This weeks Portsmouth round saw five archers achieve personal bests and much needed practice for the twelve archers travelling next weekend to Orrell Archers to shoot in their UK record status 12th Indoor Shoot Portsmouth Round in Wigan. Firstly the personal bests and these came from Kate Dawes putting in a fantastic score for her first competition, next up was Pauline Hustings starting to refine her form to put 36 points on her best, Bradley Layton puts 30 points on his while Adam puts 13 points on his, and not to be out done Barbara Harris improves her personal best by 4 points. Gents recurve was a battle between Colin Moore and Chris Holmes, Moore managed to build up 20 point lead by the halfway stage that he would not lose and Holmes had to settle for the runners-up spot. Ladies recurve once again sees Charlotte George at the top with Barbara Harris and Anne Rutland battling it out for the other steps on the podium with Harris just edging Rutland out of the runners-up spot new archer Kate Dawes comes in a very creditable forth with this being her first competition and ever improving Pauline Hustings taking fifth. In the gents compound Peter Mumford hits the top spot coming back on form after his injury shooting only two points under his best and achieving the highest score of the day, Allan George puts in some much needed practice ahead of the Orrell trip to get the runners-up spot. Ladies compound saw Sarah Rigby and Aalin George go for it again Aalin lead from the start with Sarah playing catch up this battle went all the way to the till the last dozen were Sarah forced her authority to take the top spot from Aalin with Joy Gough taking the last spot on the podium. Last weeks battle between Adam Wright and Bradley Layton resumed between these ever improving juniors and with both putting in personal bests the scores were level with only three arrows to shoot when Adam manages to sock up the pressure and take the top spot by only three point from Bradley and Charlotte Harris taking the last spot on the podium. Gents Recurve Colin Moore 60 478 9 Chris Holmes 60 455 3 Ladies Recurve Charlotte George 60 556 21 Barbara Harris 60 524 14 PB Anne Rutland 60 497 7 Kate Dawes 60 458 5 PB Pauline Hustings 55 318 1 PB Gents Compound Peter Mumford 60 578 36 Allan George 60 573 33 Ladies Compound Sarah Rigby 60 571 32 Aalin George 60 569 29 Joy Gough 60 559 21 Junior Recurve Adam Wright 60 461 8 PB Bradley Layton 59 458 8 PB Charlotte Harris 58 372 7 Next weeks sees twelve archers travel to Orrell Archers to compete in their UK record status 12th Indoor Shoot Portsmouth Round in Wigan. So the next Club shoot with be Sunday 6th February the club championships Fita 18 round for the seniors in the morning followed by the junior Portsmouth round in the afternoon all at Onchan Community Sports Hall and the start times are 10am setup for a 10:30 start morning shoot and 1:30 for 2pm start afternoon. Ends