Archer wins indoor national title, five other Flames in top five

Liberty University junior Ian Rigney captured national indoor champion honors out of more than 2,000 competitors from 16 sectional events around the country in the men’s bowhunter division at the 45th annual United States Collegiate Archery (USCA) Indoor National Championships, held Saturday and Sunday at the Lancaster (Pa.) Archery Supply’s indoor range.

Rigney hit the bull’s-eye nearly 99 percent of the time, firing identical scores of 589 both days for an 1,178-point total out of a possible 1,200 points.

Three other Liberty archers in the men’s bowhunter category — junior Chris Britton (1,104) and freshmen Jason Lynch (1,074) and Zach King (1,047) — finished second, third, and fifth, respectively, in the Pennsylvania sectional field of nearly 200.

Hunter Jacobs, the Flames’ lone senior, placed third in the men’s compound division with a two-day score of 1,124, ranking him in the top 20, nationally, while junior Deanne House-Knecht, Liberty’s only female bowhunter, placed second out of more than 30 women’s contestants in Lancaster.

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