CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Citadel rifle teams earned three season-best scores Saturday at the Southeastern Air Rifle Conference Championships.

The SEARC Championship match featured only air rifle competition among the seven competing teams. North Carolina State won the event with a score of 2,340 points. North Georgia was second with 2,306, and Georgia Southern's 2,285 points placed third. The Citadel's co-ed team scored 2,278 for fourth place and the women's team had 2,232 points for sixth. Wofford's 2,259 points were fifth, and UAB placed seventh with 2,187 points.

Junior Richie Parra and sophomore Morgan Long led the Bulldogs with 571 points, a total that was a season-high score for Parra and the 13th-best individual score of the day. Sophomore Matthew Davenport registered a season-high score of 570 to finish 18th. Classmate Colton Poole scored 566 points, while freshmen Hunter Ferguson and Tommy Simrill posted scores of 558 and 557. Sophomore Christian Romero also scored 557. Senior Michael Chen scored 548, and junior Patrick Meyer posted a score of 540.

Freshman Leah Wallace led The Citadel women's team by scoring 567 points and finishing 24th overall. Senior team captain Amber Mills scored 556, and fellow senior Fallon Weaver posted a season-high 555 points. Freshman Allison Auten also scored 555, and senior Jennifer Burch scored 554. Freshmen Shay Littlejohn and Brandi Duzz scored 509 and 503 points.

Saturday's match was the final SEARC event for The Citadel, which will compete in the Southern Conference next season as the conference home for the Bulldogs' other teams is adding rifle as a championship sport for the 2016-17 season.

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