In the second match of the 2025-2026 National Intercollegiate Rifle League, contested last week, teams faced a standing air rifle course of fire — 60 shots scored in decimal with the top four scores counting to the team total. Georgia Military College posted 2307.5 to defeat the University of Rhode Island’s 2225.5. The game featured a tight individual race that turned late, with Georgia Military College’s MacKenzie Sookhoo closing to win at 609.8.

Season standings remain paced by Georgia Military College on a 2297.7 team average, with the University of Rhode Island second at 2217.2. Individually, Sookhoo leads the league at a 613.5 average, followed by URI’s Sophia Wood at 606.6 and Georgia Military College’s Cheyenne Malone at 599.7. URI’s Alex Travison (584.5) and Georgia Military College’s Skylar Sanford (584.0) complete the current top five.

Game 2 Recap — Team Event

Georgia Military College established the lead in the opening string and did not relinquish it. The advantage measured 14.1 after the first 10 shots and grew to 18.8 and 21.7 through the second and third strings. The gap widened further after the fourth string to 43.7 and reached 50.1 following the fifth, as Georgia Military College maintained control throughout.

Balanced scoring anchored the win. Georgia Military College counted Sookhoo’s 609.8 and Malone’s 608.4 up top, with Sanford adding 578.3 and Samuel Gillespie contributing 511.0 under coach Lisa Kelly. For URI, coached by David Wood, Wood led with 605.0, followed by Travison’s 588.5, Annika Reilly’s 520.6 and Carly Albanese’s 511.4.

Individual Event Highlights

The individual leaderboard shifted several times. Malone set the early pace through the first two strings, with Wood 2.9 back at the first split and 1.3 off the lead at the second. Wood moved to the front after the third string by 1.1 over Malone, with Sookhoo 1.4 behind Wood.

Malone retook a narrow lead in the fourth string, but Sookhoo surged to the top in the fifth and held steady over the final series. Sookhoo finished at 609.8 to win by 1.4 over Malone (608.4), while Wood placed third at 605.0. Travison was in the top three early before yielding to the eventual podium as the match tightened down the stretch.

Current Rankings

No. 1 — Georgia Military College (Milledgeville, GA), Team average: 2297.7

No. 2 — University of Rhode Island (Kingston, RI), Team average: 2217.2

Game 2 Scores: https://rezults.scopos.tech/match/1.1.2025101413444695.1/

League standings: https://rezults.scopos.tech/tournament/1.1.2025100211025190.2/?source=press-release

League Format and Schedule

The National Intercollegiate Rifle League is a national team league for collegiate rifle clubs. Each athlete fires 60 shots scored in decimal; the team score is the sum of the top four shooters. The regular season features two parts — four games in the fall and four in the winter/spring — with competitions held every two weeks. The top three teams in the overall standings at season’s end will receive awards.

Teams now turn their attention to Game 3, which will be contested over the next two weeks as the league’s biweekly schedule continues.

This press release was in part generated by artificial intelligence maintained by Scopos LLC.

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