Sulby Rifle Club hosted The N. D. Hamilton Trophy on Thursday evening and although rather low scores were attained, Port St Mary shot consistently well and overcame a normally strong Sulby team in the final. Full results were as follow:-
Semi Final
Castletown Sulby 1
Steve Gardner 94 Mark Cain 98
Martin Moore 89 Teddy Sayle 94
Nigel Christian 93 Peter Faragher 99
Henry Qualtrough 92 Jacob Duggan 87
368 378
Sulby 2 Port St Mary
Fergus Coulter 99 Ashley Gardner 96
Will Quayle 99 Jackie Gardner 97
Barry Jones 93 Gary Knight 97
Rod Forshaw 82 Eddie Maddrell 92
373 383
Final
Sulby 1 Port St Mary
Mark Cain 97 Ashley Gardner 96
Teddy Sayle 97 Jackie Gardner 94
Peter Faragher 96 Gary Knight 95
Jacob Duggan 87 Eddie Maddrell 94
374 379
Kermode romps home to two wins at the 2016 North Wales Airgun Association Championships
Gemma Kermode has had a very busy couple of weeks with competitions at the IoM Easter Shooting Festival followed by weekend at the North Wales Airgun Championships. Her results from Wales show how this experienced and very determined young lady is challenging some of the best air rifle shooters in Britain. In her first Class A competition Gemma, shooting under the title of the Laxey and District Rifle Club, thrashed the opposition with a gross score of 610.4 hitting 36 X bulls in the process. In second place, the score was separated only by X bulls with both Elizabeth Bradbury and Easter shoot regular, Zoe Bruce grossing a score of 603.9 – Bradbury had 29 X bulls and Bruce had 27.
Kermode’s series of scores were:-
102.9; 100.2; 103.2; 102.7; 102.0; 99.4 = 610.4 (36 x Bulls)
In competition 2 Class A, Zoe Bruce must have realised she had a match on her hands and improved her gross score to 609.1 and once again Gemma shot an identical score to her competition 1 score.
Her Competition 2 series were:-
102.0; 102.6; 101.5; 99.5; 101.9; 103.2 = 610.4 (32 X Bulls)
Rachel Glover hits MCS in The British Free Rifle Club at the weekend
Rachel Glover has been competing at Bisley in The British Free Rifle Club series of matches and in her first ‘English Match’ at Bisley at the weekend, the York based Manx lass managed to record a minimum consideration score for the 2018 Commonwealth Games in The Gold Coast, Australia, posting an excellent score of 616.7 which I am led to believe, could well be corrected to 617.3 later, due to some errors in administration confirmation, but to my knowledge has not been announced yet. This score gave her second place behind Stuart Hill on 617.9. Rachel also competed in the second English Match and posted a gross score of 615.0 to add to her earlier prone match.
Her series of scores were –
English Match 1,
102.8; 102.7; 101.6; 103.6; 103.5; 102.7 = 616.7
English Match 2,
102.7; 103.2; 100.6; 103.5; 102.8; 102.2 = 615.0 giving her a third position
In next week’s column, I will hopefully be in a position to give you the results from the NSRA Postal leagues.
Dates for your Diaries
Monday April 25 will see round 1 of the IoM Shooting Club Monday evening competitions with the Empire Garage Tynwald Handicap and The Osborn Carpets 600 and will run each Monday evening for eighteen weeks.
Sunday May 1 will be the next IoMSC Monthly Handicap match and The Indoor Team Championships (40 shot scratch) will run concurrently.
The Isle of Man Rifle Association’s Sinclair Cup - Teams of 2 will be held on Sunday May 29, preparation and sighting starting at 10.15 am.
For those interested in mainland competitions, The ESSU Championships will be held at Bisley Camp on April 30 – May 2.
