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.
Well, due to an important business meeting last night with some of the management team at pronematch.com I was not able to get my daily report in. So here it is a day late.
The women’s 3×20 matches concluded on Tuesday with Jamie Beyerle ( 1152+97.8 ) earning the top spot on the podium for the second year in a row. Sarah Scherer ( 1148 + 97.2 ) ended up 5th overall and 1st in the A class. Rena Goodwin ( 1111 ) placed 3rd in her class and Kim Coffey ( 1107 ) narrowly missed a 3rd place finish by 2 points in her class.
The mens air rifle matches finished with West Virginia U. shooter Bryant Wallizer earning the victory by firing a 1184 2-day total. Stephen Scherer easily won the junior title with a 1175. Interestingly, the junior finals were conducted first with Stephen winning then the overall finals were conducted. Stephen shot his second finals in about an hour. He placed 8th overall in the match. I’m not sure why they didn’t run a combined final.
Next is the men’s 3×40 matches and women’s air rifle.
Rick Johnson Jr is the MA Junior State Team coach, competitive smallbore shooter, and contributor to pronematch.com
