Kirk Michael's Alex Trafford, 18, came out top of the pile in the Isle of Man Junior championhips,
Eight young athletes competed in this year's event, held at the Sinclair Range, St John's on Sunday 26 February.
The Championship consisted of 30 shot indoor match at 15 yards, followed by a 30-shot outdoor match at 50 metres on electronic targets.
The field was dominated by athletes from Port St Mary, who fielded six out of the eight competitors.It was a close-fought contest, with little to separate them after the indoor section. More challenging was the outdoor section, with tricky weather conditions affecting all the young athletes.
Despite this, all of them put in admirable performances, especially considering a number of them were new to the outdoor discipline of 50m prone shooting. In the end, however, it was Alex who emerged victorious, to claim the top prize of 1,000 rounds of Centre-X ammunition. Second, third and fourth places went to Callum Grant, Rhys Keown and Ryan Forrest, who took away ammunition prizes of 750, 500 and 250 rounds respectively.
Isle of Man Shooting Club Indoor/Outdoor Junior Championship 2017
15 yards 50 metres
10 20 30 Total 40 50 60 Total Overall
Alex Trafford 96.0 96.0 97.0 289.0 101.5 97.1 101.3 299.9 588.9
Callum Grant 97.0 97.0 95.0 289.0 101.8 99.5 96.3 297.6 586.6
Rhys Keown 97.0 97.0 98.0 288.0 96.4 97.9 102.1 296.4 584.4
Ryan Forrest 90.0 96.0 97.0 283.0 99.0 102.1 99.9 301.0 584.0
Matthew Roosen 95.0 96.0 97.0 288.0 98.3 99.3 97.6 295.2 583.2
Isaac Heaton 97.0 98.0 91.0 286.0 94.1 89.7 97.7 281.5 567.5
Luca Salinardi 91.0 91.0 94.0 276.0 95.8 93.2 89.8 278.8 554.8
Ethan Kiernan 94.0 95.0 88.0 277.0 86.3 96.3 91.8 274.4 551.4
Round up: News from the NSRA - Inter-Counties
The Island's main team lost in Round 5 of Division 6 of the Inter-Counties competition, The disqualified card was, according to the rules, not signed/witnessed/dated correctly. A disappointment but it should be noted the team would have lost regardless and they still lead the division.
Scores: Ashley Gardner 100, Richard Arthur 99, Tracey Skelton 99, Mark Cain 99, Kevan Kneale 98, Gemma Kermode 97, Mike Duncalf 97, Eddie Maddrell 97, Nick Brown 97, Barry Jones 97, Perryn Watson 96, Fergus Coulter 96, John Wood 95, Nigel Christian 95, Suzanne McKnight 95, Bill Jones 95, David Humphrey 95, Andy Traynor 93, Robin McFee 91, Harry Creevy 0.
Junior Inter-County competition, Division 2
Isle of Man RA beat Kent by 382 to 380. The win puts them in contention at the half-way stage.
Scores: Christian Eaton 97, Sam Jones 96, Alex Trafford 95, Matthew Roosen 94
RTD Stott Handicap
Ashley Gardner won the RTD Stott handicap competition. His score of 202.6 put him top of the rankings ahead of Paul Perkins with 200.8 and Nick Brown third on 198.8
Full results from all the matches in all the divisions can be found at:
http://iomra.net/www/PAGES/Results.html
Kirk Michael, meanwhile, were sunk by a strong Alloa B performance in the STS team league.
Isle of Man Winter Indoor League
Gemma hits hundred for Laxey
Gemma Kermode came back from the British Air Championships at Bisley and helped Laxey to a welcome win over IoMSC Sandsiders at Laxey Glen with a perfect 100. Andy Traynor was the visitors' highest scorer.
Laxey IoMSC Sandsiders
100 Gemma Kermode Andy Traynor 97
96 John Wood Will Jones 96
95 Stephen Curphey Tony Kneale 93
95 Harry Creevy Matthew Roosen 92
92 Andrew Jessop Graham Wyatt 92
478 470
Sandsiders won Division 2
Perkins powers Douglas to victory
IoMSC Douglas produced a fine home win over a resilient Kirk Michael at St John's with Paul Perkins at the forefront on 99.
IoMSC Douglas Kirk Michael
99 Paul Perkins Perryn Watson 98
97 Nick Brown Suzanne McKnight 96
97 Martin Burns Alex Trafford 96
97 Christian Eaton (J) Les Crowe 95
96 Sharon Drysdale Tom Lord 94
486 479
Port St Mary see off Sulby
There were high scores aplenty on the night but 99s from Kevan Kneale and Ben Kelly set up the win for the homeside.
99 Kevan Kneale Fergus Coulter 98
99 Ben Kelly Peter Faragher 98
98 Ashley Gardner Will Quayle 96
98 Paul Clague Mark Cain 95
98 Jackie Gardner Teddy Sayle 95
492 482
There were wins in all three divisions for Port St Mary.
