Southern Counties Clout Championships 1st June

Four of us travelled to Dunstable, and Liz and Jon came back with silverware.

Liz is the new Southern Counties Lady Recurve Champion with the best score ever by a Sussex lady at this Championship - although seven points short of her County Record which she set at Midddlesex last year.
Last November Jon beat Dicky Summers' long-standing (1993) record for the double two-way round. The new record didn't last long, barely six months later two of our archers bettered it, Rod by one point, and Jon by twenty four! This was enough to get him 3rd place in SCAS Championships. He also received the Silver Salver for Most Clouts - he managed to score six.
Rod's 148 score was a personal best, his previous best (136) was set in October 1988, so this has taken nearly twenty years...
NEW RECORDS... Liz's Single Round Score of 82 is a new Sussex County Record; Jon's Single Round Score of 84 and his Double Round score of 171 are both new County Records.
CLASS PLACINGS... Liz 1st; Jon 3rd; Rod 4th; Russ 6th
Just to give you an idea of the size of the Southern Counties, it includes Bedfords, Berks, Bucks, Essex, Hants, Herts, Kent, Middlesex, London, Norfolk, Oxford, Surrey and Sussex.
There were 68 entrants.
MORE PICTURES BELOW....

Jon Shoots - Liz collects award



The Current British Clout Champion looks pensively at Rod's Arrow in the Clout, as it dawns on him he's being overhauled.
Both Rod and Jon scored more than he did...


We needed three Judges in day-glo jackets to keep us in order