Flames, Lady Flames shotgun team members represent Liberty at N.C., Michigan events

Shotgun team at North Carolina Championships — Six members of Liberty's shotgun team competed in last weekend's North Carolina State Sporting Clay Championships in Washington, N.C.

Six members of Liberty University's shotgun team traveled to the North Carolina State Sporting Clays Championship this past Saturday and Sunday at Hunters' Pointe Sporting Clays in Washington, N.C., where they represented the university well with strong showings.

Liberty senior Dalton Krossman experienced the most success as not only the FITASC B Class champion and Junior Champion, but also the Main Event Class B runner-up and third-place Junior finisher, as well as the Super Sporting B Class runner-up and Junior runner-up.

In the Main Event, shooters fired at 200 sporting clays over the two-day competition.

Freshman Mattox Purdham earned Main Event Master Class runner-up and Junior Champion honors as well as the Five Stand Junior runner-up and the Super Sporting Clay third-place Junior competitor recognition.

Lady Flames junior Lilly Cooper finished third in her class in the Main Event, third in the Super Sporting Clay C class, and was the third-place female overall and C Class runner-up in the Make-A-Break competition.

Flames freshman Jared Moore was the Five Stand AA Champion and Junior Champion. Senior Matt Daniels and sophomore Garrett Thompson also competed in the weekend competition.
From Sept. 9-16, Lady Flames freshman Lucy Myers participated in the 2024 USA Shooting Trap National Championships at Hillsdale College in Michigan on Sept. 9-16. The Pennsylvania native won the silver medal in the collegiate women's category.

"She had to compete in multiple bunker trap events over the past several months in order to qualify," Liberty Head Coach Jacob Davis said. "Though these events were not university sanctioned, the students did represent Liberty in them."

Davis plans to send all 20 members of his team to the Fourth Annual Mid-Atlantic Cup on Dec. 1 at Brushy Mountain Club in Hurt, Va., where they will compete only in sporting clays against shooters from East Carolina University, Hampden-Sydney University, Virginia Tech and possibly other area schools.

The Flames and Lady Flames will take 12 shooters to the Lower East Coast Conference, set for Feb. 7-9 in Savannah, Ga., where they will compete in all the shooting disciplines.

"That will be a good warm-up for (ACUI) Nationals (in San Antonio)," Davis said, noting that Liberty has already qualified for that March 16-22 event based on last season's podium finish at Division III nationals for its third-place finish. "We have won the Upper East Coast Conference championships in the past, but have never won the Lower East Coast, which has a lot of Division I and Division II teams in it and is a lot more competitive."

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Flames, Lady Flames shotgun team members represent Liberty at N.C., Michigan events

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