{"id":7245,"date":"2010-11-18T11:31:25","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T16:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=7245"},"modified":"2010-11-18T11:44:38","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T16:44:38","slug":"leathams-deliver-1-2-punch-at-uspsa-area-2-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/leathams-deliver-1-2-punch-at-uspsa-area-2-championship\/7245\/","title":{"rendered":"Leathams Deliver 1-2 Punch at USPSA Area 2 Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by Yamil Sued<\/p><\/div>\n

SEDRO-WOOLLEY, Wash. – Mesa, Arizona\u2019s husband and wife shooting duo of Rob and Kippi Leatham delivered a one-two punch for their sponsor Springfield Armory as the two once again captured titles at the U.S. Practical Shooting Association\u2019s (USPSA) Area 2 Regional Handgun Championship this past weekend at the Rio Salado Sportsman\u2019s Club in Mesa, Ariz.<\/p>\n

Kippi, the defending Lady\u2019s Production division champ, repeated as the Production champ with a final score of 760.3659. Husband Rob, who won the Limited division title in 2009, moved to the Single Stack division this year where he dominated the field with a final score of 1169.5110 to win the title.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Leathams continue to be a dominant force in USPSA competition,\u201d said Michael Voigt, president of the U.S. Practical Shooting Association. \u201cThey are well known in the sport and are fixtures at most of our major matches where they can usually be found holding trophies, just like at this weekend\u2019s Area 2 Championship.\u201d<\/p>\n

To win the Lady\u2019s Production title, Leatham outpaced her nearest competitor, Carrie Carlson of St. Peters. Mo. by over 87 points. Carleson finished second with 672.7233 points. Carrie Jamrogowicz of Missoula, Mont., who won the title in 2008, finished in third with 630.3653 points. Ana Lisa Christensen of Phoenix, Ariz. and Lisa Larson of St. Cloud, Minn. finished in fourth and fifth with 552.1019 and 538.5391 respectively.<\/p>\n

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Photo by P. Erhardt<\/p><\/div>\n

Rob Leatham\u2019s path to victory was slightly easier as the 16-time Single Stack National Champion dominated the match with a final score that was more than 182 points ahead of the second place shooter, Mike Lin of Gilbert, Ariz. who posted 987.0390 for his final score.<\/p>\n

Michael Foley of Lexington, Ky. claimed third with 923.9701 while Rich Higgins of Mesa, Ariz. finished fourth with 905.1718 and Shane Player of Tempe, Ariz. shot his way to fifth with a score of 873.2996 points.<\/p>\n

The USPSA Area 2 Championship drew more than 370 top competition shooters. Area 2 is the Southwest region within USPSA, one of the eight shooting regions in the country, and is made up of Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii and New Mexico but shooters from around the country attended.<\/p>\n

To learn more about USPSA, or to become a member, visit USPSA.org<\/a>, follow @USPSA_Shooting<\/a> on Twitter or visit the Practical Shooting blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Springfield Armory’s husband and wife shooting duo of Rob and Kippi Leatham delivered a one-two punch for the company both once again captured titles at the USPSA Area 2 Regional Handgun Championship this past weekend at the Rio Salado Sportsman\u2019s Club in Mesa, Ariz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[1215,1251,1249,759,1124,1250,1252,1253,1254,586,1255,1248,3597],"class_list":["post-7245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paul-erhardt","category-uspsa","tag-2010-area-2-championships","tag-ana-lisa-christensen","tag-carrie-carlson","tag-carrie-jamrogowicz","tag-kippi-leatham","tag-lisa-larson","tag-michael-foley","tag-mike-lin","tag-rich-higgins","tag-rob-leatham","tag-shane-player","tag-team-springfield-armory","tag-uspsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}