Excellent scores at the Stadium, Castletown
Castletown hosted their near neighbours, Port St Mary on Monday match night and the visiting team produced terrific scores to leave winners in all three Divisions. Top shot for the home team went to Nigel Christian who recorded their only 98 on the night. Shirley Caley and Lauren Cooper hit 96 to help the team to a score of 477. For the ‘Port, Ashley Gardner (Snr) posted a 99 with Kevan Kneale, Ean Brewis, Ashley Gardner (J) and another junior, Patrick Cubbon all recording 98’s – a terrific display of consistent target rifle shooting.
Castletown v Port St Mary
Division 1
Nigel Christian 98 Ashley Gardner 99
Shirley Caley (L) 96 Kevan Kneale 98
Lauren Cooper (L) 96 Ean Brewis 98
Robin McFee 94 Ashley Gardner (J) 98
Steve Gardner 93 Patrick Cubbon (J) 98
477 491
Division 2
Andy Bell 93 Callum Grant (J) 97
Henry Qualtrough 92 Gary Knight 95
John-Paul Bridson 91 Dave Bould 95
Reg Caley 88 George Dalton-Brown (J) 95
Duncan Watterson 82 Jackie Gardner (JL) 94
446 476
Division 3
Derek Kermode 94
Juan Clague 92
Peter Lewis 90
Graham Brown 85
00 Peter Gelling 82
00 443
Terrific scores at Sinclair
Sinclair Range at St Johns was the venue for the league match on Monday evening when IoMSC Sandsiders hosted their IoM Shooting Club rivals, IoMSC Douglas. The “visitors” Division 1 team produced the highest score of the season to date with 494 x 500. Recorded scores were Andy Potter hitting 100, (which matches Julian Teare’s double hundred during the season), Mike Clague and Mike Thompson both on 99 and Mike Duncalf and Nick Brown posting 98 each. Clague contested his score of 99 as he felt a 100 could be a possibility, which would be a valuable point for his individual and double hundred competitions. His card is to be marked by the competition team and if successful, he will be the third competitor in the “Double 100” match. Ironically the Douglas teams Division 2 score also beat Sandsiders Division 1 score by 9 points! The hosts were disappointed with their scores of 472 in Division 1 and 443 for Division 2. In Division 1, Bill Jones, Tony Kneale and teenager Matthew Roosen all hit 95.
IoMSC Sandsiders v IoMSC Douglas
Division 1
Bill Jones 95 Andy Potter 100
Tony Kneale 95 Mike Clague 99
Matthew Roosen (J) 95 Mike Thompson 99
Terry Green 94 Mike Duncalf 98
Richard Arthur 93 Nick Brown 98
472 494
Division 2
Andy Traynor 92 Tracey Skelton (L) 97
Norman Ormrod 91 Christian Eaton (J) 97
Chris Ollett 91 Jayde Lambert (L) 96
Phil Kneen 85 Mark Osborn 96
Ken McWaters 84 Lorrie Thompson (L) 95
443 481
Division 3
Paul Perkins 95
Keith Lowney 94
Dave Humphrey 94
Thomas Clague (J) 94
00 Sam Jones (J) 88
00 465
Additional Shooters
Arron Astill (J) 79
Kirk Michael claim valuable points against Laxey
Kirk Michael Rifle Club, who have been struggling for members of late, took some valuable points off the 2014 IoM Rifle Association Champions, Laxey, at their home match on Monday evening. A consistent series of scores in Division 1 from Kevin Quinn and David Lord on 96 and Suzanne McKnight, Tom Lord and Junior shooter, Illiam Christian all on 95 gave the home team 477 x 500 from the visitors rather disappointing score of 475. Harry Creevy, continuing his excellent season, was the highest score for Laxey on 98 with a terrific 97 from junior shooter, James Hewison to match his personal best. Kirk Michael claimed the Division 2 points in addition.
Kirk Michael v Laxey
Division 1
Kevin Quinn 96 Harry Creevy 98
David Lord 96 James Hewison (J) 97
Suzanne McKnight (L) 95 John Wood 95
Tom Lord 95 Gary Kneale 93
Illiam Christian (J) 95 Nick Kennish 92
477 475
Division 2
Perryn Callister (L) 94 Bridget Kneale (L) 90
Les Crowe 93 Judy Kee (L) 89
Alex Trafford (J) 93 Charles Clague 88
James Rosengrove (J) 89 Andrew Jessopp 85
369 352
Minor changes this week, to league positions but this will no doubt, correct itself next week when Sulby shoot their fourteenth match
Division 1
S W D L Agg Points
Sulby 13 12 0 1 6337 24
Port St Mary 14 9 2 3 6814 20
IoMSC Douglas 14 9 1 4 6831 19
Laxey 14 7 1 6 6787 15
Kirk Michael 13 5 0 8 6273 10
IoMSC Sandsiders 14 3 0 11 6722 6
Castletown 14 1 0 13 6675 2
Division 2
S W D L Agg Points
Port St Mary 14 12 0 2 6613 24
IoMSC Douglas 14 11 0 3 6650 22
Sulby 13 11 0 2 6122 22
Laxey 14 6 0 8 6077 12
Kirk Michael 13 5 0 8 5446 10
IoMSC Sandsiders 14 2 0 12 6133 4
Castletown 14 1 0 13 6231 2
Division 3
S W D L Agg Points
Port St Mary 14 12 0 2 5774 24
IoMSC Douglas 14 12 0 2 5167 24
Sulby 13 11 0 2 5748 22
Laxey 14 5 1 8 1060 11
IoMSC Sandsiders 14 3 0 11 681 6
Castletown 14 1 1 12 818 3
Kirk Michael 13 0 2 11 165 2
Dates for your Diaries
League competitions continue next Monday, March 2nd with Sulby hosting IoMSC Douglas which could possibly be a close match, Port St Mary take the long trip north to Kirk Michael and Laxey travel in the opposite direction to the Stadium, Castletown. The league is now entering its latter stages with just four more matches and the league positions appear to be altering almost weekly.
March 4th is the allocated date for the final of the 101 Challenge Cup, the IoMRA pair’s competition – more information will be available from Mike Clague on claguecpm@hotmail.com
Sunday morning March 1st will be the next Isle of Man Shooting Club Monthly Handicap, starting at 10.30 am.
