Kneen in Front for Sport Trap

Sport Trap Manx Championship

The IOM Sport Trap Championship was held at Meary Veg Santon and kindly sponsored by Sadler Agricultural Supplies as well as Pro Fab Wielding and Top Spec Fencing.

The leader after the first round was George Davies with a perfect 25 straight, in equal second place on 24 were Marty Kneen and John Moore with Alan Wade next on 23 followed by Alan Kinrade and Neil Parsons on 22. Marty Kneen took the lead after round two on 47 points, Alan Wade was in second place now on 45 with George Davies and Alan Kinrade next on 43. Kneen stretched his lead after round three to five adding another 23 to his total for making 70 points, Alan Wade was still in second place on 65 with Alan Kinrade and Michael Cross now in equal third place on 64 followed by Paul Mihailovits on 63.

After the forth and final round junior Zac Bellhouse shooting his first Sport trap competition finished in second place in C class with 66 points with Paul Mihailovits taking C class on 85. Stan Cross was second in B class with 77 points but taking B class with 81 points was George Davies. Neil Parsons was second in A class on 84 but we had to have a shot off for third overall between the two Alan’s Kinrade and Wade both scoring 87 and it was Kinrade who was third overall on 87+21 with Wade taking A class with 87+19, in second place overall was Michael Cross with 88 points but winning in style with a 25 straight in his last round was Marty Kneen with a final total on 95.

Results

High Gun

  1. M Kneen
    (24, 23, 23, 25 = 95)
  2. M Cross
    (21, 20, 23, 24 = 88)
  3. A Kinrade
    (22, 21, 21, 23 = 87 + 21)

Class A

  1. A Wade
    (23, 22, 20, 22 = 87 + 19)
  2. N Parsons
    (22, 18, 20, 24 = 84)
  3. M Riley
    (20, 18, 22, 20 = 80)

Class B

  1. G Davies
    (25, 18, 17, 21 = 81)
  2. S Cross
    (20, 17, 18, 22 = 77)

Class C

  1. P Mihailovits
    (20, 22, 21, 22 = 85)
  2. Z Bellhouse (J)
    (13, 15, 18, 20 = 66)
  3. A Wade (J)
    (21, 13, 12, 17 = 63)

Next week is the fifth round of the Tower Insurance DTL at 10am with the fifth rounds of the Manx petroleum’s Olympic Skeet and the Sadler Agricultural Supplies ABT leagues in the afternoons. Duty officers this week are J Moore and M Barnett.