Mike Williams recorded yet another new PB – the continuing improvement each week is fantastic, well done! Mike’s score of 92.2 was best in D Grade this week, followed by Josh Whitehead 89.2, Hugh Guiney 88.2 and Aiden D’Souza 88.2. Anna Hooper led C Grade with 97.2 ahead of Casey Israelson 95.2 and Amalamo Simi 95.0. Top shot in B Grade was Erin Little with 98.2, and in A Grade Dianne Grain led with 98.2 also, while Evan Little’s 98.4 was best in Master Grade. The 20-shot scores were extremely close this week all being within two points, but top shot was Mark Riley with 195.11 which included a 100.8, his best single card ever – great shooting, Mark!
In the final of the round robin section of the NDC competition, Wellington were successful against top of the table Manawatu. Both the composite and junior sections won their matches quite convincingly, and Erin Little’s 100 gained Wellington an extra point, to give a total of 8 points to Manawatu’s 6 points. Unfortunately it wasn’t enough to gain Wellington a place in the semi-final, but to finish in 5th position in our first year in Division 1 is a huge success in itself. Meredith Ackrill was top scorer overall for Wellington in the competition, scoring 1484 (an average of 98.93!). This is definitely one of the best competitions on the shooting calendar and hopefully our up and coming shooters will give it a go next year.
Results from Round 2 of the Secondary Schools Shooting Champs (Triple S Champs) were emailed during the week. Congratulations to Amy Nathanson and Emily Lockery – currently the best Brooklyn C Grade and D Grade shooters respectively in this match. Round 3 targets need to be shot by Sunday 5 August. As the final round is a 20-shot round, there’ll be at least one 20-shot squad each week from 12 August to enable practice on the double card.
The National Indoor Champs are being held on Sunday 5 August. Being a Sunday, cards shot at the champs can also be counted towards the club champs – please remember to inform a senior club member before the card is shot.
Upcoming events:
- Tuesday 24 July, Round 5 interclub, all grades. C Grade, 7.45pm, 1x10. B Grade, 8.15pm, 1x10. Open Grade, 8.45pm, 1x20.
- Monday 30 July, Interassociation D Grade, 8.00pm + 8.45pm, 2x10: Chris Lockery. Manager: Evan Little.
- Monday 30 July, Interassociation B Grade, 8.15pm, 1x20: Erin Little, Anna Hooper. Manager: Evan Little.
- Saturday 4 August, Triangular B Grade, Juniors and Women, 2.00pm, 2x10, Keene Range.
- Sunday 5 August, National Indoor Champs, 1.00pm.
- Sunday 5 August, Round 3 Triple S deadline.
- Monday 6 August, Titipounamu A Grade match, 8.00pm, 1x10 + 1x20.