Monday, 22 March 2010

March Postal Results

A fantastic turnout for our last indoor Postal shoot of the season, and although we had quite a hill to climb to beat Aquarius, we certainly didn't go down without a fight!!!

With an average of 555 needed to beat our opponents and stand any chance of a division win, it was a close run match, but our efforts were not quite enough. Aquarius scored 2774 and we scored 2739, but it was our best score of the league so I think we did Arundown proud!

This month's scores were split as follows:

Hamish Matheson : 555
Russell French : 548
Graham Brown : 548
Alex Blows : 544
Simon Beech : 544

Thank you to everyone who took part, I hope you all enjoyed it and are looking forward to the Selby league which will be starting in May, dates will be announced.

Friday, 12 March 2010

K2 Indoor Shoot

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Marc, John, Liz, Heath, Simon and Jon competed in the Sussex / Southern Counties Regional Championships at the K2 centre in Crawley. They all shot a single Portsmouth round, and then Simon shot another Portsmouth before joining Liz, Heath and Jon to shoot in the FITA 18-metre Club Team Shoot - when he began to wonder whether it had been such a great idea to do three rounds back to back. Although his score suffered compared with his normal performance, the team aggregate was almost certainly better than any other combination of members would have totalled at the moment.

The team total was 2017, made up of Heath - 515, Jon - 514, Liz - 508, Simon - 480 which are evidently all Personal Bests! I should explain, it was the first time either Heath or Simon had shot the round, and Jon calls the FITA18 his Round of Doom because apart from this time he's always been below par. As for Liz, this is probably the best she's ever shot indoors, and the same may be true for Heath too (compound bow scores are handicapped by using the 'inner ten-ring'). The fifth member of the team was John who took the scores - and I noticed Andy Galley from Crawley, now one of the regulars at our shoots, stuck with the team through the shoot helping to pull Heath's compound arrows from the very hard bosses.


This was the second Regional Champs at the K2, and for the third year both the SCAS and the Sussex Indoor shoots have increased the number of entrants, this is now a seriously major event with nearly 400 entrants, and SCAS are committed to continuing there. It's great to have such a good shoot on our doorstep, even if some of us get involved with running the show.

Rob was a Field Captain again, and Rod was taking photos through the day and helped on the change-overs and lost most of the skin off his fingers trying to pull Heath's arrows.

RESULTS:
Name    -  Southern Counties - Sussex County
Liz    (Recurve)      -       10   -   4
Jon   (Recurve)      -       21   -  5
Heath   (Compound)  -   23  - 13 
Simon   (Recurve)  -      41   -  15
John   (Recurve)      -     55   -  20
Marc   (Recurve)      -    63   -  26
TEAM     -    10  -  8