Baumholder shooter Selian Williams fine-tunes her rifle while her teammate Jesse Carillo checks his target using a monocular Saturday at a DODDS-Europe marksmanship competition in Wiesbaden, Germany. (Eric A. Brown/Stars and Stripes)
Baumholder shooter Selian Williams fine-tunes her rifle while her teammate Jesse Carillo checks his target using a monocular Saturday at a DODDS-Europe marksmanship competition in Wiesbaden, Germany. (Eric A. Brown/Stars and Stripes)
Wiesbaden's Maximilian Petrunyak takes aim at his target from the standing position Saturday at a DODDS-Europe marksmanship competition in Wiesbaden, Germany. Saturday's competition marks the halfway point in the DODDS-Europe marksmanship season. Wiesbaden will host the European championship Feb. 1. (Eric A. Brown/Stars and Stripes)
Moani DeGuzman, team captain for Alconbury's marksmanship team, takes aim at her target Saturday, at a DODDS-Europe marksmanship competition in Wiesbaden, Germany. Wiesbaden will host the 2013-14 European Championships on Feb. 1. (Eric A. Brown/Stars and Stripes)
Bitburg's Joshua Yarbrough focuses on his target at a DODDS-Europe marksmanship competition Saturday in Wiesbaden, Germany. (Eric A. Brown/Stars and Stripes)
Patch's Erika Hoffman used a monocular to check her aiming while in the prone position at a DODDS-Europe marksmanship competition Saturday in Wiesbaden, Germany. (Eric A. Brown/Stars and Stripes)
Patch's Benjamin Ferguson, left and Maggie Ehmann, center, compete from the standing position at a DODDS-Europe marksmanship competition Saturday in Wiesbaden, Germany. The Warriors hosted teams from Alconbury, Baumholder, Patch, and Bitburg for the competition and will also host the DODDS-Europe 2013-14 European Championships on Feb 1 (Eric A. Brown/Stars and Stripes)
WIESBADEN, Germany — The Patch marksmanship team christened the Wiesbaden Warriors’ brand new shooting range Saturday by dominating the competition at a DODDS-Europe marksmanship competition.
The top shooters from the Panthers collectively scored 1,418 out of a possible 1,500. Baumholder and Wiesbaden tied with a score of 1,276 each. Alconbury (1,152) and Bitburg (1,015) followed.
Although individual top honors went to Buccaneers’ shooter Rachel Holliday - who posted a total score of 287 and earned a maximum 100 while shooting from the prone - Panthers marksmen were able to take the next six individual positions.
“My shooters did well today considering they just came back from a three-week leave,” Panther head coach Raul Pinon said.
The Panthers began the season by racking up 1,425 points — beating the previous DODDS-Europe team record by 13 points, which was also held by Patch. And they have dominated ever since.
However, shooters such as Moani DeGuzman, team captain for Alconbury, still remain hopeful for the second half of this season.
“My prone and kneeling was real good, but my standing could have been better,” DeGusman said.
“For the rest of the season, I think we’re going to finish off strong, but even if we don’t make it to Europeans, we did real good this year because most of our shooters are first-year shooters and they’re doing amazing,” she said.
The rest of the season consists of two more Saturday competitions before the 2013-14 European Championships on Feb. 1 in Wiesbaden.
