CAMP PERRY, OHIO – A pair of 16-year-olds, Sagen Maddalena, of Groveland, California, and Tyler Rico of Tucson, Arizona, led a talented class of junior shooters at the 2010 CMP National Trophy Rifle Matches.
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Mr. Tom Hughes, NRA National Match Assistant
Coordinator, presented Sagen Maddalena with the High
Junior President's Rifle Match Plaque. |
Maddalena was the high junior shooter in the President’s Rifle Match, finishing 36th overall with an aggregate score of 291-8X, just four points below the cut-off score for the Top 20 shoot-off. Rico, at 39th, tied her in raw score but trailed by two center-shot Xs.
Though neither reached the shoot-off, each made an impressive run for the top from a field of 1,277 competitors. The youngest shooter ever to earn his Distinguished Rifleman Badge at 13, Rico placed second overall in 2009 with a remarkable finish in the President’s Match.
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GySgt R. Lee Ermey, USMC, Retired, presented the Col.
Bill Deneke gold medallions to the top six junior
shooters in the National Trophy Rifle Matches and the
captain and coach of the highest-scoring team in the
National Trophy Junior Team Match. |
In the President’s Rifle Match, all shooters fire 10 shots standing at 200 yards, 10 shots rapid-fire prone at 300 yards, and 10 shots slow-fire prone at 600 yards. The top 20 shooters advance to a Final 10-shot stage at 600 yards. The 40-shot totals for these shooters determine the match winner and the top 20 places.
In addition to Maddalena and Rico, four other juniors made the President’s 100 list including Dakota Haag, 17, of Terryville, Connecticut, Travis Burian, 18, of Surprise, Arizona, Anthony Henderson, 20, of Sonora, California and Christopher Calumpong, 16, of Rayville, Missouri.
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Mr. Orest Michaels, CMP Chief Operating Officer,
presented Travis Burian with a Silver Medallion in the
Junior Highpower Clinic EIC Match. Burian placed
second overall and was the top shooter (with no EIC
points) and earned his first 4 EIC "leg" points. |
Burian earned his first four “leg” points toward earning his Distinguished Rifleman Badge in the CMP-USMC Junior Highpower Clinic Excellence-In-Competition Match during the clinic. Burian was first among those shooters who had no leg points entering the match. Thirty leg points are required to “go Distinguished.”
Rico did not walk away from the Matches empty-handed, winning the 2010 National Trophy Individual Match - High Junior with an aggregate score of 488-15X, good for 18th place overall and the fifth highest civilian. In the NTI, competitors fire 10 shots standing and 10 shots rapid-fire sitting or kneeling at 200 yards, 10 shots rapid-fire prone at 300 yards and 20 shots slow-fire prone at 600 yards.
William McCraw, 19, of Horse Shoe, North Carolina, placed second in the NTI junior standings with an aggregate score of 486-21X in a tie-breaker over Rachel Jones, 20, of Raleigh, North Carolina, who fired a total score of 486-9X.
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GySgt R. Lee Ermey awards Rico with a Compass Lake AR-Type Competition Rifle donated by Compass Lake Engineering.
Rico was the High Overall Junior Champion in the 2010
National Trophy Rifle Matches. |
Rico also won the Pietroforte Trophy as the civilian with the highest aggregate of individual scores fired in the National Trophy Individual and National Trophy Team Matches (979-34X). Junior Chad Kurgan, 19, of Twain Harte, California, was the second highest junior in the category with a combined aggregate score of 975-34X. Rico won the Col. Bill Deneke Trophy along with five other shooters who combine for the highest aggregate score in the Presidents, NTI, and National Trophy Junior Team Match. Rico was joined by Kurgan, Christopher Calumpong, Anthony Henderson, Rachel Jones and James MacMillan, 17, of Kentfield, California.
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Ken Roxburgh, left, and
Jarrod McDevitt, right, awarded the Bushmaster Cups to Christopher Calumpong,
2nd from right, and Dakota Haag. Bushmaster Firearms donated both the Overall Bushmaster Cup and the Junior Bushmaster Cup.
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Calumpong also won the Bushmaster Cup as the overall champion in the Mountain Man aggregate in the NTI and NTT using a factory Bushmaster service rifle. Since Calumpong was the Overall Championship, the Junior Bushmaster Cup was awarded to the second place junior, Dakota Haag.
In the CMP Games Matches Events, Vikki Gaddie, 20, of Mason, Michigan, won the As-Issued John C. Garand Match high junior honor with an aggregate score of 286-6X. Christopher Calvin, 20, of Canfield, Ohio, placed second with a total of 281-7X and Hannah Gaddie, 18, of Mason, Michigan, placed third with an aggregate score of 280-5X.
In the Garand Match, shooters begin with five sighting shots and 10 shots for record in the prone position in a 15-minute time period, followed by 10 shots rapid-fire prone in 80 seconds. The final ten record shots are fired in the standing position with a 10-minute time limit. All firing is done at 200 yards.
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BG Robert Clouse, Deputy Assistant Adjutant General
Army, Ohio National Guard, presented Michael Storer with the High Junior
Award in the M1 Unlimited Garand Class. Store was also the High Junior in the
M1 Carbine Match. |
The high junior in the Unlimited Garand Match was Michael Storer, 19, of Enumclaw, Washington, with an aggregate score of 282-4X. The only other junior firing the unlimited class was Patrick Gillman, 17, of Linden, Michigan, who shot an aggregate score of 260-1X. Unlimited class allows glass bedding, calibers other than .30-06, National Match sights and other modifications not permitted in as-issued competition.
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BG Clouse presented Jeremy Riggle with
the High Junior Plaque in the Springfield Match.
Riggle also had the High Handicap score in the
Springfield Rifle Match. |
In the Springfield Rifle Match junior class, Jeremy Riggle, 16, of Conesville, Ohio, placed first with an aggregate score of 289-6X. Ethan Marne, 17, of Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania, placed second with a total score of 267-1X. Placing third was Stephen Tupta, 18, of McMurray, Pennsylvania, scoring 266-2X.
Christopher Calvin, Vikki Gaddie and Ethan Marne were the three high junior shooters in the Vintage Military Match. Calvin fired a 282-3X using a Swiss Straight Pull rifle. Gaddie used a British Enfield to score a 258-2X and Marne used his Swiss Straight Pull to score a 252-1X to place third.
The Springfield and Vintage Matches both use the same course of fire as the John C. Garand Match.
In the M1 Carbine Match, Michael Storer shot a 359-2X to win high junior honors followed by Danny Ashford, III, 15, of Covington, Washington, with a 339-2X and Thomas Green, 14, of Rochester, New York, placed third with an aggregate of 332-4X.
M1 Carbine Match competitors fire 10 sighters in 10 minutes, 10 shots for record in slow-fire prone in five minutes, 10 shots rapid-fire prone from standing in 60 seconds, 10 shots rapid-fire sitting or kneeling from standing in 60 seconds and 10 shots slow-fire standing in 10 minutes. All firing is conducted at 100 yards on the SR-1 highpower rifle target (200 yard SR target reduced for firing at 100 yards).
For complete results log onto
http://clubs.odcmp.com/cgi-bin/report_matchResult.cgi?matchID=5690.
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