The fifth round of the Colin Bowen Memorial English Skeet league was held at Meary Veg Santon with 21 competitors taking part in dull overcast conditions which also had the Cesar Leonetti Handicap cup up for grabs. The joint leaders after the first round were Jeff Corkill and Rachael Bowen Matthews with perfect 25 straights ,in joint third place on 24 were junior Joe Faragher, Paul Mihailovits and Roman Sammer followed by Will Rand ,Dave Corlett, Stan Cross and Les Devlin on 23. At the end of the second round we had the following results ,third place in C class went to Ted Kermeen with 42points and in equal first place with 43 points were Madalaine Simpson and Giulio Fabrizio. We also had a tie for third place in B class between Peter Kelly and Mark Hepworth who both scored 45, Mark hitting his maiden 25 straight in his second round ,but tying for first place with 46 points each were Dave Corlett and Will Rand. In A class we had another tie for second place between Rachael Bowen Matthews and Roman Sammer on 48 but taking first place in A with 49 points was Jeff Corkill.
In the battle for the Cesar Leonetti Handicap cup it was another tight affair with Jeff Corkill, Mark Hepworth and Madalaine Simpson tying for second place on 53 points but the winner of the Cesar Leonetti handicap cup was his grandson Giulio Fabrizio with 55 points.
12 shooters carried on to shoot 100 targets and once again Jeff Corkill was high gun along with Roman Sammer on 96, in third place on 94 was Paul Mihailovits with Rachael Bowen Matthews taking forth place on 93 followed by John Moore on 91 and making up the top six was Dave Corlett on 88.
