Monday, September 30, 2013

Brent Morgan now shooting for the University of Akron Zips

Congratulations to Brent Morgan who is now shooting for the Akron Zips.
Brent joined Frazier Simplex Rifle Team in 2009 and is taking along a great track record as he enters his freshman year at Akron. He was the captain of the Avella High School Rifle Team for three years, placed fourth overall individually in the Pennsylvania in the PIAA for 2013, shot with Frazier Simplex in the Pittsburgh and Suburban League Rifle Team for three years, member of the Pennsylvania 4-H National Rifle Team for smallbore (2010) and air rifle (2011), placing 8th individually nationally in smallbore with 4-H National Rifle Team.

More recently, Brent was part of the first-place Frazier Simplex Junior Rifle team at the 2013 Palmyra Invitational, shot a personal best of 384 in the 2012 NRA National Junior International Air Sectionals, first place at the CMP 3P air rifle match in June 2012 with a score of 285, and placed third at the 2012 Mountaineer Open with a smallbore score of 561.

Visit the Akron Zips website at: http://www.gozips.com/sports/rifle/index

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Junior Members attend Camp Perry this Summer and Win Big!

This past summer, six juniors marksmen, participated in the 2013 NRA National Matches at Camp Perry, Ohio. Three of them just came back from a National Air Rifle match in Alabama on Monday to start this competition on Wednesday.

In the 3-Position Metallic Sight Team Match, Nicolle Thiry and Nicholle Benedict (both of Frazier-Simplex) with Jack Anderson (Oil City) and Emilee Miller placed 3rd in the overall match with a combined score of 2332 and 104x's. In this same competition, Christopher Thomas and Kiboh Uchida (both of Frazier-Simplex) took a 1st place in the Intermediate Junior category with a 2296 and 89x's.

In the 3-Position Any Sight Team Match, Nicolle Thiry, Nicholle Benedict, Jack Anderson and Emilee Miller took 1st place in the Junior Team division with a combined score of 2318 and 82x's. In this same competition, Christopher Thomas and Kiboh Uchida took a 1st place in the Intermediate Junior category with a 2275 and 64x's.

During the National Matches, competitors also had the opportunity to shoot in some air pistol and rifle competitions. Thomas Welch (Frazier-Simplex) won $30.80 in the 30 Shot Air Rifle Center Shot Match (he was off the big money of $38 by the thickness of a hair). Ariana Grabowski (Frazier-Simplex) took 1st place overall women's division in the Air Rifle 60 Shot International Match (all standing) with a score of 584 and 36x's.

Congratulations to all the competitors on an outstanding summer of shooting. Next year, the small-bore competitions are scheduled to be in Indiana instead of Camp Perry.