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Emmons, Szarenski, Scherer and Uptagrafft Claim Top Spots on Day Two of Winter Airgun Championships COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (December 5, 2009)  Matt Emmons and Sarah Scherer each won first place in rifle again today, while Daryl Szarenski and Sandra Uptagrafft took home the titles in pistol on the second day of competition at the 2009 Winter Airgun Championships. Emmons (Browns Mills, N.J.), an Olympic gold and silver medalist, captured the Men’s 10m Air Rifle title for the second day in a row, firing a match score of 598, an excellent final of 104.6 for an overall score of 702.6 points. West Virginia University’s Michael Kulbacki (DuBois, Pa.) grabbed second place with 697.3 total points. U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit (USAMU) member Joe Hein (Phenix City, Ala.) took third with a total score of 696.9. Kulbacki also won the Junior Men’s Air Rifle title for the second consecutive day after finishing with 696.7 total points. Kulbacki’s WVU teammate Andy Lamson (Colchester, Vt.) took second place with 691.5, while 2008 Olympian Stephen Scherer (Fort Worth, Texas) claimed the third spot for the second day in a row with 689.9 points. USAMU member and three-time Olympian Daryl Szarenski (Saginaw, Mich.) took home the Men’s Air Pistol title for the second consecutive day after shooting a match score of 578, a final of 99.7 for a total score of 677.7. Brian Beaman (Selby, S.D.), a 2008 Olympian, took second place for the second day in a row with an overall score of with 676.6, points. Cody Owsley (Tonganoxie, Kan.) finished in the third spot with 673.2 points. Will Brown (Twin Falls, Idaho) won his second Junior Men’s Pistol title of this Winter Airgun match, after firing a total score of 669.9 points, which was 20.6 points ahead of second place finisher Jack Dutoit (Arlington, Texas), who fired a total score of 649.3. Matthew Pueppke (Amenia, N.D.) finished in third place again today with 647.6 total points. Eighteen-year-old Sarah Scherer (Fort Worth, Texas) of the Texas Christian University rifle team claimed the title in Women’s 10m Air Rifle for the second consecutive day after shooting 399 points in the qualification, which is one point away from the perfect 400 points she shot on day one of the match. Scherer fired 103.3 points in the final to end up in first place with a total of 502.3 points. Two-time Olympian Emily Caruso (Fairfield, Conn.) earned second place with 501.9 points, while Meghann Morrill (Charlottesville, Va.) took third place with 499.3. Scherer took first place for the junior women again today with 501.5 total points. University of Kentucky’s Megan English (Boulder, Colo.) finished second with 496.6 and Sarah Beard (Danville, Ind.) earned the third spot again for the junior women today with 496.0 points. In Women’s Pistol, Sandra Uptagrafft (Phenix City, Ala.) shot her way to the top spot with a qualification score of 372, a final of 99.4 for an overall score of 471.4 points. Day one champion Teresa Meyer (Dearborn, Mich.) earned second place today with 470.2 total points. Courtney Anthony (Lexington, Neb.) grabbed third place for the second day in a row with a total score of with 468.7 points. Anthony also took home the junior title for the second consecutive day with a score of 468.4, while Hannah Lewis (Colorado Springs, Colo.) claimed second place again with 464.4 points and Kelsey Imig (Westminster, Mass.) earned third place with a total score of 456.4. Click here for complete Winter Airgun Championship DAY 2 results Click here for DAY 3 start lists ELEY is a Proud Sponsor of the USA Shooting Rifle and Pistol Teams: [ Back ] |
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