5 PH shooters make Asian Games’ squad

By Peter Atencio

FIVE shooters made the cut in the national team being assembled for the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.

Officials of the Philippine National Shooting Association said this after Amparo Teresa Acuna made qualification during the final stages of the Asian Games Qualifying season for pistols and rifles at the Philippine Marine Shooting Range in Taguig over the weekend.

PNSA secretary general Iryne Garcia said Franchette Quiroz was also selected at the end of the tryouts in the women’s 10-meter air pistol at the Philippine

Marine Shooting Range in Taguig.

Acuna and Quiroz were joined by trap shooter Hagen Topacio, along with skeet shooters Enrique Leandro Enriquez and Brian Paul Rosario. Quiroz, who is at no. 138 in the Olympic Qualifying Rankings in the women’s 10-meter air pistol action, made it with her score of 569.

The 33-year-old Topacio earlier made the criteria after hitting a 115 and placing 116th during the men’s trap event of the 2023 World Cup in Doha, Qatar last March.

The 31-year-old Enriquez hit the qualification standards in the men’s division with a score of 116 last May at the Skeet Grand Prix in Conselice, Italy.

Rosario rejoined the national squad last April when