Zipsrifle Posted December 6, 2005 Report Posted December 6, 2005 The Rifle team soundly beat Rose-Hulman this past saturday at their place. RH's coach built a pretty darn good team over the past 10 years or so. I don't know if they are rebuilding or what, but the Zips took it to them, and didn't even have that impressive of scores. There seems to be two teams starting to separate, but they scores are stagnating which isn't what needs to happen to get to the National Championship match. Hopefully each member can bump up their scores about 5 points to put us over the top of that magical 2300. Anyway, a win is a win...nice job folks. Good luck at Palmyra! Date: December 3, 2005 Location: Rose Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute IN Event: Akron -vs- Rose Hulman Institute of Technology The Fighting Engineers fall to Akron The University of Akron Rifle Team ended the first half of the season by handing a defeat to the “fighting engineers†of Rose Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute IN. As a testament to the depth of this young Zips squad, both the Akron Gold (4559) and Akron Blue (4464) finished ahead of the Rose team (4413). In smallbore rifle, Sophomore Stephanie Elmore lead the team with a 575 out of a possible 600 points. This is a season high score for Elmore, just one point away from her career best. Teammates Melissa Lussier (573) and Julie DeBrita (571) followed Elmore and respectfully captured the top three slots in the match just ahead of Rose’s Dave Cloutier (564). Freshman Adam Hyde turned heads with an impressive prone performance of 199 out of a possible 200 which included a perfect card of 100 out of 100. “We are steadily making progressâ€, states head coach Newt Engle, “With performances like the near perfect prone from Adam, and the inching upward averages of the rest of the team, we are on track to meet or beat our goals.†The air rifle division was all Akron as the Zips captured the top four slots at the match. Freshman Melissa Lussier was on fire and lead the team with a grand 582 out of a possible 600. “This is Melissa’s second time in the 580’s this seasonâ€, states coach Engle, “Getting into the 580’s is a notable achievement and Melissa has worked hard to earn this honor.†An having a good day with both rifles, teammate Stephanie Elmore took second place with her 577. Backed up by Michael Tokarz (573) and Megan Reinking (566). Zips Rifle will now kick back (a little) and concentrate on exams, and having a wonderful holiday. The next test for the Zips will be on January 15 when they travel to compete in the 7th annual Palmyra Invitational in Palmyra PA. This is now the largest indoor rifle competition in the US and this match will also serve as a shoulder to shoulder match with the US Naval Academy. Coach Engle states, “Needless to say, Navy is one of the best teams in the nation, but so is Akron. The outcome of this match may be surprising to everyone but us.†Smallbore Rifle Scores: *Gold team, ** Blue team 575* Stephanie Elmore 573* Melissa Lussier 571* Julie DeBrita 562** Laura Kuntz 561* Megan Reinking 556** Michael Tokarz 552** Cody Shields 552** April Engle 543 Adam Hyde Perfect 100 prone 2280 Akron “Gold†Smallbore Team Total 2222 Akron “Blue†Smallbore Team Total ============================================================== Air Rifle Individual Scores: *Gold team, ** Blue team 582* Melissa Lussier 577** Stephanie Elmore Ties Personal Best 573* Michael Tokarz 566* Megan Reinking 564** Laura Kuntz 558* Julie DeBrita 558** April Engle 543** Cody Shields 493 Adam Hyde 2279 Akron “Gold†Air Rifle Team Total 2242 Akron “Blue†Air Rifle Team Total ============================================================== Quote
zippyrifle32 Posted December 6, 2005 Report Posted December 6, 2005 The Rifle team soundly beat Rose-Hulman this past saturday at their place. RH's coach built a pretty darn good team over the past 10 years or so. I don't know if they are rebuilding or what, but the Zips took it to them, and didn't even have that impressive of scores. actually they have a brand new coach this year. former shooter and the school's only all-american jason labella. Quote
Zipsrifle Posted December 10, 2005 Author Report Posted December 10, 2005 What happened to their old coach? If I remember, he was a pretty good guy. Are they just rebuilding now? They really came on strong there for a while, I was worried they would surpass Akron and get a shot at the NCAA's first. Quote
UA Fan Posted December 10, 2005 Report Posted December 10, 2005 I saw in the latest UA Alumni magazine that our engineers also spanked RH (engineering-only school, right?) in the General Motors Challenge X auto engineering competition. UA finished #2 (behind Waterloo) and RH was #14. For more info, see: http://challengex.uakron.edu/photos/bin/vi...y.JPG&bg=c4d1db Good job Zips Rifle & Challenge X teams Quote
zippyrifle32 Posted December 10, 2005 Report Posted December 10, 2005 hehehe...good! rh is an engineering school and after meeting their new coach they're kind of elitists. zipsrifle, their old coach stepped down and jason (who is a grad student there) took the job. from talking to jason he made it sound like the old coach was finished and instead of handing the team over to rotc he stepped up and became coach. now from what i was told by other people was that jason kinda got the team to not listen to the old coach and in turn pushed him out of the job. i'm not sure which is true, but after working with jason i can definitely see the latter happening... Quote
Zipsrifle Posted December 10, 2005 Author Report Posted December 10, 2005 rh is an engineering school and after meeting their new coach they're kind of elitists. Well, from what I know about RH, which isn't too much, it is a really tough school to get into. I know I couldn't have gotten in there. I think the big advantage with UA engineering is the practicality of the education. Though we might not get the smartest students out of High School, UA seems to attract the gearheads. You know, the ones always tinkering with their cars and ripping apart things. From what I've seen, type of hands on experience is very important when you get into industry. As for the shooting team, I didn't know that was going on over there. Sounds pretty nasty, but I think it will work in UA's advantage. Newt has managed to really pull in some top talent at UA recently and if you couple that with the recent engineering successes, we might be able to steal a few shooters from them. Quote
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