Northgate AFJROTC Narrowly Defeats Xavier AJROTC
Northgate AFJROTC edged out Xavier AJROTC 903.5 to 898.3 in the 2024 National Sporter Air Rifle League. Northgate AFJROTC was led by Yaretsi Fonseca who shot a 238.7. The remaining contributing members were Laina Thongs, Johnathan Odom, and Ava Weil. They are from Newnan, GA, and are coached by Patrick Kelley.
Northgate AFJROTC is competing in the Distinguished Division where they finish the regular season in fifty-fourth place. Within the Air Force Jrotc Conference they finish in seventh place. They finished the regular season with a 2 - 5 record.
Shooting their highest team score of the season Xavier AJROTC was led by Nicholas Borruso who shot a 249.8. The remaining contributing members were Alejandro Ponce, Michael Marin, and Jay Gress. Xavier AJROTC is from New York, NY, and is coached by Clayton Dickinson III.
Overall Xavier AJROTC finishes the regular season one hundred and third. They finished the regular season with a 2 - 5 record.
This completes both teams play in the 2024 National Air Rifle League.
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 Three-Position Air Rifle match. The match is modeled after Olympic Rifle competitions but adapted to high school age athletes. Each athlete will shoot 10 shots in three different shooting positions, kneeling, prone, and standing. Scored in decimal, each shot is worth a maximum of 10.9 points. The sum of points scored in the 30 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/1.1.2024072508570849.3/
Box Score: http://www.orionresults.com/team/GamePage.aspx?MatchID=1.1.2024111213325616.1
Northgate AFJROTC team page: http://www.orionresults.com/team/LeagueTeam.aspx?TeamID=2496
Xavier AJROTC team page: http://www.orionresults.com/team/LeagueTeam.aspx?TeamID=2572
18 - 24 Nov 2024