CAMP PERRY, OHIO – Joseph Totts, 20, of Mogadore, OH, the defending 2011 Junior Individual Pistol champion, won the 2012 Junior President’s Pistol Match with an aggregate score of 366-3X on a warm, sunny, yet breezy Sunday, 15 July. While Totts did not repeat as Junior Individual champ, he finished four points behind the winner, Alexander Chichkov. All junior matches are fired using .22 caliber pistols.
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Joseph Totts, of Mogadore, Ohio, won the 2012 Junior President’s Pistol Match and was the high aggregate point leader in the Junior President’s, Junior Individual and Junior Team matches.
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Totts fired 172-0X, 94-0X and 100-3X in the 20-shot slow fire, 10-shot timed fire and 10-shot rapid fire stages, respectively, and added his name to the prestigious Junior President’s Pistol trophy. The pistol matches were the first part of the CMP National Trophy Rifle and Pistol Matches fired here each summer. The rifle portion of the National Matches begins on 22 July.
Totts also finished as the leader in combined scoring, with an overall aggregate total of 913-16X, compiled in the Junior President’s, National Trophy Junior Individual and National Trophy Junior Team matches. Brett Tucker, 15, of N. Canton, OH, finished second overall in junior aggregate scoring (877-9X) and Glenn Zimmerman, 15, of St. Mary’s, OH, placed third (861-9X).
Ryan Nichols, 20, of Rootstown, OH, placed second in the Junior President’s Pistol Match (347-5X) and Michael Soklaski, 15, of Ringoes, NJ, placed third (345-2X).
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Alexander Chichkov, of Tampa, Florida, won the Junior Individual Pistol Match with an aggregate score of 280-5X, out of a possible 300 points.
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Chichkov, 18, of Tampa, FL, who outlasted Totts in the Junior Individual Pistol Match, won the event with an aggregate score of 280-5X, out of a possible 300 points. Chichkov shot an 86-1X in slow fire, 99-1X in timed fire and 95-3X in rapid fire. Tucker and Totts fired matching scores of 276, but Totts took second place from Tucker in an X-ring tiebreaker, 276-6X to 276-4X.
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The Ohio Rifle & Pistol Association swept the top three places in junior pistol team competition, led by the ORPA Jr. Gold team of David Totts and Ryan Nichols, with an aggregate score of 523-8X.
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In junior team competition, the Ohio Rifle & Pistol Association swept the top three places. ORPA Jr. Gold, fired by Totts and Nichols, took first with an aggregate score of 523-8X. ORPA Jr. Orange, fired by Zimmerman and Bryce Tucker, 16, of N. Canton, placed second (521-5X) and ORPA Jr. Black placed third (516-4X) and was comprised of Shane Creekmore, 20, of Atwater and Brett Tucker.
In the Service Pistol Warm-Up Match, fired early in the week, Joseph Storch, 19, of Piscataway, NJ, was the high junior, firing a 313-1X. It was Storch’s fifth year of competitive shooting and fifth appearance at Camp Perry. He teamed up with fellow Old Bridge Rifle & Pistol Club, NJ, member Nicolai Greco, 17, of Atlantic Highlands, NJ, in the Junior Team Trophy Match where they finished seventh.
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Joseph Storch, 19, of Piscataway, NJ, was the high junior shooter in the CMP Warm-Up Match at the outset of the pistol phase of the National Matches. He teamed up with Nicolai Greco, 17, of Atlantic Highlands, NJ, in the Junior Team Trophy Match.
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Greco said this is his second year of competitive shooting and it was his first trip to Camp Perry. He finished 27th overall of 381 non-Distinguished competitors in the M9 EIC Service Pistol match following the Small Arms Firing School on 9 July.
Lyuda Andrianova, 18, of Schaumburg, IL, competed for the first time in bull’s eye shooting this year at Camp Perry and said she came away with a great learning experience. Despite having some equipment issues, she said she was happy with her first trial at the National Matches.
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Lyuda Andrianova, 18, of Schaumburg, IL, competed for the first time in bull’s eye shooting this year at Camp Perry and said she came away with a great learning experience. She was coached by her father, Anatoly.
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Mentored by her father, Anatoly, a Certified Level II coach, Andrianova said she is looking forward to a return trip in 2013 with her sister Irina, who couldn’t come to this year’s matches due to a school commitment. The Andrianova family is a member of the Arlington International Airgun Club in Illinois.
For complete results of the 2012 CMP National Trophy Pistol Matches, log onto
http://clubs.odcmp.com/cgi-bin/report_matchResult.cgi?matchID=7966 To view and download photos from the 2012 National Matches and CMP Games, log onto
http://cmp1.zenfolio.com/.
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