Randi Loudin of Post Falls wins national women’s shooting championship

Randi Loudin of the Spokane Junior Rifle Team won the 2015 Women’s Precision Air Rifle 3-Position national championship when results from the NRA Open Sectional Indoor Championships were compiled.

Loudin, 18, from Post Falls, shot 583 out of a possible 600 at the Spokane Rifle Club when the event was contested earlier in the year at sites throughout the country. Scores were sent to the NRA to be tabulated and the results announced.

In the event where competitors shot against those from all age groups, Loudin also placed second in the Expert class in Precision Air Rifle 3-Position and sixth overall. The overall national champion shot 590. Loudi was also fifth in the Expert class in Precision Air Rifle Standing.

Cassidy Wilson, Aidan Maddox and Maliya Hillman won class championships.

Wilson, 14, home school, was first Sharpshooter (582 out of 600) and Maddox, 15, Riverpoint Academy was first Marksman (579), both in Precision Air Rifle 3-Position. Wilson finished eighth nationally overall and Maddox was 11th.

Hillman, 16, Lewis and Clark, was first in the Sharpshooter class in Precision Air Rifle Standing.

Hillman also won NRA National Medals by placing fourth in the Sharpshooter class in Smallbore (0.22) Rifle 4-Position and with an eighth in Sharpshooter in Smallbore 3-Position; Wilson won national medals with a fourth in Sharpshooter in Precision Air Rifle Standing and seventh in Marksman in Smallbore Rifle 3-Position; and Maddox also won a national medal by placing sixth in Marksman in Smallbore Rifle 3-Position.

Other SJRT NRA National Medal winners:

Precision Air Rifle 3-Position – Mary Maystrovich, 15, Northwest Christian, second Marksman; Katie McAdams, 13, home school, fourth Marksman.

Precision Air Rifle Standing – Mary Maystrovich, fifth Marksman; Taylor Christian, 13, Horizon Middle School, 12th Marksman; McAdams, 13th Marksman; Mason Maystrovich, 13, Northwest Christian, 14th Marksman.

Top 10 class finishes:

Precision Air Rifle 3-Position: Hillman, fifth, Sharpshooter; David Wright, 16, home school, 10th Sharpshooter.

Sporter Air Rifle 3-Position – Ben Tafoya, 11, St. Aloysius, sixth Marksman.

College scene

Cody Lang, Seattle Pacific’s junior goalkeeper from Lewis and Clark who has had an eye-popping start to the men’s soccer season, collected a couple of honors after stretching his scoreless streak to 453 minutes last week.

Lang, the Great Northwest Athletic Conference’s two-time first-team all-conference goalie, was the GNAC Defensive Player of the Week and was named a Stud of the Week in D2 men’s soccer by HeroSports.com after shutting out St. Martin’s 1-0 in the Falcon’s league opener.

In that game, he had to dive to his right to deflect a header that his coach, Mark Collings, called “one of the best saves I’ve ever seen live.”

Lang saw his scoreless streak end at 612 minutes, 53 seconds in a 1-1 draw with Concordia of Oregon on Saturday after playing to a 0-0 tie with Northwest Nazarne on Thursday.

Lang has six shutouts this season for the 5-0-2 Falcons and 23 for his career.

Golf

Four North Idaho District 4 juniors, three of them from Spokane, were selected as Diamond Line Players of the Year for 2015 by the Idaho Junior Golf Association.

The IJGA is comprised of more than 500 players from Idaho and portions of Washington and Oregon.

District 4 division winners selected for their performance throughout the season and conduct on and off the course were   Kami Twining, Liberty Lake, 11-12-year-old girls; Kylie Eash, Lewiston, 14-15 girls; Alex Cooke, Spokane Country Club, 9-10 boys; and Brayden Miles, The Creek at Qualchan, 11-12 boys.