Twenty aspiring sharpshooters descended on the range at St John's last Friday (16th)
Going by the name of the Andreas Rogues, the motley crew of tradesmen from Andreas amongst other places enjoyed a festive shoot as part of the Corporate League set-up.
Helped and coached by other more experienced shooters, good fun was had by all and the bragging rights awarded on the Sius Ascor electronic target set-up,
The scores were as follows after 20 match shots:
10 20 Total
David Bolton 102.5 98.1 200.6
Jay O'Rooke 93.1 94.3 187.4
Billy Howland 93.0 90.0 183.0
Darren Hope 88.3 91.4 179.7
Richard Howland 91.3 87.9 179.2
John Kneen 89.1 88.3 177.4
John Bolton 88.1 89.0 177.1
Lee Christian 89.4 87.6 177.0
Bobby Kennaugh 95.6 80.4 176.0
Mark Teare 90.4 83.0 173.4
Geoff Watson 78.8 93.1 171.9
Percy Faragher 78.2 89.9 168.1
Jimmy Allison 84.7 82.9 167.1
Richard Watson 85.8 81.3 167.1
Steve Grant 82.9 82.0 164.9
Andrew Bolton 80.4 84.5 164.9
Callum Crowe 74.7 83.0 157.7
Ryan Crowe 76.9 76.9 153.8
Billy Mcubrie 68.6 77.3 145.9
Paul Davies 70.6 70.3 140.9
Eagle-Eyed Eddie puts Port St Mary in the driving seat with nail-biting win against Sulby
It was mighty close at Sulby but Eddie Maddrell's 100 made the difference as Port St Mary won by a single point. Richard Faragher came close to the ton as well with 99 but on a night of very sound shooting from everyone in the Division 1 match it was the PSM bandwagon which rolled on.
Ben Kelly continued his recent good form with 98 while the home side notched another 98 with Will Quayle's help.
In Division 2 and 3 PSM's strength in numbers - 15 shooters turned out once again - meant Sulby were pushed aside.
Sulby Port St Mary
99 Richard Faragher Eddie Maddrell 100
98 Will Quayle Ben Kelly 98
97 Julian Teare Gary Knight 97
97 Orry Teare Derek Kermode 97
97 Andy Mitchell Jackie Gardener 97
488 489
Division 2
96 Teddy Sayle Kevan Kneale 97
95 Fergus Coulter Ashley Gardener 96
95 Mark Cain Callum Grant (J) 95
94 Peter Webb Ryan Forrest (J) 93
93 Mark Boyd Rhys Keown (J) 93
473 474
Division 3
91 Barry Jones Juan Clague 93
90 Rod Forshaw George Brown (J) 93
81 S Harvey Ean Brewis 92
Sue Keown 91
Isaac Heaton (J) 91
262 460
Kermode's ton is not quite enough to stop IOMSC Sandsiders
Commonwealth Games hopeful Gemma Kermode hit the magic 100 for Laxey to keep her coach Harry Creevy happy - just for once - but it was IOMSC Sandsiders who had the last laugh as they edged their visitors out by two points at their adopted home of the range at St John's.
A solid 98 from Matthew Roosen, supported by 97s from Bill Jones and Andy Traynor, made the difference.
IOMSC Sandsiders Laxey
98 Matthew Roosen Gemma Kermode 100
97 Bill Jones John Wood 97
97 Andy Traynor Harry Creevy 96
94 Steve Callus Stephen Curphey 96
94 Tony Kneale Bridget Kneale 89
480 478
The other match of the night was won by Sandsiders too as it was uncontested.
Division 2
94 Norman Ormerod
93 Graham Wyatt
87 Phil Kneen
274
IOMSC Douglas out of sight of Kirk Michael
It was comedy night at Kirk Michael as IOMSC Douglas powered to an easy win on this, the final match night before the festive break kicks in.
The fact that Perryn Watson shot her card wearing two sets of spectacles by mistake and Sharon Drysdale turned up with a leprechaun hat on almost took the shine off of Sam Jones's excellent 99 and Tracey Skelton's 98.
Alex Trafford was top gun for the home side with 98 using a box of borrowed Lapua Centre-X ammunition 'donated to him' for Christmas.
James Spencer also deserves credit for coping with the pressure in just his second-ever league match.
Kirk Michael IOMSC Douglas
98 Alex Trafford Sam Jones (J) 99
94 Suzanne McKnight Tracey Skelton 98
94 Perryn Watson Nick Brown 97
91 Colin Watson Martin Burns 97
66 Ian Rogerson Christian Eaton (J) 96
443 487
Douglas took the Division 2 match as well as it was uncontested.
Division 2
Sharon Drysdale 96
Mark Osborn 95
David Humphrey 93
Paul Perkins 91
James Spencer 88
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