Records Officer Monthly Report – January 2024

1 February 2024

Welcome to the January report of the 2023/24 shooting season.

This month has seen an increase in the number of people achieving or bettering their indoor classification. It also saw the resumption of the award of Portsmouth & Frostbite badges.

Club Records

Having reviewed a number of shooting record cards, the following new club records have been set and certificates have been awarded:

  • Neill White – Men’s 50+ Longbow records:
    • WA1440 (Gentlemen) 90m – Score 473 (no previous score)
    • WA1440 (Ladies) / Metric 1 70m – Score 563 (no previous score)
    • Worcester – Score 196 (previous score 144)
  • Georgina Baglow – Ladies 50+ Compound
    • Portsmouth 3 spot – Score 571 (previous score 558)
  • Josie Nuttall – Ladies U14 Barebow:
    • Portsmouth – score 355 ( no previous score)

Classifications

Archery GB have updated the Indoor Rounds and Classifications, including changes to the age groups to bring them in alignment with the recent outdoor changes.

This means that all previous indoor Classification have been archived and all archers will have to regain their classifications.

Everyone issued with the old style badge has now received a replacement new badge.

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

  • Georgina Baglow (Compound) – Indoor Bowman 1st Class
  • Josie Nuttall (Barebow) – Indoor Bowman 2nd Class
  • Andrew Axworthy (Recurve) – Indoor Bowman 2nd Class
  • Jonathan Ward (Barebow) – Indoor Bowman 3rd Class
  • Jeni Mattock (Barebow) – Indoor Bowman 3rd Class
  • John Pengilley (Barebow) – Indoor Bowman 3rd Class
  • Stan Axworthy (Recurve) – Indoor Archer 1st Class
  • Philip Harley (Barebow) – Indoor Archer 1st Class
  • Finley Melia (Recurve) – Indoor Archer 1st Class
  • Stacey Warren (Conpound) – Indoor Archer 1st Class
  • Sarah Watson (Recurve) – Indoor Archer 1st Class
  • Jamie Pruden (Recurve) – Archer 1st Class
  • Andrew Howie (Recurve) – Indoor Archer 2nd Class
  • Laurence Nairne (Barebow) – Indoor Archer 2nd Class
  • Jenny Kerchey (Recurve) – Indoor Archer 2nd Class
  • Andrew Pearson (Recurve) – Indoor Archer 2nd Class
  • Jason Scott (Compound) – Indoor Archer 3rd Class

More information on indoor & 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 (outdoor) or AGB Progress award (indoor & outdoor), and start working towards your first Archer Classification.

Progress and 252 Awards

Badges were awarded to the following archers:

  • Mark Nightingale (Recurve) – Indoor AGB Gold award
  • Samantha Dalton (Longbow) – 20yd 252 award
  • Dominic Dalton (Longbow) – 20yd 252 award

More information on the two progress schemes – including the AGB Indoor Progress awards – can be found here, or speak to me at one of our club sessions.

Frostbite and Portsmouth Score Badges

From January 2024 the club will be awarding new badges for the Portsmouth and Frostbite rounds. To qualify you will need to submit a score to the records officer for entry into the relevant DCAS postal competition. You will then be awarded the badge which the score equals or exceeds. All bow types and age groups qualify as long as the score is shot as part of a postal competition.

Your first badge will free, however as you improve you will have the option of trading in your old badge or paying a £1 contribution towards the new one.

Competitions

January saw the club take part in the third of five rounds of the two DCAS postal competitions, Portsmouth and Frostbite.

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

DCAS Portsmouth Winter Postal League 2023/2024

  • Three Senior Recurve/Barebow teams
  • One Senior Compound team
  • One Senior Longbow team
  • One Junior 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.

DCAS Winter Postal – Portsmouth Results

The following scores were submitted by members of the club and as you can see from the results below the club performed exceptionally well:

In January we again had 5 wins and 1 loss, with the compound team losing by a mere 3 points. This is a fantastic achievement by all those who shot.

Well done to all those who submitted score sheets, please keep this up. Please remember this is open to all club members, so please take time to submit an entry to me because even if your score is not used it could count towards your next badge.

  • Senior Recurve/Barebow Team A – Remain in 1st place in Division 4
  • Senior Recurve/Barebow Team B – Remain in 3rd place in Division 5
  • Senior Recurve/Barebow Team C –  Remain in 2nd place in Division 6
  • Compound Team – Have dropped to 2nd place in Division 2
  • Longbow team – Remain in 2nd place in Division 2
  • Junior U 16 Mixed – Remain in 1st place in Division 2

Furthermore Josie retains the highest Junior girl barebow score (358), well done Josie.

The following archers were awarded Portsmouth Badges:

  • Iain Lees – 580
  • Alex Rowe  – 575
  • Andrew Axworthy – 550
  • Georgina Baglow – 550
  • Corey Richardson – 550
  • Stephen Millard – 525
  • Paul Mattock – 525
  • Stacey Warren – 525
  • Paul Horsley – 500
  • Jonathan Ward – 475
  • Jamie Pruden – 475
  • Linda Wright – 475
  • Mark Nightingale – 475
  • Neill White – 475
  • Jenny Kerchey – 450
  • Andrew Howie – 450
  • John Pengilley – 450
  • Laurence Nairne – 400
  • Finley Melia – 400
  • Josie Nuttall – 350
  • Ken Kingston – 350
  • Jill Hudson – 300

DCAS Frostbite Winter Postal League 2023/2024

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.

  • One Senior Compound team
  • Two Senior Recurve/Barebow only teams
  • One Senior Longbow team
  • One Senior Mixed Non-Compound team
  • One Junior Mixed Non-Compound team

In January we improved our position in two divisions as we won 3 and lost 3 matches. Once again thank you for your scores, please keep this up, and lets see if we can get some junior scores in for the future months.

  • Senior Compound Team – Have dropped from 2nd to 3rd place in Division 1
  • Senior Recurve/Barebow Team A – Have moved up from 4th to 3rd place in Division 2
  • Senior Recurve/Barebow Team B – Remain in 1st place in Division 3
  • Senior Longbow Team – Have moved up two places 4th to 2nd place in Division 2
  • Senior Mixed Non-Compound Team  –  Remain in 5th place in Division 1
  • Junior U16 Mixed Non-Compound Team  – Remain in 3rd place in Division 1

Furthermore, Neill White continues to hold the highest Gents Longbow Score (264 shot in the November round), well done Neill.

 

The following Frostbite badges were awarded:

  • Darren Bennion – 355
  • Iain Lees – 330
  • Alex Rowe – 315
  • Andrew Axworthy – 300
  • Jamie Pruden – 250
  • Neill White – 250
  • Linda Wright – 250
  • John Pengilley – 225
  • Sarah Watson – 225
  • Philip Harley – 225
  • Andrew Howie – 200

Please don’t forget that there are still two rounds left in these competitions so there is still time to take part.

Bray 1 League

Running alongside the DCAS Portsmouth Postal and Frostbite Postal Competitions we are currently running a new internal club competition which will continue until the end of March.

Full details of the indoor season long competition can be found here. A results table will be updated monthly.

External Competitions

We had a great showing at the Brixham Clipper this month with the following club members winning medals:

  • Linda Wright (Barebow Women 50+)
  • Neill White (Longbow Men 50+)
  • Corey Richardson (Compound Men U21)

There were 12 Yelverton Bowmen taking part in the competition and whilst we did not all shoot as well as we could, we all had a great time; even those experiencing their first competition. Well done everyone.

Club participants included Ken Kingston, John Pengilley, Alex Rowe, Corey Richardson, Linda Wright, Neill White, Pippa Nightingale, Mark Nightingale, Sarah Watson, Iain Lees, Andres Axworthy and Jamie Pruden.

And finally, please don’t forget that we are hosting the DCAS indoor tournament on Sunday 25th February; the target list can be found on IANSEO.

If you have any questions please talk to me at one of our club sessions.

Regards,
John Pengilley,
Records Officer, Yelverton Bowman