The two Northern Clubs met at Sulby this week and although the Kirk Michael minnows tried hard in Division 1, the League leaders managed to take the points by just 3 shots, a terrific show from the nine man Kirk Michael team. Top score for the hosts were Mark Cain and junior, Fergus Coulter both hitting 99 with Andy Mitchell two points in arrears. The plucky Kirk Michael team was led by David Lord and junior, Illiam Christian on 98’s with Les Crowe and Kevin Quinn just a point behind
Sulby v Kirk Michael
Division 1
Mark Cain 99 David Lord 98
Fergus Coulter (J) 99 Illiam Christian (J) 98
Andy Mitchell 97 Les Crowe 97
Teddy Sayle 96 Kevin Quinn 97
Peter Faragher 96 Perryn Callister (L) 94
487 484
Division 2
Barry Jones 96 James Rosengrove (J) 94
Julian Teare 95 Tom Lord 93
Will Quayle 95 Alex Trafford (J) 91
Jess Clague (L) 94 Geoff Sayle 82
Orry Teare 93 00
473 360
Division 3
Peter Webb 93
Don Ault 91
Richard Faragher 89
Rod Forshaw 89
Jacob Duggan (J) 89 00
451 00
Additional Shooters
Jim Teare 86
Richard Farrington (J) 80
IoMSC Douglas are satisfied with their evenings work!
IoMSC Douglas welcomed Laxey to Sinclair on Monday evening and success went to the hosts in all three Divisions. A delighted Paul Perkins hit the big time and topped the Douglas team on 99 with Nick Brown, Tracey Skelton, Lorrie Thompson and junior Christian Eaton all just a point behind on 98. Laxey’s John Wood matched Perkins score, posting a 99 and another delighted shooter, Judy Kee was just a single point behind on 98.
IoMSC Douglas v Laxey
Division 1
Paul Perkins 99 John Wood 99
Nick Brown 98 Judy Kee (L) 98
Tracey Skelton (L) 98 Gary Kneale 96
Lorrie Thompson (L) 98 Suzanne Curphey (L) 95
Christian Eaton (J) 98 Stephen Curphey 95
491 483
Division 2
Mike Duncalf 98 Harry Creevy 94
Mark Osborn 97 Nick Kennish 94
Thomas Clague (J) 97 Bridget Kneale (L) 93
Andy Potter 96 Andrew Jessopp 90
Mike Clague 96 Bill Snelling 86
484 457
Division 3
Sam Jones (J) 95 Charles Clague 82
Dave Humphrey 94
Mike Thompson 94
Jayde Lambert (L) 94
Keith Lowney 92 00
469 82
IoMSC Sandsiders take all points at Castletown
Castletown hosted IoMSC Sandsiders at The Stadium and the visitors claimed the points in all three Divisions. For the visitors, Richard Arthur posted a terrific 100 followed closely by Bill Jones and Tony Kneale on 97, an excellent result for Jones as he was suffering with flu. John “doc” Brewis and Steve Gardner headed the home team on 97 with Andy Bell hitting his best score of the season to date two shots behind on 95.
Castletown v IoMSC Sandsiders
Division 1
John Brewis 97 Richard Arthur 100
Steve Gardner 97 Tony Kneale 97
Andy Bell 95 Bill Jones 97
Robin McFee 94 Andy Traynor 95
Shirley Caley (L) 93 Terry Green 95
476 484
Division 2
Henry Qualtrough 93 Ken McWaters 93
John-Paul Bridson 90 Steve Callus 91
Lauren Cooper (L) 88 Matthew Roosen (J) 89
Reg Caley 86 Chris Ollett 88
Duncan Watterson 84 Phil Kneen 87
441 448
Division 3
00 Norman Ormrod 86
00 86
League position as at January 27th.
Division 1
S W D L Agg Points
Sulby 12 11 0 1 5848 22
Port St Mary 12 7 2 3 5841 16
IoMSC Douglas 12 7 1 4 5844 15
Laxey 12 7 1 4 5828 15
Kirk Michael 12 4 0 8 5796 8
IoMSC Sandsiders 12 3 0 9 5774 6
Castletown 12 1 0 11 5721 2
Division 2
S W D L Agg Points
Port St Mary 12 10 0 2 5665 20
Sulby 12 10 0 2 5649 20
IoMSC Douglas 12 9 0 3 5695 18
Laxey 12 6 0 6 5267 12
Kirk Michael 12 4 0 8 5077 8
IoMSC Sandsiders 12 2 0 10 5341 4
Castletown 12 1 0 11 5332 2
Division 3
S W D L Agg Points
Sulby 12 10 0 2 5290 20
Port St Mary 12 10 0 2 4873 20
IoMSC Douglas 12 10 0 2 4528 20
Laxey 12 5 0 7 1060 10
IoMSC Sandsiders 12 3 0 9 681 6
Castletown 12 1 1 10 743 3
Kirk Michael 12 0 1 11 165 1
Local competition results
Mike Clague has forwarded some results of local competitions and the following should bring us all up to date.
J. B. Richie Cup (scratch competition for D class shooters) December scores –
1 –Robin McFee (CSTN) 97, 96 = 193 x 200
=2 – Steve Callus (IoMSCS) 95, 96 = 191
=2 – Barry Jones (SBY) 96, 95 = 191
4 – Teddy Sayle (SBY) 94, 95 = 189
5 – Matthew Roosen (IoMSCS) 95, 93 = 188
6 – Lorrie Thompson (IoMSCD) 94, 93 = 187
7 – Christian Eaton (IoMSCD) 92, 94 = 186
8 – Andy Mitchell (SBY) 93, 92 = 185
9 – Nicole McKnight (KM) 91, 92 = 183
10 – Sam Jones (IoMSCD) 93, 89 = 182
=11 – Rod Forshaw (SBY) 89, 92 = 181
=11 – Aaron Astill (IoMSCD) 89, 92 = 181
13 – Richard Faragher (SBY) 88, 90 = 178
14 – Paul Perkins (IoMSCD) 85, 90 = 175
15 – Charles Clague (LXY) 83, 84 = 167
16 – James Rosengrove (KM) 73, 90 = 163
G. Jones Trophy (Scratch competition for C class shooters) December scores –
1 – Mike Thompson (IoMSCD) 98, 99 = 197 x 200
2 – Perryn Callister (KM) 99, 97 = 196
=3 – Suzanne McKnight (KM) 95, 98 = 193
=3 – Andy Traynor (IoMSCS) 96, 97 = 193
=5 – Thomas Clague (IoMSCD) 95, 97 = 192
=5 – Tony Kneale (IoMSCS) 94, 98 = 192
7 – Judy Kee (LXY) 95, 96 = 191
8 –Illiam Christian (KM) 93, 97 = 190
9 –Jayde Lambert (IoMSCD) 93, 95 = 188
10 –James Hewison (LXY) 93, 94 = 187
The final of the H N Hamilton-Meikle Trophy for teams of four, took place at Laxey Rifle club on Wednesday, January 21st and the winners were Sulby Rifle Club. The knockout round was shot through December and early January. Knockout Round results were -
Castletown – Steve Gardner 97, John Brewis 95, Robin McFee 94 and Nigel Christian 69 = 355 x 400, IoMSC Douglas 1 – Mike Clague 99, Mark Osborn 98, Lorrie Thompson 95 and Tracey Skelton 94 = 386,
IoMSC Douglas 2 – Dave Humphrey 96, Mike Thompson 95, Martin Burns 94 and Aaron Astill 92 = 377,
IoMSC Douglas 3 - Nick Brown 98, Thomas Clague 95, Paul Perkins 95 and Christian Eaton 94,
Kirk Michael 1 – Les Crowe 98, Kevin Quinn 97, Suzanne McKnight 93 and David Lord 88 = 376,
Kirk Michael 2 – Illiam Christian 96, Tom Lord 96, Alex Trafford 93 and James Rosengrove 89 = 374, Sulby – Mark Cain 98, Will Quayle 97, Peter Webb 96 and Jess Clague 88.
Sulby and all three IoMSC Douglas teams went through to the semi-final and final, at Laxey Rifle Club range and the results were –
Semi -final 1 –
IOMSC Douglas 1 – Clague 95, Skelton 95, Osborn 93 and Thompson 93 = 376 x 400,
Sulby - Quayle 98, Webb 96, Cain 96 and Clague 91 = 381 – Sulby go through to the final.
Semi -final 2 –
IoMSC Douglas 3 - Eaton 98, Brown 95, Clague 95 and Perkins 93 = 381,
IoMSC Douglas 2 – Lambert 98, Humphrey 96, Thompson 94 and Astill 90 = 378,
IoMSC Douglas 3 go through.
In the final, Sulby took the win with exceptional help from Will Quayle who led the team with 99, Mark Cain 96, Peter Webb 94 and Jess Clague 93 = 382 from the IoMSC Douglas scores of Nick Brown 95, Thomas Clague 94, Paul Perkins 93 and Christian Eaton 91.
Thanks must go to Laxey Rifle Club for the use of their range, Charlie Kennish for his Range Officer duties, Brian Fozard for scoring and finally to Mike Clague for excellent organisation of the competition.
Postal results
Barry Jones has forwarded the results from the NSRA County postal competitions and round 4 of the Women’s League has the IoM in equal fourth position and scores for round 4 were –
Lorrie Thompson 98
Suzanne McKnight 96
Perryn Callister 95
Tracey Skelton 95
Liz Jones 94 = 478 x 500
Results from round 4 of the Association League shows a win for Worcestershire County on 1928 x 2000 from the IoMRA team score of 1905 –
Harry Creevy 100
John Wood 99
Mike Duncalf 98
Mike Clague 98
Nick Kennish 98
Dave Bould 97
Robin McFee 97
Kevin Quinn 96
Mark Cain 96
Bill Jones 96
Dave Humphrey 96
Richie Arthur 95
Andy Traynor 95
M. Jones 95
Ashley Gardner (J) 94
Kevan Kneale 94
Suzanne Mcknight 94
Steve Callus 94
Keith Lowney 92
Nigel Christian 81
At present, the IoM are in a lowly sixth position.
In the NSRA Junior League, the Islands youngsters are holding third position in a very tight league with just fifteen points separating the top four teams. Round 4 results were –
Fergus Coulter 96
Alex Trafford 96
Thomas Clague 94
Illiam Christian 92 = 378 x 400
beating Lothian Small-Bore Shooting Association by a single point.
Further results have come in from Bill Jones regarding the Ulster Counties Postal Leagues. In the Short range (15 yard indoor) Leagues I will list the name followed by their league position only. Division 2 – Kevan Kneale 2nd
Division 3 – Ashley Gardner (J) 9th
Division 4 – Illiam Christian 1st, Suzanne McKnight 4th, Barry Jones 5th and Derek Kermode 7th, Division 5 - Perryn Callister 2nd, Ashley Gardner (Snr) 3rd, Kevin Quinn 4th
Division 8 – Juan Clague 4th, Dave Bould 5th, Jaccie Hamilton-Jones 6th, Gary Knight 9th
Division 12 – Peter Lewis 7th, Alex Trafford 8th
Division 14 – Ronnie Fairbairn 3rd, James Rosengrove 4th, Peter Gelling 5th
Division 16 – Rod Forshaw 3rd, C. McPhillips 8th
Division 18 – Fergus Coulter 1st, Graham Brown 5th
In the junior section, the Island shooters have a couple of excellent positions in some leagues.
Division 1 – Illiam Christian 2nd, Ashley Gardner 6th
Division 2 – George Dalton-Brown 7th, Alex Trafford 6th
Division 4 - James Rosengrove 1st
Division 5 – C. McPhillips 9th
Division 6 – Fergus Coulter 1st
Finally, in the team section, Kirk Michael are the only locals competing and their “A” team is in second position in Division B and the “B” team sits on top of the pile in Division D.
Dates for your Diaries
League matches miss a week and recommence on Monday 16th February – I will list the matches next week.
PLEASE NOTE - Mike Clague has asked to remind all that the RTD Stott Handicap (2 cards), will be shot on the Sinclair range this evening, TUESDAY February 3rd and NOT the 4th as advertised. This is a “turn up on the night” event and I know the organisation, as usual will be excellent, so hopefully, it will be well supported as other recent competitions – the more the merrier.
