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Thirty competitors from both clubs regrouped under blue skies last Sunday for the second half of this year’s inter-club challenge, which saw Meary Veg retaining the trophy for the second year running after some very close competition.
Continue reading “Meary Veg retain Inter-Club Trophy”The afternoon of Saturday 29th March found thirty competitors from both clubs battle it out at Meary Veg in challenging conditions, with high winds and driving rain making for some interesting targets. 50 clays each of Skeet and DTL were shot simultaneously on both ranges, and 50 Sporting followed a short break in order to make sure the targets remained fair in the building winds.
Continue reading “Strong Start for Home Team at 2025 Inter-Club Comp”The first round of the Suntera Global Sorting league was held at Meary Veg Santon in near ideal conditions.
The joint leaders after the first stand were farther and son Stan and Michael Cross with perfect 8’s. Michael cleared the second stand also to be in the lead on his own with Stan in second place on 13 followed by George Davies, Ben Stembridge and Jack Clague in equal third place with 12 points.
Continue reading “Michael pips Dad to High Gun”The second half of the 2024 Inter-Club was shot at Meary Veg this Saturday, and saw the home team lift the trophy after several hours of highly enjoyable competition.
Continue reading “Southerners Triumphant at Inter-Club Comp”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.
Continue reading “Nail Biting First Half at Inter-Club Comp”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.
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.
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.
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.
The Meary Veg Sporting GP kindly sponsored by Irene Stockil was held at Meary Veg Santon with 24 competitors taking part over a very testing course of 12 stands. Due to the very misty weather conditions the start of the shoot had to be delayed for about an hour for it to clear enough to get started.
Once shooting got under way still in misty conditions the leaders after the first round was A class Michael Cross with 39 points, in second place on 35 was junior Zac Bellhouse who also led C class. The leading B class shooter at this stage was Liam Kirkpatrick on 31, the leading lady was Corina Moffat with 28 points with the leading vet being Paul Mihailovits on 33.
After a short break the second round got under way in bright sunshine over another set of 50 targets shot over six stands and at the end of the shoot we had the following results:
Neil Parsons was the winner of A class on 65 with Dave Corlett second on 63 but we had to have a shoot off for third place between Rob Corlett and Stan Cross who both shot 61 which Stan won by one target.
In B Class Liam Kirkpatrick was first on 66 with junior Joe Faragher taking second in B on 63, but again we had a tie for third place between Will Rand and Brian Faragher which Will won 4/3. In C Class another junior Zac Bell house was first on 62 with Roman Sammer taking second place on 54 with Les Devlin third on 45. Corina Moffatt won the ladies section with 52 points with Joe Faragher taking the juniors prize on 63.
Nigel Moffatt was third overall on 71 with Paul Mihailovits taking the runners up spot with 74 points but top gun on the day by one point and winning the Will Rand high gun cup was Michael Cross with 75 points.
The leading team was Neil Parsons and Paul Mihailovits on 139 in second place on 136 was Stan and Michael Cross with Dave and Rob Corlett taking third place on 124.
In the handicap team event Roman Sammer and Mark Hepworth were the winners on 193 with juniors Olie Tobin and Joe Faragher in second place on 189 and in third place on 182 was Brian Faragher and Will Rand.
