4 and Savannah “Zu Zu” Demetrius who carded an even 376.0 for 193rd.
The ladies will shoot 40 more shots tomorrow, wrap up the 2016 JORC with the air rifle final, and then pack and head home.
