Announcements - Archers of East Riding

Longbow Archers 1st Place

posted 23 Jan 2012 01:25 by Archers East Riding

Two Longbow Archers travelled to Dearne Vally Archery Club in Goldthorpe on Sunday 22nd January to take part in a double Portsmouth round competition. Shooting 5 doz arrows @ 20 yrds in the morning session and 5 doz in the afternoon session.

Trevor Astley taking 5th place with a score of 789. Junior Lady Longbow archer Eleanor Lundie taking 1st place with a score of 313.

Portsmouth Competition - Barnsley

posted 16 Jan 2012 08:12 by Archers East Riding

3 Senior archers travelled to Barnsley on Sunday 15th January to take part in the first indoor competition of the new year shooting a Portsmouth Round (5 doz arrows at 20 yrds)

Steve Shipley taking 3rd place with a score of 561. We also had 2 new archers shooting in the Novice class - Simon Adams taking 1st place with a score of 529 and Max Shipley scoring 388.

Well done to all the archers.

November Challenge Results

posted 15 Jan 2012 07:29 by Archers East Riding [ updated 15 Jan 2012 07:43 ]

3 Junior Archers took part in the November Challenge shooting 3 doz arrows at 20 yrds:

Michael Smith shooting under 18s taking 7th place out of 36 with a score of 331.

Alisha Adams shooting under 16s girls recurve taking 27th place out of 27 with a score of 40.

Mia North shooting under 12s girls recurve taking 31st place out of 33 with a score of 31.

Both junior girls had only been shooting 6 weeks when they shot this competition and the weather condition was very windy.

Congratulations to all 3 Archers for taking part.

Double Clout Shoot Weekend - Entry Form Available

posted 14 Jan 2012 15:50 by Archers East Riding [ updated 14 Jan 2012 15:54 ]

The entry form is available if you interested in the GNAS Open Clout and 3rd Yorkshire FITA Open Clout weekend. See the page regarding the Clout Shoot 2012 for all of the details or open an entry form by clicking here

Northern Counties Clout Rankings

posted 12 Jan 2012 16:36 by Gary North [ updated 12 Jan 2012 16:42 ]

Ollie Darkings is now ranked No.1 (Junior Barebow) and Tom Mowforth No.4 (Junior Recurve) in the 2011 Northern Counties Imperial Clout rankings. Well done to both.

Twilight Shoot

posted 18 Dec 2011 14:23 by Gary North

We are to hold our annual Twilight Shoot on Friday 30th December at the sports ground at 6pm. Head-lights and/or torches will be required.

Wrap up well to keep warm has jack frost may be about. There will be prizes will be awarded, and all archers will be served soup and hot-dogs.

Help needed to set up the targets. See Judge in charge - Andy Howe.

May the best Archer win.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL MEMBERS.

Christmas Fun Shoot and Badges

posted 18 Dec 2011 14:18 by Gary North

15 members turned out on a cold winter's night to shoot at Driffield School to take part in our Christmas Fun Shoot. Each archer was assigned a number, with the object of the game being to shoot other players numbers the last player with spots not hit is the winner. Steve Shipley was the first archer to be eliminated - what a surprise that was.

Paul Jones won the prize for the adults and Elisha Adams won the first prize for the juniors.

Next there was a head to head competition where Trevor Ashley, shooting a recurve bow, came up against Paul Jones. Even with all Trevor's antics he could not put Paul off. Trevor lost out to Paul and the final was Paul Jones against Steve Shipley. Paul won with a 3 - 1 ratio. Prizes where awarded by Carole - sweets for the juniors and wine for the adults.

Many thanks go to Colin Loft for supplying the wine and chocolates which everybody enjoyed and to William and Carole for trying to keep law and order.

At the end of the fun shoot Carole presented Portsmouth and Frostbite Badges to members as follows:

Portsmouth Badges:

Paul Jones - 575

Gary North - 550

Thomas Mowforth - 525 and 550

Simon Adams - 500

John Jackson - 500

Trevor Astley - 425, 450

Len Perry - 400

Oliver Darkings - 400

John Jackson - 500

Frostbite Badges:

Paul Jones - 330

Tim Booth - 300

Thomas Mowforth - 300

Gary North - 275

More Results...

posted 12 Dec 2011 12:11 by Gary North

Congratulations to Yorkshire Archery Association Squad Members on the National Ranking Places - Michael Smith 8th and Thomas Mowforth 15th.

On Sunday 20th November Junior Archer Michael Smith travelled to Penrith in Cumbria to take part in the Northern Counties Indoor Competition shooting a Portsmouth round 5 doz Arrows at 20 yrds with a score of 560 taking 1st place.

On Sunday 27th November four Archers travelled to Sheffield to take part in a competition held by Chantry Bowman shooting a Portsmouth Round 5 doz Arrows at 20 yrds.Steve Shipley 551,David Reaney 525 Carole Reaney 453. New Member Max Shipley shooting at his 1st Indoor competition 373.

East Riding Shoot Sucess

posted 24 Nov 2011 13:24 by Gary North

On Sunday 7th August 21 members from Archers Of East Riding travelled to Burton Constable Hall to take part in the East Riding Shoot Competition and won 5 first places, 2 seconds, 2 best golds and more!!!

Seniors shooting an American Round 30 Arrows at 60 yards, 30 at 50 yards and 30 at 40 yards. Michael Smith took 1st place with a score of 712 - Michael is a junior but shoots at the Senior level. Steve Shipley took 2nd place with a score of score 704. Other club members scored as follows: David Reaney 656, Jess Walker 656, Andy Howe 631, Dean Lowe 594, Tim Booth 584, William Lundie 523, Paul Hancock 513, Glen Nelson 491, Colin Loft342 and Carole Reaney 478.

Michael Smith took best gold at 60 yards and Jess Walker took best gold at 50 yards. Michael Smith, Steve Shipley, David & Carole Reaney took the Minster Cup for the club for the 2nd year running.

Of our Longbow Archers Trevor Astley took 2nd place scoring 363 and Keith Nicholson scored 289. Trevor also took home a Constable Arrow. Entering his first competition Neil Murrey took first place with a score of 272 taking home The George & Monica Thorley Salver.

Juniors shot Nationals rounds - under 16’s 4 dozen at 50 yards and 2 dozen at 40 yards. Taking 1st place was Blain Nicholson who scored 520 whilst taking 2nd place was Thomas Mowforth score 526.

For the Under 14’s (4 dozen at 40 yrds and 2 dozen at 30 yards) Lewis Booth took 1st place scoring 218.

Under 12’s (4 dozen at 30 yards and 2 dozen at 20 yards) saw Oliver Darkings taking 1st place with a score of 485. Shooting at his first competition since finishing the beginners course earlier this year (and using his new bow that he had only shot twice before!) Sammy Beachell took 2nd place scoring 35. Last, but not least, Joshua Booth took first place in the Under 12’s Barebow competition with a score of 162.

Archery GB

posted 24 Nov 2011 11:20 by Gary North [ updated 24 Nov 2011 14:06 ]

Celebrations have been taking place at the Archers Of East Riding this week. Two Junior archers Michael Smith and Blain Nicholson have been selected to shoot at the performance unit at Lilleshall National Sport Centre in Shropshire, the home of the Archery G.B. Team.

The two Juniors have been training with the Yorkshire Archery squad for the past 3 years, where they have travelled the length and breadth of the country competing at national competitions.

The juniors have continually impressed their county coaches by winning many championships. As a result the coaches put their names forward to the Archery GB training team.

They will travel to Lilleshall once a month for two days of training working on their technique and fitness working with Lloyd Brown the head coach for Archery G.B.

In the new year they will be training at the new academy which is to be based at Warrington College in a purpose-built Sports Facility used by other Olympic Disciplines.

The academy is a new concept working with coaching for 14-19 years olds to feed into the Olympic development programme.

The aim for both Michael and Blain is to take part in the 2016 Olympic Games to be held in Rio-Brazil.

Good luck from all members of Archers of East Riding.