No. 3 UK Faces No. 1 West Virginia for Regular Season Conference Crown

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The third-ranked Kentucky rifle team will close out the regular season on the road with a chance to win the Great American Rifle Conference Regular Season Championship when it takes on top-ranked West Virginia on Sunday at 10 a.m. ET inside the WVU Rifle Range.
 
Fans can follow the match with live targets.
 
“I think the team’s been working really hard the last couple weeks in training and preparation,” head coach Harry Mullins said. “We’ve seen some good things from our younger shooters in Hailee (Sigmon). She’s had some great numbers in the last three training sessions and even leading up to that in the last few matches. I like to think there’s a different vibe around the team right now than in years past going into this time of the year. We should be able to produce a number that we started the beginning of the season with, if not higher, and we’re just going to accept where that takes us.”
 
Sunday will mark the first match on WVU’s new portable range in a different, open venue and atmosphere as opposed to a confined range space.
 
The Wildcats enter Sunday’s contest with just one loss on their record: a second-place finish to No. 2 TCU’s first-place slot at the Ole Miss Open back in October. The Wildcats still fired 4714 in that event, tied for its best score of the season. UK is coming off a 4686-4650 home win against No. 16 Memphis. Freshman Henrik Larsen will be back in the lineup after missing the last match to international competition. Larsen and the Wildcats will shoot against an elite West Virginia team for the first time this season.
 
Like UK, the Mountaineers are undefeated in conference play but edge the Wildcats with an undefeated slate overall. WVU owns eight of the top nine aggregate scores and top eight air rifle scores in the country. During a three-match stretch across five days, the Mountaineers took down Ole Miss, Alaska-Fairbanks, and Navy handily, with their lowest score still eclipsing the 4700-mark at 4718.
 
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