This week the Manx weather forced archers to have a short metric instead of the scheduled Fita round due to the strong winds. The round had to be cut due to a safety issue with only six archer shooting this round as other archers were off Island competing, on holiday or being sub-contracted out to another sport that was on that same weekend.
Congratulations to Aalin George who was competing in Porec, Croatia in the European Junior Cup and along with her team mates Daisy Clark and Marsie Henderson-Hirst who were runners-up in the cadet women's division, losing their final to host nation Croatia 224-217 and came home with silver.
Back home for the compound division target size have changed this season to only have a five scoring zone from 10 – 6 so all archers achieve personal best in the gents compound. Peter Mumford and Colin Moore put in yet another great battle only for Mumford to have a slender four point lead at the halfway stage. Moore tried to overhaul the deficit only Mumford push on and edged out a further fifteen point to extend his lead to nineteen points at the end.
In the ladies compound division Sarah Rigby showed yet another dominant display of archery to put in a twenty point advantage over Joy Gough after the third dozen which put Gough at a slight disadvantage that she just couldn’t pull back. In the gents recurve father and son David and Rhys Moore did battle with the David taking the upper hand over his son and showed a dominant display at the end Rhys said “ If I let him win I get a better allowance and the home life is easier”.
Gents Compound
Peter Mumford 71 34 9 654 PB
Colin Moore 71 25 9 635 PB
Ladies Compound
Sarah Rigby 72 30 10 665 PB
Joy Gough 71 22 9 638 PB
Gents Recurve
Dave Moore 71 13 3 525 PB
Rhys Moore 59 3 2 371 PB
This week see’s the clubs AGM and indoor presentation at the Cat with no Tail this Friday 7:30pm. Next week will be a double Fita 70 / 50 the 70 meter will be for the recurve and the 50 is for the compounds. There will be shorter distances for the juniors and the less experienced archer and as always these will be held at Ronaldsway sports fields with field set up being 9:30am for 10:30.
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