Almost a Century for Mihailovits

English Skeet Summer League, Round Four

The fourth round of the Colin Bowen Memorial English skeet league was held at Meary Veg Santon with 26 competitors taking part in near ideal conditions, which also had the Wilf Cannell Handicap cup up for grabs.

We had a four-way tie for first place after the first round with A class Paul Mihailovits and Stan Cross plus B class Brian Faragher and junior Zac Bellhouse all hitting 25 straights, with C class Andre Vishnjov next on 24, followed by five shooters on 23.

After the second round Ted Kermeen and Madalaine Simpson were in equal second place in C class with 44 points, in first place in  C was Andre Vishnjov with 47 points. We also had a tie for second place in B class between Brian Faragher and Will Rand on 47 but one point ahead in first place on 48 was junior Zac Bellhouse.

We another tie for third in A class between Rachael Bowen Matthews and Jeff Corkill with 47 points each, in second place on 49 was Stan Cross but taking A class and highgun overall was Paul Mihailovits with fifty straight.

In the handicap section for the Wilf Cannell Handicap cup Andre Vishnjov was the winner with 56 points with Sue Doyle next on 55 followed by Madalaine Simpson on 54.

16 shooters carried to complete a 100 targets and Paul Mihailovits just missed out on a 100 straight dropping a target in his last round for a 99.