Welcome to the March report of the 2024/25 shooting season. This is the final report for the 2024/25 indoor season.

Club Records

• Jenny Kerchey – Senior Women’s Recurve:
  • Bray I Triple – Score 201 (no previous record)
  • Portsmouth Triple – Score 454 (no previous record)
• Jenni Mattock – Senior Women’s Barebow:
  • Portsmouth – Score 504 (previous score 491)
• John Pengilley – Senior Mens Barebow:
• • Stafford – Score 601 (no previous record)
• Alan Horton – 50+ Mens Recurve:
  • Western 30 (previously called Short Junior Western) – Score 697 (no previous record)

Classifications

The following Classification levels have been achieved, and badges are in the process of being awarded under the new Archery GB Classification Scheme.

• Jenni Mattock (Barebow) – Indoor Bowman 1st Class (well done Jenni, this is the highest classification that is able to be awarded at club level)
• KT Pollington (Barebow) – Indoor Bowman 2nd Class
• Samantha Horton (Barebow) – Indoor Bowman 3rd Class
• Tim Hall (Compound) – Indoor Archer 1st Class
• Tobi Penter (Recurve) – Indoor Archer 1st Class
• Ellen Lawrence (Recurve) – Indoor Archer 2nd Class
• Alan Horton (Recurve) – Indoor Archer 2nd Class & Outdoor Archer 3rd 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

• Samantha Horton (Barebow & Longbow) – 20yds
• Tobi Penter (Recurve) – 20 & 30yds

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.

Just a quick reminder that Outdoor Archery GB awards are no longer being issued by the club. We have chosen to concentrate on the 252 scheme for outdoor progress.

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 March (final) round of the competition:

In the final moth of the competition three of our six team won. The final team positions are as follows:

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

Well done to the clubs compound and longbow archers who submitted scores for this competition.

Unfortunately none of our archers finished with the highest individual Portsmouth score this season. Better luck next time everyone.

The final team and individual results are as follows:

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:

• Jeni Mattock (Barebow) – 500 badge
• Tobi Penter (Recurve) – 500 badge
• Ellen Lawrence (Recurve) – 400 badge
• Alan Horton (Recurve) – 400 badge
• Parker Fewings (Barebow) – 400 badge
• Samantha Horton (Barebow) – 300 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 March (final) round of the competition:

In the final month of the competition four of our five teams won. The final team positions are as follows:

• Senior Compound + two of any other style team – Won Division 1
• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘A’ – finished in 3^rd place in Division 1
• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘B’ – finished in 5^th place in Division 2
• Senior Longbow team – finished in 3^rd place in Division 1
• Junior U16 Mixed Style team – finished 3^rd place in Division 1

The following archer finished with the highest scores for the round shot by bow style:

• Neill White (Gents Longbow) – Score 280

Well done Neill.

The final team and individual results are as follows:

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:

• Alan Horton (Recurve) – 150 badge
• Phil Lomas (Barebow) – 250 Badge

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

Grand Western Archery Society (GWAS) Indoor Championship (2nd March)

Seven Yelverton Bowmen archers made the trip to Weston-Super-Mare to take part in the well attended (134 archers) regional competition. The round being shot was WA 18m.

Neill white managed to come away with a bronze medal finishing in third place in the Senior Men’s Longbow.

Alex Rowe and Andrew Axworthy took part in the Senior Men’s Recurve; Sarah Watson in the Senior Women’s Recurve; Corey Richardson in the Senior Men’s Compound; Gary Wong in the Senior Men’s Longbow and John Pengilley in the Senior Men’s Barebow.

Full results can be found on IANSEO.

British University and College Sports Indoor Finals (16th March)

After attending BUCS Indoors Southern Qualifiers in February, Marilyn Wong and KT Pollington advanced to BUCS Indoor Finals, hosted by the University of Warwick.

In the qualification round, KT scored 403 on a WA 18m and seeded 15th. Marilyn scored 476, placing her 1st. Both archers compete in the Barebow Women’s category. These scores we high enough to qualify for the head-to-head rounds!

KT won their first match against the 2nd place seed with a set-point score of 6-2, before tightly losing the second round match at 6-4.

Marilyn’s path to the gold medal match consisted of wins of 6-2, 6-0 and 6-2, where she finished overall in 2nd place after a 6-4 defeat.

Full results can be found on IANSEO.

South West and Wales University League Leg 6 – Indoor Championships (23rd March)

Two Yelverton Bowmen archers were part of the University of Plymouth’s team at SWWU’s Indoor Championships this month – SWWU’s largest ever event with 104 student archers!

In the Combined Barebow Experience category, Marilyn Wong seeded 3rd with a Bray I score of 217. Making it to the gold medal match with a route of 6-0, 6-0 and 6-2 victories, Marilyn took the silver medal after a narrow 6-4 defeat against the top-seeded archer.

Corey Richardson took bronze in the Compound Experienced division after seeding in 4th place with a score of 266, winning the quarter-final match 136-131 but losing the semi-final match to the eventual winner 136-143. In a stroke of luck, his bronze-medal match opponent had to leave early, meaning any scoring arrow would win him the match, leading to a very unimpressionable score of 27-0!

Full results can be found on IANSEO.

Bowmen of Wadebridge UK Record Status Stafford competition (30th March)

Six Yelverton Bowmen archers made their way to St Austell for the Stafford competition with five of them coming away with medals. Well done to everyone who took part.

Individual archers performed as follows:

• Neill White (Longbow 50+ Men) – 1^st place
• John Pengilley (Barebow 50+ Men) – 1^st place
• Sarah Watson (Recurve Women) – 3^rd place
• Iain Lees (Compound Men) – 3^rd place
• Gary Wong (Longbow Men) – 3^rd place
• Andrew Axworthy (Recurve – Men) – 5^th place

The full results can be found on IANSEO.

British University Team Championships (30th March)

Yelverton Bowmen archers Marilyn Wong and Parker Fewings made up 2 of the 3 members of the University of Plymouth’s A Team at BUTC 2025. The event consists of a three-archer cumulative Bray I ranking round followed by Beiter Hit or Miss head-to-head matches where the team of 3 archers has just 2 minutes to shoot 6 arrows (2 arrows per archer) at hit-or-miss spot just 60mm wide!

Plymouth’s A Team ranked 18th of 25 university teams and unfortunately closely lost their first head-to-head match 6-5 against Surrey’s A Team putting them out of the competition.

In the Repechage round, their match ended 5-5 against Northampton’s A Team, ultimately being decided by a loss in the shoot-off.

Full results can be found on IANSEO.

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.

The results are in. Unfortunately only 6 archers submitted qualifying scores for this competition, however the winner this year is………..

Paul Horsley with 7204 points, well done Paul. The trophy will be awarded in due course.

Steve Millard came a really close second with 7201 points and Andrew Howie third with 2893 points.

The full results are below.

And Finally…

As we have now moved outdoors, we will shortly publish a list of monthly target days.

As with last year we will rotate the rounds to include both metric and imperial rounds, and will give archers the opportunity to practice rounds in advance of external competitions. So keep a look out on the club calendar.

 

Regards,
John,
Records Officer