Lafayette Gun Club defeats Marion AJROTC
Shooting their highest score of the season Lafayette Gun Club defeated Marion AJROTC 2415.4 to 2321.5 in the 2024 National Precision Air Rifle League. Their second win in a row. Lafayette Gun Club was led by Christina Morris who shot a 608.9. The remaining contributing members were Anahad Kohli, Evan Williams, and Kai Labine. They are from Grafton, VA, and are coached by Jason Stout.
Lafayette Gun Club is competing in the Champions Division where they are currently ranked in fourth place. Within the Junior Rifle Club Conference they are in third place. They have a 2 - 0 record.
Shooting their highest team score of the season Marion AJROTC was led by Andersson Guevara who shot a 583.6. The remaining contributing members were Alexa Ortiz, Nicholas Purdy, and Gwynneth Hamilton. Marion AJROTC is from Marion, IN, and is coached by Gary Blagburn.
Overall Marion AJROTC is ranked twenty-ninth. They have a 0 - 3 record.
Next up Lafayette Gun Club will compete against Sutter Union High School from Sutter, CA. Sutter Union High School currently has a 0 - 2 record. While Marion AJROTC has a bye week.
The league is a national team league for high school teams and junior rifle clubs. The league has two parts. An 8 week regular season going on now, followed by the post-season.
The Champions Division is reserved for the top teams in the country. The top eight teams from the Champions Division regular season will compete in a single elimination tournament for the league championships.
In each game the teams compete in what is known as a Standing Air Rifle match. The match is nearly identical to the air rifle events in the Olympic Games. Each athlete shoots 60 shots in the standing position, the most difficult position in rifle competitions. Scored in decimal, each shot is worth a maximum of 10.9 points. The sum of points scored in the 60 shots is the athlete's total. The team score is comprised of the best four athletes from each team.
The National Air Rifle League is sponsored by Scopos. Scopos is the makers of the Orion Scoring System, the Athena Electronic Scoring Target System, and Rezults, the worlds first mobile friendly result website for shooting. Scopos is located in Manassas, VA.
Weekly league recaps are available at https://www.scopos.tech/news/category/national-leagues.
Complete league standings are available at https://rezults.scopos.tech/league/1.1.2024072509092300.3/
Box Score: http://www.orionresults.com/team/GamePage.aspx?MatchID=1.1.2024100716182994.1
Lafayette Gun Club team page: http://www.orionresults.com/team/LeagueTeam.aspx?TeamID=2516
Marion AJROTC team page: http://www.orionresults.com/team/LeagueTeam.aspx?TeamID=2511
14 - 20 Oct 2024