ANNAPOLIS, Md. – The Navy rifle team (5-3) finished second overall during the President's Trophy Match on Saturday with a total of 5,849 points, marking its second-highest score in the competition in program history. Additionally, the Midshipmen shot an NCAA four-count score of 4,689 points.
 
"We had a great performance today even though our total team score may not completely show it," head coach Mike Anti stated. "A few of our athletes overcame some challenges with equipment and unforeseen rifle failures. In every case our athletes dealt with the situation and were able to post very good scores. Parker Haydin's rifle had an unrepairable malfunction in the beginning of his event and was forced to use a teammate's rifle to shoot the match. Despite this setback, he was still able to post the highest score of the competition. It was simply an amazing performance. Mark Dely, a junior, also had a great performance posting his career high in smallbore. It was a very close match between us and Air Force. In fact, we had them by two points after smallbore. We were a bit below our average in air rifle and Air Force had solid performances in that event to take the win."
 
Scoring for the overall President's Trophy Match features eight starters at most for each team in smallbore and air rifle with the top five scores counting toward each team's final score. The NCAA scoring of starting five shooters in each event with the top four scores counting will still be used for NCAA qualification purposes.
 
Air Force (5-5) won its ninth-straight President's Trophy Match after edging the Mids by a narrow margin of 19 points at 5,868 points while Army (1-6) finished third with a score of 5,785. Coast Guard also tallied a 5,328-point mark from its competitors.
 
Navy tallied 4,689 points according to the NCAA scoring, while Air Force finished with 4,701. Army was third with 4,636 and Coast Guard closed out the scoring with 4,349 points.
 
Parker Haydin (Joshua, Texas) paced Navy with a total score of 1,177, finishing first overall in the smallbore with a score of 584. He added 593 points in the air rifle for his aggregate score of 1,177 to lead all Midshipmen.
 
Marleigh Duncan (Wake Forest, N.C.) finished third in the smallbore with a score of 584. The sophomore posted a score of 589 in air rifle to notch an aggregate score of 1,173.
 
Clarissa Layland (Granbury, Texas) shot a 1,172-point overall mark, highlighted by a 593-point score in air rifle while Joshua Potts (Ephrata, Pa.) finished with an overall score of 1,162 points on a score of 575 in smallbore and a 587-point mark in in air rifle.
 
Stephanie Milvain (Matthews, N.C.) and Mark Dely (Fort Wayne, Ind.) posted aggregate scores of 1,158 and 1,155. Milvain posted scores of 580 in smallbore and 578 in air rifle, while M. Dely registered scores of 579 in smallbore and 576 in air rifle.
 
Rounding out the Midshipmen participants in the President's Trophy Match were Deonte Hayes (Fort Mills, S.C.), Mason MacKenzie (Henderson, Md.), Catherine Dely (Fort Wayne, Ind.), Devin Uhrich (Camp Hill, Pa.), and Isabelle Zantow (St. Simons Island, Ga.). Hayes tallied 1,146 total points, while MacKenzie posted an aggregate score of 1,139. C. Dely (1,138), Uhrich (1,134), Zantow (1,122), and Shepard (1,113) rounded out the navy shooters.
 
Navy continues the season with a pair of matches next weekend in Charleston, S.C. The Midshipmen square off against GARC opponent NC State on Saturday, Nov. 12 at the Inouye Marksmanship Center on the campus of the Citadel. The Mids close out the weekend with a match against the Citadel on Sunday at the Inouye Marksmanship Center. Both matches are slated to start at 9:00 a.m.