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2018 RIFLERY CHAMPIONSHIPS; WEDNESDAY SCORES  

Today, we preview the 2018 GHSA Riflery Championships, which will be held at Pool International Shooting Complex at Fort Benning near Columbus. There are many strong contenders among the teams and individuals, and Score Atlanta's Craig Sager takes a look at the field.

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WED. SCORES

Baseball

Camden Co. 3, East Coweta 0
GAC 10, Jackson County 0
GAC 7, Jackson County 2
Woodward Acad. 10, Baldwin 0
Woodward Acad. 12, Baldwin 1

Boys Soccer

Alexander 3, Sprayberry 2
Allatoona 6, Douglas County 2
Alpharetta 3, Dacula 2
Cambridge 3, Lanier 0
Campbell 3, Camden County 1
Carrollton 3, Flowery Branch 1
Chattahoochee 3, Habersham Cent. 0
Clarke Central 3, Villa Rica 0
Clarkston 3, North Springs 0
Coffee 4, Effingham County 1
Creekview 4, Hughes 2
Dalton 4, Northgate 0
Decatur 6, Arabia Mountain 0
East Coweta 4, Colquitt County 2
Etowah 1, McEachern 0
Forest Park 3, Lakeside-Evans 2
Gainesville 3, Pope 1
Glynn Acad. 5, Northside-WR 1
Grady 2, Cross Keys 1
Grayson 2, Parkview 1
Greenbrier 5, Drew 1
Grovetown 3, Jonesboro 1
Hillgrove 4, Woodstock 1
Johnson-Gainesville 7, Kell 0
Lambert 2, Mill Creek 1
Lowndes 5, Wheeler 2
Milton 3, Collins Hill 0
Norcross 3, Rockdale County 0
Peachtree Ridge 2, Forsyth Central 0
Pebblebrook 2, Tift County 0
Richmond Hill 5, Houston Co. 2
Rome 3, Cedar Shoals 2
Roswell 3, North Cobb 1
South Effingham 5, Warner Robins 0
South Forsyth 1, North Gwinnett 0
South Gwinnett 3, Meadowcreek 1
Starr's Mill 3, Woodland-Stockbridge 0
Statesboro 3, Harris County 2
Thomas Co. Central 3, Ware Co. 1
Tucker 2, Heritage-Conyers 0
Union Grove 1, Fayette County 0
Valdosta 3, Brunswick 0
Veterans 2, Wayne County 0
Walton 1, Kennesaw Mountain 0
Whitewater 1, Eagle's Landing 0

Girls Soccer

Bremen 10, Redan 0
Campbell 4, Lowndes 1
Glynn Academy 9, Northside-WR 0
Grady 6, Cross Keys 0
Greater Atlanta Chr. 8, East Jackson 0
Johnson-Gainesville 8, Rome 1
Richmond Hill 4, Valdosta 0
Roswell 5, Marietta 0
Savannah CD 3, Stratford Acad. 0
St. Pius 2, Chestatee 1
Union Grove 3, Fayette County 2
Warner Robins 3, South Effingham 0
West Forsyth 1, Mill Creek 0
Whitewater 2, Eagle's Landing 0

Boys Lacrosse

Lakeside-Evans 9, Greenbrier 8
Lambert 14, West Forsyth 3
Mill Creek 16, Mountain View 12

Girls Lacrosse

Alpharetta 17, Lambert 5
Brookwood 7, Parkview 3
Fellowship Christian 11, Greater Atlanta Chr. 10
Grady 17, St. Pius 16
Lanier 13, Duluth 10
Lovett 15, Walker 4
Marist 12, Decatur 9
North Gwinnett 12, Kell 9
North Paulding 17, Harrison 16
Woodland-Henry 21, Dutchtown 7
Thursday, April 26, 2018
RIFLERY
By Craig Sager

GHSA riflery championships set for this Saturday at Fort Benning

The GHSA Riflery State Championship presented by Georgia Army National Guard takes place this Saturday, April 28 at the Pool International Shooting Complex at Fort Benning.
Fifteen schools automatically qualified by winning their head-to-head semifinal matches. They are East Coweta (1151), St. Vincent's (1107), LaFayette (1146), Allatoona (1157), Tift County (1138), Buford (1135), Cherokee (1122), North Forsyth (1106), Columbus (1125), Social Circle (1130), Woodward Academy (1139), Carrollton (1141), Ware County (1174), Paulding County (1124) and Riverside Military (1118). The two highest losing semifinalists also earned spots, Lumpkin County (1137) and Upson-Lee (1125), rounding out the field to 17 teams.
Courtesy of GHSA
Defending state champion Ware County posted the highest team score at the semis, topping second-highest Allatoona and third-highest East Coweta by 17 and 23 points, respectively. Just like Saturday's championship format, the top four scores of the five-person teams will be calculated for the team score, and Ware County is already showing an incredible combination of talent and depth. In the semis, Ben Smith shot perfect 100s on the prone and kneeling and got a 96 out of 100 on the standing position to notch a state-best 296 aggregate score. Teammates Laci Jewell (294), Tyler Hanson (293), Raine Riggins (291) and Bryce Young (285) were not far behind, and Jewell led the way with 22 10-point shots in her 30 attempts to Smith's 20.
Courtesy of Ware County HS
Georgia's GHSA and Hawaii's HHSAA are the only two states that offer riflery as a sanctioned sport, and Georgia is the only one that offers it as a co-ed sport. Girls in both states are continuing to raise the bar. Last year, Monroe Area sophomore Rayven Fincher qualified for the individual title with a 294 and then posted a 101.5 in her 10-shot final to take home the individual crown with a 395.5. Fincher missed out on qualifying for the Junior Olympics by just one point and was just shy of Amber Crist's Individual State Championship (398.9), but it still marked a significant achievement after Fincher missed state her freshman year after a car crash forced a six-month recovery.
East Coweta won the state title in 2016 and was seven points behind Ware County (1,160) at last year's finals. The Indians have been on fire this season with senior Tanner Whitehead leading the way. Whitehead, who earned the silver medal in the individual competition last year, led Area 5 this season with a season-best 298.
Admission is free and the horseshoe shape of the range will allow 72 competitors to line up at once to take aim at the state-of-the-art, computerized scoring targets.






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