CCHS rifle team wins eighth straight

Published 10:42 pm Thursday, March 2, 2006

MOULTRIE — After a minor bump in the road to the state championships last week in a match at Fitzgerald, the Colquitt County rifle team resumed its consistent, solid shooting on Thursday, defeating Dodge County, 1,148-923, at the JROTC range at the high school.

With Tori Dampier and Jessica Corona each turning in a 289 and Shontae Robinson scoring a 288, Colquitt County raised its record to 8-0 with just a match at Worth County next Thursday remaining before the March 16 area competition.

Yohann Brinson, still shooting with a cast on his trigger hand, chipped in a 282, including a 97 in the prone position.

“I’m really proud of the kids,” Gunnery Sgt. Emmett Bryant, the team’s coach said. “We are just trying to keep them focused.”

Corona’s total included a 100 in the kneeling position, the first perfect score in that position that Bryant said he could remember.

She also had a 97 in the prone position and a 92 in the standing position.

Dampier got her 289 with a 99 in the prone position, a 95 in the standing and kneeling positions.

Robinson, the only junior in the top four, had a 99 prone, 93 standing and a 96 kneeling for her 288.

She has been a model of consistency this season. Since a season-opening 284, she has not had a score below 286 and has a 293 and a 291 to her credit.

Brinson, in addition to his 97 in the prone position, had a 93 standing and a 92 kneeling.

The senior shooter is expected to get the cast off his hand next week.

Colquitt County had to scratch two scores that in previous years would have led the team on many nights.

First-year shooter Amanda Thompson put together a 98 in the prone position, a 90 standing and a 93 kneeling for a 281, just one point from counting in the top four. It was her second-highest score of the season.

Megan Dubberly, also a first-year shooter, had a 97 in the prone position, an 87 in the standing position and a 93 in the kneeling position for a 277.

Colquitt County shot a 392 out of a possible 400 in the prone position, a 373 in the standing position and a 383 in the kneeling position.

The 1,148 was the team’s third-highest score of the season.