The results are in from the WAC Annual One-Day Knockout and our winner is… Alan Kimber!

From a large turnout of 32 archers, Ricky Gamble was runner up and Lewis Bayly placed as highest Junior. Well done everyone that took part!

On Wednesday 10th June a small band of merry men, Olga Sokolovskaya, Rod Hardy, Alan and myself (Helen Ruffle) took time out from our busy schedules to attend the Take a Break shoot at Guildford Archery Club.

It was cold and windy but we warmed up slightly after lovely hot bacon sandwiches were provided! The weather didn’t get much better throughout the day but we all persevered.

Alan and Rod shot well but had some stiff competition. Olga won the Ladies Barebow Windsor round and I won the Ladies Recurve Windsor round. I also shot my first ever 6 gold end even if it was only at 40yds!

Olga and I both received a beautiful chrysanthemum each – Alan received two kisses!

It may only be just past the end of May but our new RO Phil Embury is already exhausted with this lot! Well done everyone:

Woodgate Chris      Albion  Compound Gentlemen U18  936  County record (2009)
Ruffle Ed                 Bristol II   Barebow Gentlemen U18  599  County record
Piper Louisa            Bristol IV  Recurve Ladies U12  1228  County record (1983)
Matthews Luke        Hereford  Barebow Gentlemen 855
Olga Sokolovshaya Hereford   Barebow  Ladies 440
Piper Eleanor           Hereford   Recurve  LadiesU18 1050
Gamble Leo            Jnr Warwick Recurve Gentlemen U16 321
James Sammie       Jnr Windsor Compound Ladies 469
Embury Danny        Jnr Windsor Compound Gentlemen U14 892  County record
James Sammie       Long Metric IV Compound Ladies 209
Woodgate James    Metric II  Recurve  Gentlemen U14 1142
Woodgate James    Metric III Recurve  Gentlemen U14 1241
Piper Louisa            Metric IV Recurve  Ladies U14 1314  County record
Ruffle Ed                 National  Barebow  Gentlemen U18 244
James Sammie       Short Jnr Nat Compound Ladies 496
Embury Abi             Short Jnr Windsor Compound Ladies U12  800 County record
Bristow Manon        Short Warwick Recurve    Ladies U14 278
Lawrence Tuck Jane Short Windsor Compound   Ladies 956 County record
Wilson Angus          St George  Barebow Gentlemen 491
McArdle Sean         St George Longbow  Gentlemen 203
Miles Ruth               St George Longbow  Ladies 79
Piper Louisa            WA 60m Recurve Ladies U14 505
Piper Eleanor          WA 60m Recurve Ladies U18  629  County record
Piper Eleanor          WA 70m Recurve Ladies U18 521
Piper Eleanor          WA Ladies Recurve Ladies U181168
Mott Chris                Windsor  Compound  Gentlemen  970  County record (2007)
Woodgate James    Windsor Recurve Gentlemen U14 856
Ruffle Ed                  Windsor  Barebow  Gentlemen U18 473
Tuck Matthew          York Compound  Gentlemen 1236
Woodgate Chris       York  Compoun Gentlemen U18 1210  County record (1990)

And there are also some new classifications just in:

Tuck Matthew   Gents Compound Master Bowman
Piper Louisa      Ladies U14 Recurve Junior Master Bowman
Embury Danny  Gents U14 Compound Junior Bowman
Davies Alex       Ladies U14 Recurve Junior Bowman

Eleanor Piper put in a knockout performance at the Evesham Spring Shoot last weekend. Shooting the International Cadet 60m 720 round she topped the table for the double round by almost 100 points.

Her first round score of 629 beat Bryony Pitman’s National Record from 2014 and she almost then repeated the feat with a 624 second round score. Great shooting Nell!

James Woodgate set out to Brighton Bowmen’s 1st Spring Tournament to shoot his 1st RS Double 60m Cadet Round with following H2H match. It was a lovely setting on a school playing field in Rottingdean with views to the sea behind the archers. The wind was a little tricky at times, nothing more than you’d expect being that close to the sea, but thankfully it was dry all day (although very cold if you were a spectator!).

Shooting above his age group, James shot really well and was rewarded with 556 in the morning followed by 544 in the afternoon. Not many cadet boys were there but they still ran the H2H and James won his first match, moving from up from 3rd to 2nd, and made a very strong challenge in the final taking his opponent to the very last set.

He’ll be going back there for more, hopefully in August!

This season Louisa was determined to have fun by making sure that she shot at all the great local Junior tournaments that we have on offer in the area. Her plan kicked off with a visit to “The Lintman” which, along with “The Little Acorn”, was one of the first tournaments she ever took part in. Non-RS, is it an excellent beginner’s tournament with “Colour Spot Prizes” i.e. circles in each of the coloured rings which align with chocolate prizes (none of which Louisa won) and a “Best Gold” and “Worst White” spot prize too (neither of which she won either).

Louisa was though fortunate enough to win Top Junior Lady with a SJ Western score of 832.

Please do put it on your calendar for next year and see if you can win more chocolate than Louisa – Andrew Seale did as well as winning the U16 Gents Western class!

Earlier in the month Louisa ventured a little further afield to compete in the Bowmen of Glen (Leicester) RS Rose Tournament on 10th May. Shooting 1228 on a Bristol 4 she claimed the Surrey County Record that has stood for 32 years!

And finally, at the Middlesex on BH Monday, she shot this 3 arrow end at 10m on her way to a Metric 4 Club Record of 1314!

Wisley will be composting on the following Tues 26th to Thursday 28th May

The field will be closed until 4.30pm on these days.

Well done to all the Woking Archers who took part in the Southern Counties Archery Meeting. Lovely weather on Wednesday, the opposite can be said for Thursday. Still great results with Surrey County Archery winning the team (made up of Richard Fitzgerald from Guildford Archery Club along with Mark, Paul and Roy from Woking), Woking winning the club team (Mark, Paul Roy and Candy), Matt Tuck taking 2nd place in the compound, Candy Schofield 2nd in the Ladies Recurve and Mark Preston 3rd in the gents Recurve.

This is a lovely, rather more relaxed shoot than most; everyone having a great time.

Thanks to Farnham Archery Club for being great hosts for the FLAG shoot today, they even managed to sort some great weather.

Well done to all the Woking Archers that took part.

Results

Based on unhandicapped score
Junior Windsor:
Compound Winner Danny Embery
Recurve Boy 3rd place Lewis Bayly
Recurve Girl 2nd place Alex Davies
Albion Gents:
Recurve Winner Paul Jay, 3rd place Roy Watts
Barebow Winner Place Angus
Comp Winner
Harvey Davies,
2nd place Chris Mott,
3rd place Chris Woodgate
Windsor
Recurve Winner James Woodgate
Ladies Longbow/Barebow Sue Woodgate 2nd place

Results based on handicap

Junior Winner Abi Embery

Team placing after the 1st leg of the FLAG based on handicap:
Albion
1 – Farnham
2 – Guildford
3 – Woking
4 – Alton and Four Marks

Windsor
1 Farnham
2 Guildford
3 Alton
4 Woking (3 members)

And last but not least well done to Angus Wilson for winning the Blue colour prize

Just a quick reminder that we are hosting the Surrey training at the field on Saturday May 16th. Surrey will use the left hand end of the field and will need 7 targets.

At the right hand end of the field there will be a beginners course in the morning. Please therefore be aware that space may be restricted and it is likely that the whole field may need to shoot on one whistle for safety.

We appreciate your support in helping this training session run smoothly for the Surrey archers.

Please also note that the newly seeded area will be off limits until the end of May, making our range smaller than usual, but we will all benefit from the improvements to the field that took place over the winter months very soon. Thank you to everyone who helped make them happen.