This week saw the start of the Handicap league with a Portsmouth round being shot this brought six personal bests and four archers shooting above their handicap rating. The podium this week saw two recurve archer take the top two spots with Billy Lightfoot edging it from Adrian Breed with compound archer Colin Moore standing on the third step. Tony Hartley started very well with only dropping three points in his first dozen arrows until he was complimented on his shooting by Dave Berry and the jinx continues, Michael Tancurin leave a point and insert from one of his arrows in the boss. Three new archers to the club shot today compound archer from the UK Simon Musgrove and husband and wife team Rob and Karen Lott all three shot the Portsmouth round but with no handicap rating couldn’t be counted in the main results. Handicap Portsmouth result. Billy Lightfoot 60 17 535 1485 PB Adrian Breed 60 6 423 1465 PB Colin Moore 59 18 545 1451 PB Kirsten George 60 23 563 1445 PB Michael Tancurin 60 17 537 1439 Bradley Layton 60 8 482 1438 Tony Hartley 60 25 559 1437 Joy Gough 60 19 557 1434 Peter Mumford 60 24 564 1431 Dave Berry 60 18 536 1425 Charlotte Harris 60 3 418 1405 Anne Rutland 55 22 494 1386 Simon Musgrove 60 544 6 Karen Lott 54 315 2 PB Rob Lott 55 295 4 PB The Isle of Man Archery Club would like to congratulate Aalin George for being presented with the Geoff Corlett Most Outstanding Performance of the Island Games trophy as voted by all the different sports managers and presented by Geoff Corlett himself. Next weeks round is a Worcester in the Scratch league as usual shooting time are the morning session 10am for 10:30 start and 1:30 for 2pm for the afternoon session all at Onchan Community Centre’s Sports Hall. ENDS