CAMP PERRY, OHIO – Junior air gun shooters comprised three of the five and five of the top nine finishers in the 2010 AiR-15 Challenge event held at the CMP Competition Center on Saturday, 7 August including a second place finish by Daniel Hall, 14, of Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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| CMP board member Marsha Beasley
presents Daniel Hall a cash prize check for $450 for
winning second place in the AiR-15 Challenge. Hall was
the high-scoring junior in the event. |
SSG Tyrel Cooper, USA, and former California Grizzlie junior shooter, placed first in the Top 20 Shoot-off with a score of 196-5. Hall was a point behind at 195-4 and 17-year-old Steven Hahn of Middle Grove, New York, placed third with a score of 194-6 in a center shot tiebreaker over his father, Edward, 45, who shot a 194-5.
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| Ty Cooper, a former California
Grizzly junior shooter, won the AiR-15 Challenge and
took home $650. |
It was the second year for the event under the new name AiR-15 in keeping with the style air rifle used to fire the event – an AR-15 clone that fires .177 caliber pellets designed for the 10-meter airgun range.
As a prize match, winners were awarded cash prizes that were determined by the number of entrants who participated in the preliminary re-entry matches, which were unlimited. Thanks to the 250-plus entries in the event, the top six places in the shoot-off earned prize money in the following amounts: first place garnered $650 followed by $450 for second, $300 for third, $200 for fourth, $150 for fifth and $125 for sixth.
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| Thanks to lots of entries in the 2010
AiR-15 Challenge, the top finishers each received
generous cash prizes ranging from $125 to $650. |
After 20 shots there was a tie for fifth place between Troy Lawton, 47, of Columbus, Georgia, and Maddalena with a 193-3. The two competitors were given two sighter shots and then fired a sudden death shoot-off. The first shot was a tie, and the second shot was won by Lawton, placing him 5th and Maddalena 6th.
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| David Lawton, left, and junior Sagen
Maddalena squared off in a tiebreaker to determine fifth
and sixth place. Lawton won the tiebreaker to capture
fifth place. |
In the 2010 National Matches Air Gun Events, Ashley Ahrens, 15, of Seneca, Pennsylvania, was the high scoring female junior in the 60-shot standing match, also held at the CMP Competition Center. Ahrens outscored Amanda McMullin, 17, of Pomona, California, by two center shots, 580-32 to 580-30. Crystal Reynolds, 17, of De Pere, Wisconsin, took third place with a score of 569-17.
Steven Hahn, runner-up of the AiR-15 Challenge, was the high-scoring male junior in the 60-shot match, scoring a 573-19, topping Bill Harvey, 18, of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania,(570-25), and Mark McClallen, 19, of Carbondale, Illinois (567-22).
Jacob Hedrick, 20, of Boerne, Texas, was the high junior in the 60-shot pistol match, firing a 547-6. Shelby Cammack, 19, of Sturgis, South Dakota, placed second with a score of 545-8 and Elizabeth Lutz, 17, of Annville, Pennsylvania, finished third with a 541-8.
For more information and complete results of the 2010 National Matches Air Gun Events, log onto
http://clubs.odcmp.com/cgi-bin/report_matchResult.cgi?matchID=5830. To view photos from the 2010 National Matches, log onto
http://cmp1.zenfolio.com/.
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