RESULTS

CHARLESTON, S.C. – The 20^th-ranked Citadel rifle team closed out the fall portion of the 2017-18 campaign Saturday with a match against No. 11 North Carolina State, 22^nd-ranked Georgia Southern and Clemson's club team. The Bulldogs' co-ed squad finished second with an aggregate score of 4574, coming up just short of the Wolfpack's 4654 for top honors, while The Citadel women's team ended the match with a season-best score of 4266.

"This was a good way to end the semester," said head coach William Smith. "Overall, we performed very well and had some shooters post their best scores of the season. I was really pleased with how both the co-ed and women's teams performed today from top to bottom."

N.C. State's Lauren Phillips and Will Marciniak paced the field with an 1176 aggregate score and 1159, respectively. Phillips posted the top marks in both disciplines, shooting 587 in smallbore and 589 in air rifle. The Wolfpack finished the day with five shooters in the top-10 for aggregate score.

Junior Allison Auten posted season-bests in both smallbore and total aggregate score to lead the co-ed team. Auten shot 566 in smallbore, improving her season best by two points over her previous best score from two weeks ago. When combined with her 587 in air rifle score, which was the second-best score posted in the discipline in the match, she ended the day sixth overall with an aggregate score of 1153.

Close behind Auten was freshman Max Brabston with an 1152. Brabston ended the day seventh overall as he shot 573 in smallbore and 579 in air rifle.

Colton Poole and Alexander McAlear were also locked in a close battle during the match with Poole finishing the day with an 1131 (556 smallbore, 575 air rifle) compared to McAlear's 1130 (565 smallbore, 565 air rifle).

Morgan Long and Leah Wallace rounded out the scoring for the team. Long shot an 1118 (545 smallbore, 573 air rifle) while Fenwrick-Wallace shot a 1074 (504 smallbore, 570 air rifle).

For the women's team, Shay Littlejohn posted her season-best aggregate score and air rifle scores to finish second on the squad. Littlejohn finished with an aggregate score of 1077 made up of a 524 smallbore and 553 air rifle.

Carli Cline was the top shooter for the women's team with a 1095 aggregate score (543 smallbore, 552 air rifle) while Lauren Pringle was third on the squad with a 1074 (516 smallbore, 558 air rifle). Tierra Price and Maia Farina rounded out the scoring for the Bulldog women with a 1020 aggregate score (494 smallbore, 526 air rifle) and a 910 (420 smallbore, 490 air rifle) respectively.

The Citadel will now be off until January. The next match will pit the 20^th-ranked Bulldogs against the fourth-ranked Nanooks of Alaska-Fairbanks on January 10.

The Citadel will host the 2018 SoCon Rifle Championships March 3-4, 2018 inside the Inouye Marksmanship Center as well as the 2018 NCAA Rifle Championships March 8-10, 2018 inside McAlister Field House. The NCAA rifle championships will mark the third national championship competition hosted at The Citadel and first since Johnson Hagood Stadium was the site of the 1983 and 1984 Division I-AA football national championship games.

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