{"id":123173,"date":"2026-02-25T16:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/123173\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T16:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:13:09","slug":"mountain-home-njrotc-falls-to-bensalem-in-national-air-rifle-league-after-late-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/123173\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Home NJROTC falls to Bensalem in national air rifle league after late rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mountain Home NJROTC\u2019s two-game winning streak in the 2026 National Air Rifle New Shooter League came to an end in Week 3 as Bensalem MCJROTC of Bensalem, Pa., rallied for a 1021-995.8 victory.<\/p>\n<p>The Mountain Home squad, coached by Jason Williams, jumped out to a 16.6-point lead after the kneeling segment and carried an 8.9-point advantage through prone. But Bensalem erased the deficit in the standing portion, outscoring Mountain Home by 25.2 points in the most technically demanding position to pull away.<\/p>\n<p>Aldyn Buterbaugh led Mountain Home with a 265.5. Bryan Williams, Kalem Warford and Kolby Spitzer rounded out the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>\tPAID ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/mhobserver.com\/ads\/hollingsworth-square-in-line\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1201\" height=\"1001\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/mhfs-square-banner@2x.png\" class=\"no-lazy-load wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The loss drops Mountain Home to 2-1 and No. 20 in the national standings. The league pairs teams by early-season performance, with each squad competing in eight regular-season matches over a 10-week schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Mountain Home faces Selma MCJROTC next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mountain Home NJROTC\u2019s two-game winning streak in the 2026 National Air Rifle New Shooter League came to an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194,57867,57868],"class_list":["post-123173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township","tag-mountain-home-njrotc","tag-mountain-home-public-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}