FAIRBANKS, Alaska – The Alaska Nanooks rifle team completed the two-day sweep of UTEP today, Sept. 29 at the Tanana Valley Sportsman Association range. The Nanooks ran away from the Miners with a total aggregate score win of 4659 to 4583. The 'Nooks claimed the smallbore win, 2304-2277 and won air rifle with a closer total of 2355-2306.
 
Kellen McAferty led the way for the Nanooks again today, claiming the top individual performance for the day. Jessica Boyce followed closely behind and rounding out the top three for the match was Haley Castillo.
 
McAfterty followed his strong Saturday shooting with an equally impressive Sunday round. In the smallbore standings, he led all shooters with a 590 score, followed by Castillo who shot a career high in smallbore, a 575. Mara Rouse for UTEP took third, shooting a 575 as well. 
 
Head coach Layne Lewis had nothing but good things to say about the Nanooks performance today, "Today's match at TVSA went great. It is always fun to go out and compete at TVSA, they are great hosts and the community engagement there is awesome. We improved our scores from yesterday and still learned quite a bit that we can build into our training for the next couple of weeks before our next match. It was good to see the improvement in both guns at TVSA as it is our first away match and not at a normal collegiate setting."
 
Jessica Boyce led the way in air rifle with a 596. Alaska took position 1-5 in air rifle with nobody shooting under 580. 
 
Alaska moves to 2-0 on the season and will be back in action in two weeks on Oct. 11 against the Ohio State University. 
 
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