2019 National Trophy Rifle Matches Results
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2019 National Trophy Rifle Matches Results Camp Perry, Ohio Camp Perry Opens National Matches with Resounding First Shot By Craig Shoup, Fremont News-Messenger ERIE TOWNSHIP - Cris Stone, vice chair for the Civilian Marksman- ship Program at Camp Perry, said there are three “ping” sounds that link Camp Perry, Augusta, Georgia, and Omaha, Nebraska. Stone, who opened the national competition matches at Camp Perry on Monday with the traditional First Shot Ceremony, said everyone is probably familiar with the ping a baseball makes off a metal bat during the College Baseball World Series. Some are familiar with the ping sound a golf ball makes off a metal club at August National Golf Course, home of the Masters golf tournament. “But the ping of an aluminum bat is not nearly the authoritative and Mr. Cris Stone, Vice Chair, CMP Board of Directors and long-time competitor and CMP supporter resonant ping of a clip being ejected fired the official First Shot of the 2019 National Matches at Camp Perry. out of an M-1 rifle,” said Stone. Nothing sounds quite like the boom coming from a rifle sending a piece of lead barreling several hun- dred yards away at a speed of hundreds of feet per second. “There are only a few places known only by their locations rather than what happens there,” said Stone. “And that’s because of their history. “College baseball players talk about the road to Omaha, or they say, ‘If we win this one we can go to Omaha,’” stone continued. “These places are famous destinations, because of the greatness of what has happened there.” Continued on Page 123 SFC Dana Bowman, a former U.S. Army Golden Knights skydiver and double-amputee, gracefully paraglided into the First Shot cer- emony by plane with a 60-foot American flag in tow. National Trophy Rifle Matches Table of Contents A Message from the COO: Camp Perry Opens National Matches with Resounding First Shot .....Inside Cover The CMP is pleased to provide this special printed edition of the Final Results of the Message from COO ............................................................................................... 1 2019 National Trophy Rifle Matches. We hope this publication, with its featured information 2019 Rifle Awards Presenters ................................................................................ 1 and photos, will be a memento of your unforgettable National Matches experience. The National Matches & National Match Staff ..................................................... 2 Though we had to make the difficult decision to cancel the 2020 National Trophy Rifle CMP Home Range Appreciation Series ................................................................. 3 events, we are taking this opportunity to fondly look back upon last year’s event – to the Acknowledgements & Sponsors ............................................................................ 4 memories that were made and the champions that were named. CMP Cup 1000 Aggregate and Team Matches ...................................................... 5 The 2019 National Matches rifle events began on 16 July with the return of CMP’s re- CMP Cup 4-Man Team Match ............................................................................... 8 CMP Cup 1000 Matches ...................................................................................... 10 freshed lineup of Smallbore events and extended though 9 August, concluding with the new CMP Cup Match Awards...................................................................................... 13 series of Long Range matches. Returning events to the rifle schedule also included CMP Cup Coggshall Earns President’s Rifle Win ................................................................ 14 Series Matches, such as Aggregate matches, an EIC match and a 4-Man team event, along with President’s Rifle Match ........................................................................................ 16 classic National Trophy and CMP Games competitions. National Trophy Individual Rifle Match .............................................................. 22 Training events held during the National Matches for adults and juniors alike included the National Trophy Rifle Matches Awards ............................................................... 27 Marine Corps Junior Clinic, Rifle Small Arms Firing School and the Advanced Clinic, led by Civilian Team Makes Hearst History ................................................................... 29 members of CMP’s highpower team. Hearst Doubles Match .......................................................................................... 31 As always, the matches featured many incredible shooting performances by noteworthy National Trophy Junior Team Match .................................................................. 36 marksmen and women that included the following: National Trophy Rifle Matches Awards ............................................................... 38 National Trophy Rifle Team Match .................................................................... 39 • SSG John Coggshall, 34, of the U.S. Army National Guard team, who topped the Presi- National Trophy Rifle Matches Awards ............................................................... 44 dent’s Rifle event with a score of 390-14x. National Trophy Infantry Team Match ................................................................ 45 • Brad Schoenemann, 19, of Lodi, WI, who was named the High Junior of the President’s National Trophy Rifle Matches Awards ............................................................... 49 Rifle Match and finished 15th overall. Robert Gill, 60, of Visalia, CA, earned the High -Se The Greatest Schoenemann: Junior Marksman Puts On A Show ........................ 50 nior title and 11th overall, as SSG Erin McNeil, 31, of the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit, Sara Rozanski’s Record Score Wins Women’s National Trophy ......................... 51 earned High Woman and 17th overall. James Fox Takes Home Multiple 2019 HP Rifle National Awards ..................... 52 • James Fox, 34, of Albany, OR, who earned the Mountain Man Trophy as the overall com- Nick Till Wins High Civilian National Trophy, 3rd Overall in NTI .................... 53 petitor in the President’s, NTI and NTT events with an aggregate score of 1287-60x. For his Springfield M1A Match ....................................................................................... 54 performances, Fox received several honors, including 13th overall in the President’s event, Springfield M1A Match Awards .......................................................................... 56 2019 Small Arms Firing School ........................................................................... 57 the second-highest scoring civilian of the NTI and fourth overall, the Alice Bull Trophy as M16 EIC Match ................................................................................................... 58 the High Civilian of the President’s and NTI, the Pershing Trophy as the highest individual CMP Highpower Clinics Held at Camp Perry ..................................................... 61 of the NTT and the Pietroforte Trophy as the High Civilian of the NTI and NTT matches. Williams and Betzold Nearly Sweep Games Events ........................................... 63 • Nathan Russell, 37, of Emlenton, PA, who was the overall winner of the M16 Rifle Match, M1 Carbine Match ............................................................................................... 65 with a score of 394-14x and cleaned both the slow fire prone and rapid fire prone stages. Modern Military Match ........................................................................................ 68 • SP4 Daniel Lowe, 26, of the U.S. Army Reserve, who earned an impressive score of 497- John C. Garand Match ......................................................................................... 71 15x for the win in the National Trophy Individual event. Springfield Rifle Match ........................................................................................ 77 • SGT Patrick Sunderman, 24, of the Army Marksmanship Unit, who was the overall com- Vintage Military Rifle Match ............................................................................... 80 Three & Four Gun Aggregate Awards ................................................................. 83 petitor in the Open category of the Smallbore Prone 6400 Aggregate Championship and the Vintage Sniper Rifle Team Match ........................................................................ 84 Prone Any Sight competition. Mark Del Cotto, 59, of Lexington, KY, topped Sunderman by Roosevelt Commemorative Match ...................................................................... 88 three points to earn the overall title in the Iron Sight Championship. Records and Junior Success Mark 2019 National Rimfire Sporter Match .......... 90 • SP4 Jared Desrosiers, 22, who claimed the overall Open Aggregate win in the Three- National Rimfire Sporter Rifle Match .................................................................. 91 Position Smallbore event and also led the Any Sight Championship. Howard Pitts, 54, of National Rimfire Sporter Awards ......................................................................... 94 Taft, TN, led the Iron Sight Championship. New and Familiar Faces Top Standings During National Air Gun Matches ....... 95 • Antonio Gross, 19, of Ontario, NY, who led the Smallbore Junior 6400 Aggregate and the Sunderman