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2017 RI Indoor 3-Position Championship

The Melcher Cup

 

The George Melcher Cup is emblematic supremacy in three position shooting in the Rhode Island smallbore community. It is a 60 shot course of fire from the prone, standing and kneeling positions on the NRA/USAS 50 target.

The 2017 Melcher Cup went to Rhode Island Revolver and Rifle President Joe Graf who nearly, figuratively speaking, shot himself in the foot. Graf took an early lead with a 192X200 prone followed by Emily Foley’s 188 and a 185 posted by Dave Czerwonka.

Czerwonka is a Smithfield Sportsmen’s mainstay in smallbore competition.

Foley, a Pawtucket native shoots for Cumberland Beagle Jr Rifle Team.  This match closes out her local competitive career as she is ticketed for a June flight to Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the US Air Force Academy Prep School. After an academic year strengthening her mind and body she hopes to earn a spot as a walk on shooting for Launi Meili and the ranked Falcons.

Graf opened with standing with a miss, the afore mentioned shot in the foot, normally a near fatal error. However, he pulled himself together and ended up with an 84 on the first card. With that behind him he posted a 79 on his second ten shot series. This gave rise to the thought that if he had opened with yet another miss, based on recent experience, he would have ended up five points better off in the standing aggregate, which he won with a 163.

Going into kneeling Graf had a solid lead and it was his match to lose. Perhaps stung by the embarrassing first shot standing he bore down and tuned out a pair of 95s for an excellent kneeling score of 190.

His aggregate score of 545 best both Foley and Czerwonka and the Melcher Cup graces his mantelpiece.

With this match the indoor season is officially at an end and the shooters now wait for a break in the weather to get outside.