Ashley Carroll narrowly missed the Women’s Trap Finals at the Tucson World Cup and fi nished in 10th place.
and nearly pulled off the repeat against the world’s best.
The American Trap shoot- ers were shut out of
the
medals in Tucson. Ashley Car- roll (Solvang, Calif.). would be the top fi nisher in 10th, while Brian
Burrows (Fall-
brook, Calif.) was the top male fi nisher in 21st. Special thanks
to the
medal fi nal would end just like any great duel should, with a shoot-off to determine each American’s medal fate. This time though, Holguin would be the one atop the podium after watching his USAMU teammates do so many times before.
Rich-
mond meanwhile picked up the ninth World Cup medal of his career. Reigning World Champi-
on Glenn Eller (Houston, Tex- as) proved that sometimes it is a matter of how you start and not how you fi nish as he missed qualifying for a potential fi nals berth by one target. Back-to-back rounds of 26 to begin the match left him scrabbling to fi nd his rhythm over the next three, something he managed to do missing just three more targets over his next 90 shots.
The performance of Per-
ry, Holguin and Richmond so captivated the World Cup it did the unthinkable in push- ing Rhode’s competitive comeback to the 14th para-
graph of this recap, even af- ter she’d manage a bronze medal in her return while tying eventual gold medalist Danka Bartekova of Slova- kia for the highest qualifying score.
Rhode hadn’t competed
in an international match since winning Olympic gold medal and fi fth-straight Olympic prize and then giv- ing birth to son, Carter, in May 2013. If she was rusty, it wouldn’t show after shoot- ing a 25-straight to begin her day followed by a pair of 24s to qualify for the fi nals with a 73/75. She would drop just one
target in the 16-shot semifi - nals and would compete in a shoot-off with Bartekova to advance to the gold-medal
Brandy Drozd fi nished fourth at the Tucson World Cup in Women’s Skeet.
round. Bartekova would edge Rhode four shots to three and force Rhode to the bronze-medal match where she’d face fellow teammate Brandy Drozd (Bryan, Texas). Those two would battle over another 16 shots that again ended in a tie. Rhode would best Drozd in yet another shoot-off, 4-3. For Drozd, this was just
another in a string of solid performances for this rising performer. She fi nished with a bronze in Tucson in 2012
Tucson Trap & Skeet Club for hosting a world-class event in a fi rst-class manner along with Visit Tucson who provided hospitality beyond compare for the nearly 300 international competitors from 44 nations. Up next, the ISSF World Cup for the world’s
best
shotgun competitors moves to Kazakhstan, May 16-25.
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