Albion at Bayeux Bowmen’s Ground

Seven archers represented Arundown in our last match in this seasons Sussex Albion League. Bayeux hosted the shoot at their small but picturesque field which overlooks the site of the 1066 battlefield with Battle Abbey prominent on the adjacent hill top across the valley. Although three clubs were in attendance, we had already lost to Bayeux at home and were only competing against Newhaven. Regrettably we lost our match, although we were represented solely by recurves.

Each club can field as many archers as they wish (within reason), but only the top four scores of each club count to the total. The Albion League is pretty unique as compounds shoot head-to-head with recurve bows. A simple adjustment of 80 points is taken from all compound archers total scores.

The intention of the Sussex Albion League is to get clubs to socialise together and is intended to be non-competitive. However throwing leagues and a cup into the mix, does make it competitive.

The simplistic 80 point adjustment can only be argued as valid if you compare gents MB classification scores. As the average archer attending an Albion is more likely to be 1st or 2nd Class the adjustment should be bigger. In addition Ladies compete head-to-head with Gents. With a large number of clubs fielding a number of compounds, it’s tough for a pure recurve team to compete.

We had some good scores on the day, especially Simon Beach’s vastly improved Albion PB of 731, which exceeded a 1st Class by 31 points. Simon has improved greatly this year and we should see greater things from him during the 2010 outdoor season.

The scores on the day were: -

Richard Cobden 832
Jon Stafford 819
Simon Beach 731
Graham Brown 706

Total 3088

Russell French 669
Rod Brown 661
Declan Ross-Thomas 595

July Selby Results

Here are the scores for the not so sunny month of July. Can I please ask scorers to mark down X’s on the sheets as well as golds on the remaining shoots.

I will edit and add the opponent’s scores when they come in.

I would like to remind everyone that the summer Selby is the last postal I will be running for Arundown. Unless anyone offers, we will not be entering the winter leagues.

Division 9
Jon Stafford score 558, hits 71, golds 10
Richard C score 553, hits 72, golds 5
Russ score 535, hits 72, golds 7
Total score 1646, hits 215, golds 22

Threshold (+120) 1645
Corrected Score 1644
Vs Winnington Park A - Scored 1512 Win.

Division 14
Graham score 533, hits 71, golds 12
Rod score 521, hits 67, golds 11
Simon score 476, hits 68, golds 11
Total score 1530, hits 206, golds 34

Threshold (+120) 1445
Corrected score 1360
Vs Perriswood - Scored 1102 Win.

Division 18
Hamish score 427, hits 59, golds 2
John N score 412, hits 69, golds 2
Richard G score 363, hits 69, golds 6
Total score 1202, hits 197, golds 10

Threshold (+120) 1200
Corrected score 1198
Vs Quantum B - Scored 945 Win

June Selby League Results

This post is a little late as I had to request Gravesend C’s results. We won 2 matches in June, as Arundown B was hit by the threshold penalty.

Arundown A 1575 no adjustment
v
Laleham A 1182 no adjustment
Result: Win

Arundown B actual score 1480, adjusted to 1410
v
Sprowston Archery Society 1419 no adjustment
Result: Loose

Arundown C actual score 1218, adjusted to 1182
v
Gravesend C 1002, no adjustment
Result: Win

Team breakdown
A
Jon Stafford - 72 hits - 5 golds - 2 Xs - 527 total score
Russ French - 72 - 9 - 2 - 525
Rod Brown - 72 - 5 - 3 - 523
B
Graham Brown - 69 - 15 - 0 - 516
Declan Ross-Thomas 69 - 3 - 3 - 485
Simon Beach - 69 - 5 - 0 - 479
C
John Nolan - 71 - 7 - 4 - 473
Hamish Mattheson - 68 - 2 - 0 - 449
Richard Gargon 58 - 1 - 1 - 296

Marc Bevan - 53 - 2 - 0 - 290

31st Sheila Brown Memorial Shoot

Myself and Russell attended the shoot last Sunday. You should never complain that the weather is too hot in this country, so I won’t.

We were shooting a York round, which kicks off with a morning shooting of 6 dozen at 100 yards. The scopes became difficult to focus as the day went on and the heat haze blurred the vision. After a 40minute lunch we shot 4 dozen at 80 yards and then the 2 dozen at 60 without a break.

The Sheila Brown is a longstanding and popular event and attracts many top class archers.

I also learnt a top tip - If you don’t want to get lumbered with the scoring as soon as the whistle blows on the first end speed walk to the target on the pretense that you are keen to check your arrows. The last archer on the line has no choice but to grab the score card and in doing so becomes the scorer.

Mole valley hosted a well run shoot and Mark Davis presided as the Judge. I have shot at a few of Marks’s tournaments and personally think he’s one of the best out there!


A total of 32 archers shot in the Gents Recurve and the scores on the day were:

Russell came 20th, scored 754, with 132 hits and 28 golds achieving a good 1st class score

Richard came 11th, scoring 915, with 142 hits and 41 golds achieving a Bowman score and taking a Black Rose.

Arundown Selby June Results

As we have been placed in too lower leagues for our skills, we have been clobbered with threshold penalties. The actual score is what we shot and the adjusted score has the league threshold taken off.

The B & C teams were clobbered in a similar fashion in July. I will post the July results when I get the final score in from Gravesend.



Arundown A actual score 1689, adjusted to 1601
v
Surrey Bowmen 1599 no adjustment
Result: Win

Arundown B actual score 1500, adjusted to 1390
v
High Weald B 1429 no adjustment
Result: Loss

Arundown C actual score 1344, adjusted to 1056
V
BYE
Result: Win