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Summer DTL Victory for Ward

Summer DTL League, Round Six

The sixth and final round of the Tower Insurance DTL league was held at Meary Veg Santo in extremely windy conditions.

The leader after the first round was Phil Ward with a 23/68 round with B class John Moore in second place on 22/65 followed by Mike walker 21/61 and Stan Cross 22/61 in equal third place. After a short break the second round got under way in even windier conditions and at the end, we had Will Rand in third place in C class on 30/89 , with Mike Whitehead taking second place with 34/101 but winning C class with 117/42 was Stan Cross. Brian Faragher was second in B on 40/116 with John Moore in first place in B as well as high Gun over all on 47/139 ,John even hit a straight in his second round . Mike walker was third in a class on 42/121 with Peter Kelly taking second place with 42/122 and in first place in A was Phil Ward on 45/133.

Results

Class A

P Ward (133)
P Kelly (122)
M Walker (121)

Class B

J Moore (139)
B Faragher (116)

Class C

S Cross (117)
M Whitehead (101)
W Rand (89)

League

Olympic Skeet League, Round Six

In the afternoon the sixth round of the Manx Petroleum’s Olympic skeet league was held again in very windy conditions and the winner was Giulio Fabrizio with 33 points with Michael Cross in second place on 32 followed by Brian Faragher and Jeff Corkill in equal third place on 31.

Results

Overall

G Fabrizio (33)
M Cross (32)
B Faragher (31)
J Corkill (31)

League

Summer ABT League, Round Six

The sixth and final round of the Sadler Agricultural Supplies ABT league was also held and the winner was Steven Craine on 31 with Phil Ward in second place and Peter Kelly in third place .

Next week is the sixth and final round of the Dave and Pam Corlett Pro Sporting league which is also the final summer league shoot of the year .

Results

Overall

S Craine (31)
P Ward (29)
P Kelly (17)

League

Nail Biting First Half at Inter-Club Comp

The Ayres, 19 October

The first half of the 2024 Inter-Club All-Rounder was shot at Blue Point this Saturday, and saw thirty competitors from both clubs take to the stands in near perfect conditions.

English Skeet, DTL, and English Sporting were chosen to showcase not only the outstanding talent within both clubs but also the first-rate facilities, and to make scoring easier across all three disciplines we settled on three points awarded for all targets hit, with second-barrel DTL kills being the exception and netting two points.

Two Barrels of Summer Sporting

English Sporting Summer League, Round 6

The sixth and final round of the Suntera Global English sporting league was held at Meary Veg Santon with 27 competitors taking part in near ideal conditions.

We had a three way tie for first place after the first stand with Michael Cross, Brian Faragher and George Davies all scoring 9. Faragher was in the lead on his own after stand two with 19 points, hitting all ten targets to lead by one from Davies and Cross on 18 with the two Daves, Clague and Corlett along with Stan Cross next on 17.

Faragher increased his lead to two points, after stand three hitting all ten targets again to have a running total of 29 to Cross’s 27 in second place with the two Daves Corlett and Clague in equal third place on 26. There was no change after stand four with Faragher first on 37 but only by one now from Cross on 36 followed by Corlett and Clague on 35 with Will Rand now next on 34.

The fifth and last stand again saw no change with B class Brian Faragher taking the high gun and B class with a very good score of 47 one ahead of Michael Cross who won A class with 46. Followed by the two Daves Corlett and Clague in equal second place in A on 45. We had a three-way tie for second place in B class between George Davies, Will Rand and John Moore all hitting 43.

In C class Mark Hepworth was first with 37 followed by lady shooter Nicky Barnett in second place on 35 with another three-way tie for third place between Jon Williams, Ed Rixon and junior Zac Bellhouse all with 33 points.

Results

Class A

M Cross (46)
D Clague (45)
D Corlett (45)

Class B

B Faragher (47)
J Moore (43)
G Davies (43)
W Rand (43)

Class C

M Hepworth (37)
N Barnett (35)
J Williams (33)
E Rixon (33)
Z Bellhouse (J)(33)

League

Ballaneven Side-by-Side Championship

In the afternoon the Ballanevin Side by Sided championship was held kindly sponsored by John and Richard Kneen. A record entry of 25 split into five squads with gun sharing at a premium.

Shot over a similar course to the morning shoot of five stands we had some interesting results of note, including Brian Faragher the morning winner getting beat with his own gun by lady shooter Nicky Barnett.

In sixth place on 39 was junior Joe Faragher with Glen Shimmin in fifth place on 39 also, Mark Barnett was in fourth place on 40 who shared his gun with Joe Washington, in third place was Rob Corlett who borrowed his dad’s gun (Dave) and scored 42, we had another combo of father and son sharing a gun in Steven and Calum Craine, with Steven taking second place with 43 points but winning the shoot with 44 points was another past winner in Richard Kneen.

Results

R Kneen (44)
S Craine (43)
R Corlett (42)
M Barnett (40)
G Shimmin (39)
J Faragher (J)(39)

P Kelly, S Craine, K Goldsmith, N Barnett, J Faragher, C Craine, J Kneen, S Doyle, R Corlett, E Rixon, D Corlett, R Kneen, W Rand, M Hepworth, Faragher, B Stembridge, J Washington, G Shimmin, J Moore, A Hayes

Rachel Leads Summer Skeet

The sixth and final round of the Colin Bowen Memeorial English skeet league was held at Meary Veg Santon with 20 competitors taking part in dull damp conditions.

The leader after the first round was Rachael Bowen Matthews with a perfect 25 straight closely followed by Paul Mihailovits, James Simpson and C class shooter Ted Kermeen on 24. After the second round in C class we had a tie for third place between Madelaine Simpson and Andre Vishnjov on 42, we also had a tie for first place between Ted Kermeen and Giulio Fabrizio with 43 points each.

In B class junior Zac Bellhouse was in third place on 43 with another junior Joe Faragher taking second place on 45 but winning B class with 47 points was Mark Hepworth. In A class we had another tie this time for second place between James Simpson and Roman Sammer on 47 points but winning with 49 points was Rachel Bowen Matthews.

Results

Class A

R Bowen Matthews (49)
R Sammer (47)
J Simpson (47)

Class B

M Hepworth (47)
J Faragher (45)
Z Bellhouse (J) (43)

Class C

G Fabrizio (43)
T Kermeen (43)
M Simpson (23)
A Vishnjov (42)

League

Cross Breezes to the Top

Pro Sporting Summer League, Round Five

The fifth round of the Dave and Pam Corlett Pro-sporting league was held at Meary Veg Santon with 26 competitors taking part in dry cold and windy conditions.

The leader after the first layout was Peter Kelly with a fine score of 24 out of 25 , in second place on 22 was Michael Cross with George Davies, Paul Mihailovits and junior Joe Faragher on 20 followed by Brian Faragher in sixth place on 19 .The leading lady at this stage was Jennie Robertson on 16.

With the wind increasing for the second round making the targets duck and dive it paid to be in the early squad.

Jennie Robertson finished in third place in C class with 29 points with Mark Hepworth taking second place on 35 but winning C class with 37 points was Mark Corrin. Junior Zac Bellhouse was third in B class on 37 with Brian Faragher in second place on 38 and taking B class with 40 points was George Davies. We had a tie for third place in A class between junior Joe Faragher and super Vet Paul Mihailovits both with 40 points, in second place on 39 was Peter Kelly but top of the class with 42 points was Michael Cross.