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.

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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

  1. M Cross (46)
  2. D Clague (45)
  3. D Corlett (45)

Class B

  1. B Faragher (47)
  2. J Moore (43)
  3. G Davies (43)
  4. W Rand (43)

Class C

  1. M Hepworth (37)
  2. N Barnett (35)
  3. J Williams (33)
  4. E Rixon (33)
  5. Z Bellhouse (J)(33)

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

  1. R Kneen (44)
  2. S Craine (43)
  3. R Corlett (42)
  4. M Barnett (40)
  5. G Shimmin (39)
  6. 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

Kelly Leads the Way

English Sporting Summer League, Round 5

The fifth round of the Suntera Global English Sporting league was held at Meary Veg Santon with 26 competitors talking part in dry but overcast conditions.

The leader after the first stand were George Davies and Peter Kelly with perfect 10’s with Mark Corrin and Mark Sweetman in third place on 9 followed by junior Zac Bellhouse and Mark Barnett on 8. We had a new leader after stand two in Mark Corrin with 17 points with George Davies in second place on 16 closely followed by Peter Kelly in third place on 15. We had joint leaders after stand three with Kelly and Corrin both on 24 with Mark Barnett now in third place on 23. Kelly was in the lead on his own after stand four on 33 with Corrin, Barnett and John Taylor now in equal second place on 30 with Bellhouse next on 29.

After the fifth and last stand we had the following results, in C class in equal third place were are lady shooter Sue Doyle and Nicky Barnett on 27, in second place on 32 was Mark Hepworth with Zac Bellhouse taking C class with 39 points. We also had a tie for third place in B class between Will Rand and Liam Kirkpatrick on 34 with George Davies taking second place on 37 but winning B class with 39 points was Mark Corrin. The ties just kept coming as we had a three-way tie for third place in A class between Paul Mihailovits, Dave Corlett and Mark Barnett on 38 points, in second place on 40 points was newcomer John Taylor but winning A class and also high gun on the day was Peter Kelly with 41 points.

Results

Class A

  1. P Kelly (41)
  2. J Taylor (40)
  3. M Barnett (38)
  4. D Corlett (38)
  5. P Mihailovits (38)

Class B

  1. M Corrin (39)
  2. G Davies (37)
  3. L Kirkpatrick (34)
  4. W Rand (34)

Class C

  1. Z Bellhouse (J)(39)
  2. M Hepworth (32)
  3. N Barnett (L)(27)
  4. S Doyle (L)(27)
P Kelly, M Hepworth, Z Bellhouse, S Doyle, M Barnett, D Corlett, J Taylor, L Kirkpatrick, P Mihailovits

Mihailovits All-Round Champion

The club all round championship sponsored by Paul’s Gun Stocks was held at Meary Veg Santon in dry sunny conditions held over five disciplines.

The leader after the English skeet were Paul Mihailovits, Jeff Corkill, John Moor and junior Zac Bellhouse all with 72 points. After the next discipline, DTL Paul Mihailovits was in the lead on his own with 144 points with junior Zac Bellhouse in second place on 137 followed by John Moore in third place on 134.

Mihailovits was still in the lead after the ABT on 198 but we had Michael Cross in second place now on 191 with Peter Kelly , third on 189. Olympic skeet was next and we had a new leader in Michael Cross on 251 with Paul Mihailovits in second place on 246 with Zac Bellhouse in third place on 245 followed by Brian Faragher in forth place on 241.

The final discipline was sporting, and we had a complete turnaround for the final positions. In sixth place overall was junior Zac Bellhouse with 278 points, fifth place went to Brian Faragher on 280 with Stan Cross taking forth place on 287, one point ahead in third place was Peter Kelly on 288, runner up with 302 points was Michael Cross but winning the Club All Round Championship with 312 points was Paul Mihailovits, well shot Paul.

Results

High Gun

  1. P Mihailovits (312)

Class A

  1. M Cross (302)
  2. P Kelly (288)
  3. J Moore (272)

Class B

  1. S Cross (287)
  2. B Faragher (280)
  3. Z Bellhouse (J)(278)

Class C

  1. A Vishnjov (208)
  2. M Whitehead (181)