Eagles Set Season Highs Against UAB

Saturday, October 31

Statesboro, GA - CLOSED TO PUBLIC

8 AM

Georgia Southern University

4542

4572

UAB

10/31/2020 2:04:00 PM | Women's Rifle

Judson takes air rifle gold with 586

NCAA SCORECARD

STATESBORO - The Georgia Southern rifle squad fell to defending SoCon champion UAB Saturday in a tightly contested match at the Shooting Sports Education Center on Saturday. Georgia Southern posted its highest score of the season, hitting the 4,542 team aggregate mark, seven points higher than its previous best.

In smallbore, the team posted a 2,230 which is tied for the third-highest score in program history, which the Eagles have now met in back-to-back matches. Freshman Brianne Staton placed fourth with a 566 while Kinsley Hannon (559; 5th), Erin Ballard (career-high 555; 8th), Lillian Herring (550; 9th), Ashley Judson (548; 10th), Gabby Morrow (537; 12th) and Amelia Pierce (532; 13th) shot solid numbers for the Eagles.

In air rifle, the team scored 2,312 points, its highest effort of the season. Judson led the way with a season-best 586, good for first place. Staton took fourth with a career-high 579 while Hannon shot a 577 for seventh place. Freshman Amy Visconti posted a career-best 573 for eighth place, followed by Ballard (career-high 570; 9th), Herring (569; 10th), Morrow (556; 13th), Anna Mayo (556; 14th) and Pierce (553; 15th) also shot for the Eagles.

Staton led the Eagles with a career-high 1,145 to take fourth. Hannon placed sixth with a 1,136 and Judson placed seventh with a 1,130. Ballard placed eighth with a career-high 1,125 and Herring rounded out the top 10 with a 1,119.

Words From Coach Worman:
"I'm very, very proud of the team! They are evolving and maturing at an increasingly visible rate. Today they were self-starters and very strategic in how they worked through the courses of fire. Being independent on the line and working yourself out of the weeds is the mark of an elite athlete, and they are all starting to do that consistently. Well done, ladies!

"And speaking of ladies, Coach Lori and I did an air high five at the fact that we had all female student athletes on both teams, who are coached by an all-female coaching staff (both the head coach and assistant coach at GS) plus a female athletic trainer to patch us all back up physically and two female sports psych interns to shore us up mentally. Though we couldn't do it without Bryan Johnston, our SID, and Jonathan Strickland, from IT, and Matt Horst from the SSEC, so the bottom line is that today was a celebration of people power!"

THE SCORES
UAB: 4,572 (2,255 smallbore; 2,317 air rifle)
Georgia Southern: 4,542 (2,230 smallbore; 2,312 air rifle)

THE INDIVIDUALS (Alphabetical Order)
Erin Ballard
Freshman - Reedsville, W.Va.
Smallbore - 555 (8th; CAREER HIGH)
Air Rifle - 570 (9th; CAREER HIGH)
Aggregate - 1,125 (8th; CAREER HIGH)

Kinsley Hannon
Freshman - Newnan, Ga.
Smallbore - 559 (6th)
Air Rifle - 577 (7th)
Aggregate - 1,136 (6th)

Lillian Herring
Sophomore - York, Pa.
Smallbore - 550 (9th)
Air Rifle - 569 (10th)
Aggregate - 1,119 (10th)

Ashley Judson
Sophomore - Acworth, Ga.
Smallbore - 548 (10th)
Air Rifle - 586 (1st)
Aggregate - 1,130 (7th)

Anna Mayo
Freshman - Lawrenceville, Ga.
Air Rifle - 556 (14th)

Gabby Morrow
Sophomore - Locust Grove, Ga.
Smallbore - 537 (12th)
Air Rifle - 556 (13th)
Aggregate - 1,093

Amelia Pierce
Sophomore - Greencastle, Pa.
Smallbore - 532 (13th)
Air Rifle - 553 (15th)
Aggregate - 1,085

Brianne Staton
Freshman - Deatsville, Ala.
Smallbore - 566 (4th)
Air Rifle - 579 (4th; CAREER HIGH)
Aggregate - 1,145 (4th; CAREER HIGH)

Amy Visconti
Freshman - Champlain, N.Y.
Air Rifle - 573 (8th; CAREER HIGH)

Up Next: The Eagles are scheduled to return to action on Sunday, Nov. 15 against SoCon rival North Georgia at the Shooting Sports Education. No fans are allowed in the SSEC this season due to COVID capacity issues.