WVU Sits In Fourth Place At GARC Championship
February 23, 2008 08:20 PM | General
February 23, 2008
Individual Results
Team Results
MORGANTOWN, W.Va.- The West Virginia rifle team currently sits in fourth place at the Great American Rifle Conference championships after smallbore competition, being held at Ole Miss in Oxford, Miss., today.
WVU scored a 2,290 in the smallbore event and was led by freshman Brandi Eskew who shot a 578. Freshman Tommy Santelli shot a 577 followed by senior Lafe Kunkel (575) and Kyle Smith (560).
The Mountaineers trail Army (2,316), Kentucky (2,306) and Nebraska (2,305) in the eight-member field. WVU is ahead of both Ole Miss (2,272) and Memphis (2,216), while Xavier did not compete in the event.
Eskew advanced to the finals of the event and shot a 95.7 out of 100. The Petersburg, W.Va., native, finished eighth out of 56 shooters.
“Overall, our team score is not one of our best but we’re not out of the running,” comments Head Coach Jon Hammond. “We are sitting in fourth place right now and we can make some points up in the air rifle event. We’ve been improving the last few months in that event and hope to shoot well.”
The championships will continue tomorrow when the eight squads will compete in the air rifle event. The competition is slated to begin at noon at the Patricia C. Lamar National Guard Readiness Center.
