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No. 5 Kentucky rifle outlasts No. 12 Navy in tightly contested battle

Related Topics: Sam Adkins, Long rifle, Judy Peiser

No. 5 Kentucky rifle (3-0) scored a season high in its narrow defeat of No. 12 Navy (5-3) by a score of 4,727-4,692.

Kentucky excelled in both disciplines, securing a season-high 2,355 points in smallbore while scoring 2,372 in air rifle. Navy followed closely with 2,331 points in smallbore and 2,361 points in air rifle.

Junior Sofia Ceccarello emerged as the top individual shooter for the Wildcats with an impressive aggregate score of 1,189, comprising a 592 in smallbore and a 597 in air rifle, totaling 93 centers on the day.

Kentucky’s Braden Peiser and Navy’s Isabella Baldwin followed closely with aggregate scores of 1,185 and 1,182 respectively.