Welcome to the February report of the 2024/25 shooting season.

Club Records

• Emma Broadhurst – Senior Women Longbow:
  • Bray I – Score 149 (previous score 132)
• Jenny Kerchey- Senior Women Recurve:
  • WA 18m 3 spot – Score 397 (no previous record)
• Iain Lees – Senior Men Compound:
  • Bray I (Three spot) – score 286 (previous score 281)

Classifications

The following Classification levels have been achieved, and badges are in the process of being awarded under the new Archery GB Classification Scheme. All three archers have achieved the highest level able to be awarded internally by the club, so well done to all three of you, especially Emma who has been shooting for less than a year:

• Phil Lomas (Barebow) – Indoor Bowman 3^rd Class
• Andrew Howie (Recurve) – Indoor Bowman 3^rd Class
• Jenny Kerchey (Recurve) – Indoor Archer 1^st Class
• Samantha Horton (Barebow) – Indoor Archer 3^rd Class

More information on indoor and outdoor rounds and classification can be found here, or speak to me on a shooting night. You can start to shoot outdoor classification rounds once you have achieved your 20 yard 252, and start working towards your first Archer Classification.

Progress and 252 Awards

Badges were awarded to the following archers:

252 Awards

• Ellen Lawrence (Recurve) – 20yds
• Alan Horton (Recurve) – 20yds

AGB Progress Awards

• None awarded in period

More information on the two progress schemes can be found here, or speak to me at one of our club sessions.

Now that we have moved to indoor shooting during the week there is an opportunity for new archers to start to shoot for Indoor Archery GB Progress awards, please see me at your next session and I will explain.

Competitions

DCAS Portsmouth Winter Postal 2024/25

The club has entered the following teams into the DCAS Winter Postal Portsmouth Leagues:

• Three Senior Recurve/Barebow team
• One Senior Compound team
• One Senior Longbow team
• One Junior U16 Mixed Style team

There are three archers per team, and the club will collate the scores in descending order and the highest scores will be entered each month. Scores will need to be submitted on a club score sheet and signed as indicated. The rules for the competition can be found on the DCAS Postal Competitions page, and the associated score sheet on the Club Score Sheets page.

The following scores were submitted for the February round of the competition:

Despite only two of our teams winning this month only one team dropped a position in their division. The team positions after round four are as follows:

• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘A’ – remain in 4^th place in Division 1
• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘B’ – remain in 3^rd place in Division 3
• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘C’ – dropped from 1^st to 2^nd place in Division 5
• Senior Compound team – remain in 1^st place in Division 2
• Senior Longbow team – remain in 1^st place in Division 2
• Junior U16 Mixed Style team – remain in 2^nd place in Division 1

The following archer holds the highest score for the round shot by bow style:

• Jack Cunningham (U16 Boys Recurve) – Score 447

Well done Jack.

Submission of a score sheet for consideration for the Portsmouth league will also qualify for a Portsmouth score badge. The following archers were awarded the relevant Portsmouth score badges:

• Stan Axworthy (Recurve) – 475 badge
• Phil Lomas (Barebow) – 450 badge
• Samantha Horton (Barebow) – 200 badge

DCAS Frostbite Winter Postal 2024/25

The club has entered the following teams into the DCAS Winter Postal Frostbite Leagues:

• One Senior Compound + two of any other style team
• Two Senior Recurve/Barebow team
• One Senior Longbow team
• One Junior U16 Mixed non-compound team

As with the Portsmouth league there are three archers per team, and the club will collate the scores in descending order and the highest scores will be
entered each month. Scores will need to be submitted on a club score sheet and signed as indicated. The rules for the competition can be found on the
DCAS Postal Competitions page, and the associated score sheet on the Club Score Sheets page.

The following scores were submitted for the February round of the competition:

With 3 of our 5 teams winning the team positions after round four are as follows:

• Senior Compound + two of any other style team – remain in 1^st place in Division 1
• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘A’ – rose to 4^th from 5^th place in Division 1
• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘B’ – rose from 6^th to 5^th place in Division 2
• Senior Longbow team – dropped from 3^rd to 4^th place in Division 1
• Junior U16 Mixed Style team – remain in 3^rd place in Division 1

The following archers hold the highest scores for the round shot by bow style:

• John Pengilley (Gents Barebow) – Score 304
• Neill White (Gents Longbow) – Score 280

Well done to both of you.

Submission of a score sheet for consideration for the Frostbite league will also qualify for a Frostbite score badge. The following archers were awarded the relevant Frostbite score badges:

• Mark Nightingale (Recurve) – 250 Badge

The full tables for both Winter Postal leagues can be found here.

BUCS Indoors Southern Qualifiers (8th February)

Amongst other University of Plymouth Archery Club members, Yelverton Bowmen archers Corey Richardson, Tobi Penter and Marilyn Wong attended the BUCS Indoor Southern Qualifiers where student archers from across the south of the UK compete to proceed to BUCS Indoor Finals taking place on the 23rd of March.

Marilyn Wong (Barebow Experienced Women) placed 1st across all three regions – Southern, Central and Northern – with a Portsmouth score of 539, securely earning her place in the finals.

Corey Richardson placed 7th with a score of 563 and Tobi Penter placed 57th with a score of 475.

Full results can be found in IANSEO.

Devon & Cornwall Archery Society Indoor Championships (23^rd February)

Yelverton Bowmen were well represented again at this event with an impressive 22 archers across all four bow styles, for some* it was their first competition. Once again a big thank you goes out to all those who helped set up for the competition on the Saturday, and who helped and supported on the day. The DCAS team were very grateful for your support.

A special thanks goes to Sarah Watson for taking on the role of Lady Paramount for the day.

Individual archers performed as follows:

• Alex Rowe (Recurve – Men) – 3^rd place,
• Andrew Axworthy (Recurve – Men) – 7^th place
• Andrew Howie (Recurve – Men) – 11^th place
• Steve Millard (Recurve – Men) – 12^th place
• Mark Armstrong* (Recurve – Men) – 14^th place
• Andrew Pearson* (Recurve – Men) – 18^th place
• Jenny Kerchey (Recurve – Women) – 4^th place
• Ellen Lawrence* (Recurve – Women) – 6^th place
• Finley Melia* (Recurve – Under 18 Men) – 1^st place
• Lorelei Armstrong* (Recurve – Under 16 Women) – 2^nd place
• Corey Richardson (Compound Men) – 2^nd place
• Iain Lees (Compound Men) – 3^rd place
• John Pengilley (Barebow Men) – 1^st place
• Phil Lomas (Barebow Men) – 5^th place
• Phil Harley* (Barebow Men) – 7^th place
• Marilyn Wong (Barebow Ladies) – 1^st place (shooting for University of Plymouth)
• KT Pollington (Barebow Ladies) – 2^nd place
• Linda Wright (Barebow Ladies) – 4^th place
• Neill White (Longbow Men) – 4^th place
• Gary Wong (Longbow Men) – 9^th place
• El Green (Longbow ladies) – 2^nd place
• Emma Broadhurst (Longbow ladies) – 3^rd place

The team results were as follows:

• Senior Recurve Team (Andrew Axworthy, Andrew Howie, Steve Millard & Alex Rowe) – 2^nd place
• Mixed Doubles Team (Alex Rowe & Lorelei Armstrong) – 4^th place,
• Mixed Doubles Longbow Team (El Green & Neill White) – 2^nd place,
• Mixed Doubles Barebow Team (KT Pollington & John Pengilley) – 1^st place

The full results for the competition can be found here.

Bray 1 League

Running alongside the DCAS Portsmouth Postal and Frostbite Postal Competitions we are also running an internal club competition shooting Bray I rounds. The competition will run from the beginning of October to the end of March, and as such this means that all indoor shooting sessions during this period are considered to be club Target days. This means that archers will be able to shoot rounds and submit scores towards the Bowmen classifications.

Details for this competition can be found here.

Several archers have submitted qualifying scores and the tables will be published in next months report.

 

Regards,
John,
Records Officer