Lexington, Va. – The Morehead State rifle team traveled to Lexington, Va., this past Sunday and conquered the VMI Keydets. MSU fielded two teams and VMI fielded three teams. MSU’s gold team fired an aggregate score of 4553 to breeze past the rest of the competition get the overall victory. The MSU blue team shot an aggregate score of 4256 to take second place. VMI’s trio of teams shot aggregate scores of 4196, 4117, and 3960 respectively.
In the smallbore match, Morehead State totally dominated individually. The top six finishers were all Eagles. The top Eagles were
Kevin Mulligan who fired a score of 572 which was good for first place.
Elizabeth Lyon finished second with a score of 571 and
Shawn Holley shot a score of 568 to finish third. In fourth and fifth place were
Rob Gagliani and
Justin Egan. Gagliani fired a 564 and Egan shot a 548.
Nicole Heitmeyer shot just one behind Egan with a 547 to take sixth place. The best finisher for VMI was Joshua Gilliland who fired a 539 which was good for seventh place.
The Eagles continued their dominance in the air rifle event as well. MSU had the top seven finishers in this part of the match. Lyon registered a score of 578 to take first place and
Kathleen Bush earned a score of 572 to take second place. Holley took third place with a score of 566. Gagliani and Mulligan finished in fourth and fifth, but were separated by only one point. Gagliani fired a 563 and Mulligan shot a 562. In sixth place was Hietmeyer with a 552 and in seventh place was Garrett Plooy who shot a 542.
The MSU rifle team has concluded the fall portion of it’s schedule and will be in action again on January 23, 2010 at home in a tri-match against Rose Hulman and VMI.