No. 7 Rifle Falls to No. 3 Navy Saturday

LEXINGTON, Ky. – No. 3 Navy put together a strong performance in smallbore to take control of the match and used an impressive air rifle performance to defeat No. 7 Kentucky on Saturday inside Barker Hall.

The Wildcats scored a 2343 in smallbore and 2385 in air rifle for a 4728 team aggregate score. Navy posted a 2356 in smallbore and 2382 in air rifle for a 4738 aggregate.

“We didn’t handle the small details well enough today to get a win against a really great team in Navy,” UK head coach Harry Mullins said. “I was happy to see Elisa put together a good match and there were some good things. We have to start getting better and taking our training into the range for competitions. We will have a couple weeks here to regroup and hopefully we can start to really get into our training and improving. Go Cats!”

Kentucky was led in the match by senior Braden Peiser, who posted a 592 in smallbore and 598 in air rifle for a 1190 aggregate. Junior Liz Peiser scored a 584 in smallbore and 598 in air rifle for a 1182 aggregate. Sam Adkins posted a 584 in smallbore and 596 in air rifle for a 1180 aggregate, while Elisa Boozer scored a 1180 aggregate with a 587 smallbore and 593 air rifle.

To complete the first relay, freshman Noah Abzug scored a 583 in smallbore and 588 in air rifle for a 1171 aggregate, while fellow freshman Maggie Palfrey scored a 576 in smallbore and 592 in air rifle for a 1168 aggregate.

In the second relay, junior Hannah Todd posted a 571 in smallbore and 589 in air rifle, while sophomore Jacob St. Hilaire scored a 579 in smallbore and 579 in air rifle. Freshman Iva Rakonjac posted a 577 in smallbore and 591 in air rifle.

Kentucky will take a weekend off before returning to action Nov. 14-15 at the WVU Fall Classic in Morgantown, West Virginia. UK will be joined at the event by WVU, Nebraska, Ole Miss and TCU.