COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The No. 13 Navy rifle team (6-4) tallied a new school record 5860 points to finish second against its service academy counterparts on Saturday at the President's Trophy Match at the Cadet Rifle Range at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. Additionally, the Midshipmen shot an NCAA four-count score of 4695 points.
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.
No. 6 Air Force (5-0), who hosted the match, won its 11th-straight President's Trophy Match after posting a collective score of 5890 points, finishing ahead of Navy (5860). No. 9 Army (2-3) was third with 5823, while Coast Guard rounded out the team scores with 4719.
Navy tallied 4695 points according to the NCAA scoring, while Air Force finished with 4721 and Army was third with 4674.
Isabella Baldwin finished first overall among all shooters. The sophomore shot a season-high 588 in smallbore to finish second overall in the event on the day. Baldwin tied her career-high with a score of 598 in air rifle to tie for first-place in the event. She placed third in the event officially, based off of centers hit in the event. Baldwin's aggregate score of 1186 was the tops of the day by four points and set a new career-best for the sophomore.
Marleigh Duncan and
Parker Haydin were second and third among Navy shooters on Saturday. Duncan posted an aggregate score of 1174, while Haydin followed with an 1172. Both shooters finished with scores of 589 in air rifle with Duncan edging Haydin by two points (585-to-583) in smallbore.
Ryan Wee and
Stephanie Milvain rounded out the Midshipmen's top five on the day. Wee posted scores of 576 in smallbore and 589 in air rifle for a combined score of 1165. Milvain was two points back of Wee with an 1163. The senior team captain carded totals of 579 in smallbore and 584 in air rifle for combined tally.
Navy's final three shooters on the day were
Joshua Potts,
Catherine Dely, and
Devin Uhrich. Potts posted scores of 575 in smallbore and 581 in air rifle for an aggregate score of 1156. Dely was two points behind Potts with a total of 1154 after scores of 572 in smallbore and 582 in air rifle. Uhrich closed out the Navy scoring posting tallies of 570 (smallbore), 568 (air rifle), and 1138 (aggregate).
Up next, Navy travels to Ohio for a busy weekend on November 16-17. The Mids will take on No. 8 Ohio State and No. 10 Nebraska in Columbus, Ohio on Saturday, Nov. 16 before closing out the weekend against No. 13 Akron and Nebraska in Akron, Ohio on Sunday, Nov. 17.
