The first round of the Utopia Hair Salon Winter Series English Skeet League was held at Meary Veg, Santon, with 15 competitors taking part in very changeable conditions.
In the first round pad one and two proved very difficult with the sun directly shining into the shooters faces but junior Joe Faragher proved that wrong by scoring 24 points only missing on station six to lead from Dave Corlett on 23 in second place with Will Rand, John Moore and B class shooter George Davies in equal third place on 22. We had two new shooters making their league debut in Roman Sammer and Mark Hepworth who both shot 18 in their first round. The leading C class shooter was Chris Workman on 20.
After a short break the second round got underway but this time the shooters had a very strong wind to content with making the targets very unpredictable but at the end of the round we had the following results. In C Class Rob Marshall and Chris Workman were the winners on 39 points with Barry Jones taking third place on 33. George Davies was the lone shooter in B class on 41. In A Class Paul Mihailovits was in third place on 43 with Paul managing to hit a straight in his second round, in second place on 44 was Will Rand but taking first place and overall high gun was junior Joe Faragher – done Joe.
Results
Class A
J Faragher (J) (47)
W Rand (44)
P Mihailovits (43)
Class B
G Davies (41)
Class C
R Marshall (39)
C Workman (39)
B Jones (33)
P Mihailovits, W Rand, J Faragher, G Davies, B Jones, R Marshall
The sixth and final round of the Colin Bowen Memorial English skeet league was held at Meary Veg Santon with sixteen competitors taking part in dull, dry but breezy conditions.
The leader after the first round was junior shooter Joe Faragher with a 25 straight, which proved to be the only straight shot on the day. In second place on 24 were Jeff Corkill, Will Rand and Dave Corlett followed by Peter Kelly and Stan Cross on 22. We also had two new shooters taking part in Ramon Sammer and John Gaydon with both of them hitting more than half their targets.
After a short break the second round got under way Dave Morgan finished in third place in C class with 38 points, in second place on 39 was junior Zac Bellhouse with Rob Marshall taking first place on 40. In B Class Peter Fabrizio was the winner on 31. In A class we had a five way tie for second place between Peter Kelly John Moore, Jeff Corkill, Will Rand and Dave Corlett all with 45 points but the winner was the first round leader junior Joe Faragher on 47.
Results
Class A
J Faragher (J) (25, 22 = 47)
P Kelly (22, 23 = 45)
J Moore (21, 24 = 45)
J Corkill (24, 21 = 45)
W Rand (24, 21 = 45)
D Corlett (21, 24 = 45)
Class B
P Fabrizio (15, 16 = 31)
Class C
R Marshall (19, 21 = 40)
Z Bellhouse (J) (21, 18 = 39)
D Morgan (18, 18 = 36)
W Rand, Z Bellhouse, J Corkill, J Faragher, D Morgan, J Moore, P Fabrizio, D Corlett, R Marshall
Next week is the last round of the Suntera Sporting League in the morning and the last round of the Dave and Pam Corlett Pro Sporting League in the afternoon.
The fifth round of the Colin Bowen Memorial English Skeet League league was held at Meary Veg Santon with 18 competitors taking part in dry hot sunny conditions, which also had the Cesar Leonetti Handicap cup up for grabs.
The joint leaders after the first round were Chairman Peter Kelly, vice Chairman Will Rand and Jeff Corkill with 24 points. In equal forth place were Paul Mihailovits and C class shooter Zac Bellhouse on 23 and making up the top six were John Moore, Madeleine Simpson and Brian Faragher on 22. We also had two shooters making their league debut in Daniel Zorab and John Gaydon who both shot well to record 16 and 14 respectively.
After the second round Brian Kelly and Rob Marshall finished in equal second place in C class with 41 points but taking C class with 48 points was junior Zac Bellhouse who recorded his first 25 straight in his second round – well done Zac! In B class Irene Stockil was in third place with 41 points with Brian Faragher taking second place with 43 points but taking first place in B was Madeleine Simpson with 44 points. Paul Mihailovits and Jeff Corkill were in equal third place in A class with 47 points with Will Rand taking second place on 48 but taking the highgun and A class with 49 points was Peter Kelly.
In the handicap section for the Cesar Leonetti Handicap cup Wayne Barsby was the run away winner with 64 points. Six shooters carried on to complete a 100 targets and Paul Mihailovits was top gun on 97 with Jeff Corkill second on 94 and John Moore third on 91.
Results
Class A
P Kelly (24, 25 = 49)
W Rand (24, 24 = 48)
P Mihailovits (23, 24 = 47)
J Corkill (24, 23 = 47)
Class B
M Simpson (L) (22, 22 = 44)
B Faragher (22, 21 = 43)
I Stockil (L) (21, 20 = 41)
Class C
Z Bellhouse (J) (23, 25 = 48)
B Kelly (18, 23 = 41)
R Marshall (21, 20 = 41)
Handicap
W Barsby (38 + 26 = 64)
Z Bellhouse (J) (48 + 12 = 60)
B Kelly (41 + 15 = 56)
Next week is the IOM Sport Trap Championship sponsored by Sadler Agricultural Supplies. Duty Officers this week are D Corlett & M Parr.
English Skeet (5) Winners: P Kelly, W Rand, J Corkill, W Barsby, R Marshall, P Mihailovits, B Kelly, Z Bellhouse, I Stockil, M Simpson
The IOM Clay Pigeon Shooting Club held their All Round Club Championship kindly sponsored by Manx Petroleum at Meary Veg, Santon, in very changeable conditions.
The leader after the first two disciplines English Skeet and DTL was Mark Barnett with 142 points, in equal second place on 137 were John Moore and junior Joe Faragher followed by Peter Kelly in fourth place on 136. In fifth place on 134 was Brian Faragher and making up the top six was Stan Cross on 132. Joe Faragher and John Moore had straights in English skeet while Mark Barnett was the only one in DTL to have a straight.
After the next two disciplines ABT and Olympic Skeet John Moore had forged a commanding lead going into the sporting section scoring 66 in Olympic skeet to have a running total of 254 to Stan Cross’s 246 in second place with Mark Barnett and Peter Kelly in equal third place on 244 followed by Brian Faragher in fifth place on 227 and making up the top six was Giulio Fabrizio on 220.
The final discipline was sporting and Mark Barnett had a complete melt down only scoring 30 points to finish in sixth place with Giulio Fabrizio on 274 points. In fourth place on 278 points was Brian Faragher with Stan Cross taking third place on 294 points. Peter Kelly finished the runner up breaking the 300 barrier scoring 301 points but the Champion on the day was John Moore who finished in style, being the only one to clean the last stand of the sporting to take the title by 16 points with a final winning total of 317 – well done John!
John was also veteran champion with Allana Wade taking the honours in the ladies section. Joe Faragher was the junior winner with Stan Cross the senior winner. In the team event Stan Cross and Brian Faragher won with 572 points.
Next week is Meary Veg sporting GP over 120 targets with prize money of over £900 up for grabs. Entries for this are now closed and the squad draw taking place on Wednesday 27th July at 3pm. Duty officers this week are S Craine and T Davis.
B Faragher, A Wade, A Wright, J Moore, N Barnett, S Cross, P Kelly
The annual CM Partners English Skeet GP was held at Meary Veg, Santon, with 18 competitors taking part in near ideal conditions and over £600 in prize money up for grabs.
The leaders after the first round were Rachael Bowen Matthews, Andy Morgan Giulio Fabrizio and Jeff Corkill who all shot 25 straights followed by Dave Corlett, Stan Cross and Madeleine Simpson on 24. Andy Morgan was in the lead on his own after round two, recording another straight, hot on his heels were Rachael Bowen Matthews and Stan Cross on 49 with Madeleine Simpson next on 48. After round three Bowen Matthews and Morgan were tied in first place on 73 with Paul Mihailovits coming into the frame in third place on 71 along with Dave Corlett.
Things started to hot up after round four with Mihailovits, Bowen Matthews and Morgan all tying for first place on 96 with Corlett and Jeff Corkill one behind on 95.
The shooters were re-squaded after the fourth round from bottom to top and what a round we were going to have with the top five going in the last squad. We had Mihailovits, Bowen Matthews and Morgan all equal on 96 with Corlett and Corkill on 95, not a target was missed till pad four when Corlett dropped one then on the next stand Morgan dropped three and Corkill dropped one, on stand six Corlett dropped another target but Mihailovits and Bowen Matthews both hit straights so a shoot off was required to find a winner which was sudden death with pairs on four.
Mihailovits won the toss and went first and hit all four targets but Bowen Matthews dropped the second target on the second pair so Mihailovits was crowned the winner. Mihailovits also won the vets cup with Bowen Matthews taking the ladies, winning the Colts cup was Joe Faragher. Mihailovits made it a hat trick by winning the team event with partner Madeleine Simpson with 232 points one ahead of Stan Cross and Joe Faragher in second place on 231 with Dave Corlett and John Moore third on 230.
The prizes at the end were presented by David Morgan on behalf of the sponsors CM partners Ltd.
2022 CM Partners English Skeet GP Winners: J Faragher, A Morgan, D Corlett, P Mihailovits, Z Bellhouse, RB Matthews, D Morgan, M Simpson, N Barnett, B Faragher, J Corlett
Next week is a MCTSA Sporting selection shoot on Saturday afternoon at 1-30 and on Sunday is the Club all Round Championship over one round of each discipline. Duty officers this Saturday are S & M Cross.
