Fox Sets Record, Wins Air Pistol Title

Olympic silver medalist Ruby Fox set a national record and captured the women’s air pistol title Tuesday at the U.S. International Shooting Championships.

Also winning events Tuesday at Prado Tiro, the 1984 Olympic Shooting facility, were Olympic gold medalist Pat Spurgin in the women’s air rifle, Don Nygord in the men’s air pistol and Matthew Suggs in the men’s air rifle.

Fox shot a 387 of a possible 400 to break her own record of 386 set last year. Her record score boosted her aggregate total for three days to 1,123, just two points better than second-place finisher, Gail Liberty, of San Antonio, Tex., with 1,121. Anaheim’s Judith Kemp was third with 1116.

Fox also took the lead in the women’s sport pistol competition after one day with a 582 of a possible 600. Judith Kemp is in second with 578, while Sallie Carroll, of Ash Fork, Ariz., is third with 574.

Spurgin, of Billings, Mont., repeated as the women’s national air rifle champion by shooting a three-day aggregate score of 1,167 of a possible 1,200 points.

Mary Godlove, of Fort Benning, Ga., finished second at 1,162, and Karen Monez, of Weatherford, Tex., was third with 1,160.

Nygord, of La Crescenta, won the men’s air pistol event with a three-day aggregate score of 1,743 of a possible 1,800 points in a competition that saw the national record tied twice.