Category: Competition Updates

Sammer Scoops Skeet Cup

English Skeet, Round 3

The third round of the Colin Bowen Memorial English Skeet league was held at Meary Veg Santon with 18 competitors taking part in dry but blustery conditions, which also had the Wilf Cannell Handicap cup up for grabs.

The leader after the first round was C class shooter Rob Marshall with 24 points – it should have been 25 but Rob put his last cartridge in the wrong barrel! In equal second place on 23 were another C class shooter Roman Sammer, John Moore, Brian Faragher, James Simpson and Peter Kelly.

At the end of the second round we had Mark Hepworth finishing third in C class with 39 points, in second place on 44 was Rob Marshall but taking C class with 46 points was Roman Sammer. Madeleine Simpson finished in third place in B class with 35 points with George Davies taking second place on 43 but winning B class with 45 points was Brian Faragher. We had a three way tie for first place in A class with John Moore, James Simpson and Rachael Bowen Matthews all scoring 46 points.

In the battle for the handicap cup we had a clear winner in Roman Sammer with 59 points. It was good to see another new shooter taking to the stands in Tracey Hepworth who nearly beat her husband in the second round, definitely one to watch.

Results

Class A

  1. J Moore (46)
  2. J Simpson (46)
  3. R Bowen Matthews (46)

Class B

  1. B Faragher (45)
  2. G Davies (43)
  3. M Simpson (35)

Class C

  1. R Sammer (46)
  2. R Marshall (44)
  3. M Hepworth (39)

100 League

  1. J Simpson (93)
  2. R Sammer (90)
  3. R Bowen Matthews (90)

Handicap Cup

  1. R Sammer (59)
  2. R Marshall (54)
  3. B Faragher (51)

Full Results

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  3. 16 July
  4. 23 July
  5. 10 September
  6. 08 October

Next week is the forth round of the Colin Bowen Memorial English skeet league.
The entries sheet  for the Sporting GP is nearly full with only a few spaces left, entries will be closing soon!

Shoot-offs and Medals for Mihailovits and Watterson

English Skeet Individual – Open

Paul Mihailovits followed a trio of 24s yesterday with another 24 and a 21 today under challenging conditions, taking him through to the final where he drew with Ynys Môn’s David Tavernor, necessitating a shoot-off.

Following sudden death of pairs on pad four Paul unfortunately missed the high bird, conceding gold to Ynys Môn and walking away with a well deserved silver medal and 140 points on the last day of the 2023 Island Games.

Rachel Bowen Matthews too found her form and made the final, where she scored 19 points placing her in fifth place amongst a field of 19 tough competitors – well done Rachel and Paul!

ABT Individual – Men

Shoot-offs were the order of the day for our Automatic Ball Trap competitors too, and although Mark Riley and Rob Watterson would both make the final it was Watterson who went on to claim bronze after going head-to-head with Sark’s Nicholas Dewe in a nail-biting finale.

This was the last bout for our clay-popping athletes in the 2023 Island Games, rounding off a week of highs and lows, of fun and friendship that’ll probably last longer than Jack’s sunburn. Cheers!

Full Results

Sporting Boys Bring Home Bronze

English Sporting Teams – Men

The English Sporting team consisting of Alan Kinrade, Stan Cross and Micheal Cross secured Bronze with a score of 158 in the mens team event today, just 5 points behind Guernsey over a course of 100 challenging targets.

Alan Kinrade, Stan Cross, Micheal Cross take third in Men’s Sporting Teams

Missing out on third by 9 points were Paul Mihailovits and Rachel Bowen Matthews, whose score of 168 saw them in fourth place behind Ynys Môn in the English Skeet Team Open.

Meanwhile Mark Riley and Robert Watterson finished the ABT Mens Team event in eighth place on 136, just one point behind Åland and Western Isles, and two points behind Orkney.

Full Results

Davis and Riley just Shy of Final

Olympic Skeet & Trap

Ted Davis and Mark Riley each finished in seventh place during today’s Olympic Skeet and Olympic Trap disciplines with 92 and 97 points respectively.

Meanwhile Giulio Fabrizio bagged 82 for 12th place in the Olympic Skeet, and Rob Watterson scored 93 to finish 11th. Both disciplines enjoyed difficult targets thanks to high winds and awkward light towards the end of the day on Guernsey’s west coast.

Full Results

Father and Son in Kneen Shoot-Off

Men’s Sport Trap

Marty and Jack Kneen joined Isle of Wight’s Mark Downer and Jersey’s Greg Sanderson in joint third on 81 points, necessitating a shoot-off which saw Marty finish one point ahead of Jack to claim the bronze in Men’s Sport Trap at Mont Herault.

2023 Island Games Sport Trap: W Rand, N Barnett, M Kneen, J Kneen

Meanwhile at the Portinfer range, some tough targets saw Ted Davis finish in 10th place in Olympic Skeet with 51, two places ahead of Giulio Fabrizio on 47.

Mark Riley and Rob Watterson ended their day of Olympic Trap neck-and-neck with Faroe’s Finn Ludvig on 57. Both disciplines consisted of 75 targets today, leaving 50 targets to go before the final.

Women’s Sport Trap saw Nicky Barnett finish in 5th place with 58 points, just six targets shy of a medal in her first Island Games – well done Nicky!

Full Results