RJ’s Report: USA Shooting Nationals, Day 1
By Rick Johnson
Rick Johnson is at the USA Shooting Nationals at Ft Benning GA in his capacity as MA State Jr Team coach and will be providing his perspective on the events as they unfold.
The women’s prone events were held today with two 60 shot matches fired. The first relay was an early 8am start while the second relay was a very warm 1:30 start. The conditions for the first relay was very calm winds but the scores did not reflect that. The high score fired by Amy Sowash was “only” a 592. Five other competitors fired a 590. New England shooters were Jess Levine with a 581, Kim Coffey with at 574, Sarah Maclagan with a 571 and Rena Goodwin shot a 563. Everyone was hopeful for better scores and performances on the second relay.
Relay 2 started with some fine Georgia heat and humidity. To combat this heat, between relays Kim Coffey decided to test the “prone belly” theory and went to Denny’s for a Grand Slam breakfast. It seemed to help Kim as she brought her score up 9 points to finish with at 583 to finish in 28th place overall. Jess Levine fired a 573, Rena Goodwin fired a 561 and Sarah MacLagan a 556. The women will compete in the 3×20 over the next 2 days. The men start their air matches tomorrow.
After both stages of prone Abigal Fong came out on top with an 1182, followed by Kelly Dove with an 1180 in second, and Michelle Bohren in third with an 1179.
Rick Johnson Jr is the MA Junior State Team coach, competitive smallbore shooter, and contributor to pronematch.com
Rick,
Kim Chrostowski is from Rhode Island while Josie Burzynski. Libby Tallberg, and Claudia Duksa are from Connecticut. While these states rest on the shore of Long Island Sound they are still considerd to be New England states by geographers.
I can understand the confusion from a personal view as I was born in Brooklyn, New York, grew up in Connecticut, and have lived in Rhode Island for the past 30 years.
Kim (1162) was 18th, Claudia (1161) was 23rd and third E, Josie (1150) 36th-one place better than her start number of 37,and Libby (1128) 51st.
Keep up the good work and the reports coming.
Hap