This weeks fita 18 round was part of the scratch league and saw five personal bests these came from Colin Moore in the compound discipline putting 23 points on his best and also gets the highest score of the day and the rest came from the gents recurve discipline with Marcus Boyd he puts 52 on Ethan Moore puts 87 Rob Lott put 90 and Ed Bennett and Rhys Moore who have shot this round for the first time. In the gents recurve this week saw a what can only be described as nail biting end to end battle of nerves between Dave Berry and Tony Hartley the pair swapped the lead all the way through the morning Berry went one point up with only three arrows to shoot he shoots a 26 with them and leaves it open for Hartley to take advantage but Hartley’s first arrow was a six and then realised that he couldn’t do it and settled for the second step on the podium for Berry to take the top spot this week and to round the podium of in third was Ethan Moore who put in a fantastic shoot. Gents compound saw Colin Moore have the advantage today over his rival Peter Mumford who was having a bad day sending one of his trusty arrows off the target face for an uncharacteristic shot in the ladies compound Sarah Rigby topped the podium followed very closely by Joy Gough. Ladies recurve saw Barbara Harris edge a lead in the first dozen arrows that she wouldn’t lose to top the podium from Karen Lott and in the junior recurve Rhys Moore and Adam Wright have another end to end battle that would be an even closer finish than the gents recurve Moore had a two point lead with six arrows to shoot Moore and Wright were shooting the same after every arrow on the last arrow Moore get a 10 to take the top spot from Wright by only three points the third spot on the podium went to Bradley Layton who had lead till a problem with his sight adjuster that had failed after four dozen arrows. Fita 18 Scratch League Results Gents Recurve Dave Berry 60 18 501 Tony Hartley 60 10 495 Ethan Moore 59 5 456 PB Dave Moore 60 5 416 Marcus Boyd 59 3 401 PB Ed Bennett 59 4 391 PB Rob Lott 59 2 367 PB Adrian Breed 59 2 338 Ladies Recurve Barbara Harris 60 6 471 Karen Lott 60 3 418 Gents Compound Colin Moore 60 22 558 PB Peter Mumford 59 13 540 Ladies Compound Sarah Rigby 60 20 558 Joy Gough 60 19 550 Junior Recurve Rhys Moore 59 1 384 PB Adam Wright 60 5 381 Bradley Layton 56 4 367 Portsmouth round Longbow Colin Moore 47 0 219 PB Junior Megan Pilley 36 0 186 Next weeks round is a Portsmouth and is part of the handicap league this will give the fifteen strong squad a practice ahead of the trip to Wigan for the UK record status 13th Indoor Orrell Shoot at the end of January and also a chance to get a score for the January Challenge an Archery GB postal competition and to follow that on the 5th February will be the Isle of Man Indoor Target Championships the senior will be a Fita 18 being held in the morning session and the junior will be a Portsmouth being held in the afternoon session and as all shooting days the times are 10am for 10:30am start and 1:30pm for a 2pm start and are all at Onchan Community Sports Hall. ENDS