Records Officer Monthly Report – October and November 2024

14 December 2024

Welcome to the combined October and November report of the 2024/25 shooting season.

Club Records

Neill White – 50+ Men’s Longbow

  • Worcester – Score 211 (previous score 196)
  • Worcester (Double) Score 416 (no previous record)

Sarah Watson – Senior Ladies Recurve

  • Worcester (Double) Score 388 (no previous record)

Andrew Axworthy – Senior Men’s Recurve

  • Worcester – Score 289 (previous score 280)
  • St Nicholas – Score 740 (previous score 666)
  • Warwick 50 (previously short Warwick) – Score 412 (previous score 404)
  • WA 18m (3 spot) – Score 546 (previous score 537
  • Portsmouth 3 spot – Score 564 (previous score 552)
  • Worcester (Double) – Score 544 (previous score 454)

Emma Broadhurst – Senior Women Longbow

  • Worcester – Score 132 (no previous record)
  • Worcester (Double) – Score 245 (no previous record)
  • Frostbite – Score 173 (previous score 163)

Jeni Mattock – 50+ Women’s Barebow

  • Portsmouth – Score 491 (previous score 479)

John Pengilley – 50+ Men’s Barebow

  • Bray I – Score 235 (previous score 221)
  • Frostbite – Score 304 (Previous score 270)
  • Worcester – Score 254 (previous score 236)
  • Worcester (Double) – Score 480 (no previous score)

Classifications

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

  • John Pengilley (Barebow) – Indoor Bowman 1st Class
  • Emma Broadhurst (Longbow) – Indoor Bowman 2nd Class
  • Mark Armstrong (Recurve) – Indoor Bowman 3rd Class
  • Tim Cunningham (Recurve) – Indoor Archer 1st Class
  • Phil Lomas (Barebow) – Indoor Archer 1st Class
  • Sarah Legg (Recurve) – Indoor Archer 1st Class
  • David Legg (Recurve) – Indoor Archer 2nd Class and Indoor Archer 1st 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

  • Emma Broadhurst (Longbow) – 30yd & 40yd 252
  • John Pengilley (Longbow) – 20yd 252

AGB Progress Awards

  • Lorelei Armstrong (U16 Recurve) – IAGB Red
  • Mark Armstrong (Recurve) – IAGB Gold
  • Emma Broadhurst (Longbow) – IAGB Gold
  • Sarah Legg (Recurve) – IAGB Black
  • David Legg (Recurve) – IAGB Black

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 2024/5

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 first round of the competition:

The team positions after round one are as follows:

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

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

  • Neill White (Gents Longbow) – Score 485
  • Jack Cunningham (U16 Boys Recurve) – Score 444

Well done to both of you.

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:

  • Paul Warren (Compound) – 550 badge
  • Mark Armstrong (Recurve) – 525 badge
  • Andrew Howie (Recurve) – 500 badge
  • Tim Tatum (Recurve) – 500 badge
  • Tim Cunningham (Recurve) – 500 badge
  • David Legg (Recurve) – 450 badge
  • Jack Cunningham (U16 Recurve) – 400 badge
  • Steve Murray (Recurve) – 400 Badge
  • Sarah Legg (Recurve) – 400 badge
  • John Pengilley (Barebow) – 525 badge
  • Jeni Mattock (Barebow) – 475 badge
  • Phil Harley (Barebow) – 450 badge
  • Phil Lomas (Barebow) – 400 badge
  • Gary Wong (Longbow) – 450 badge
  • Emma Broadhurst (Longbow) – 400 badge

A document containing all of Novembers submitted scores can be found here.

DCAS Frostbite Winter Postal 2024/5

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 first round of the competition:

The team positions after round one are as follows:

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

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

  • John Pengilley (Gents Barebow) – Score 304
  • Linda Wright (Ladies Barebow) – Score 272

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:

  • Iain Lees (Compound) – 350 badge
  • Andrew Howie (Recurve) – 300 badge
  • Gary Wong (Longbow) – 275 badge
  • Sarah Watson (Recurve) – 250 badge
  • John Pengilley (Barebow) – 300 badge
  • Gary Still (Barebow) – 225 badge
  • Emma Broadhurst (Longbow) – 150 badge

Exmouth Archers WA 18m Indoor Tournament (27th October)

  • Andrew Axworthy came 2nd in Men’s Recurve
  • Andrew Howie came 7th in Men’s Recurve
  • Iain Lees came 5th in Men’s Compound
  • Gary Wong shot in both sessions, coming 11th in Men’s Compound and 4th in Men’s Longbow
  • Neill White won his category in Men’s Longbow

Newquay Bowmen Double Worcester Competition (24th November)

Seven Yelverton Bowmen archers (Sarah Watson, Andrew Axworthy, Emma Broadhurst, Neill White, Gary Wong, Linda Wright & John Pengilley) traveled
to Newquay to shoot in the Double Worcester competition: Emma Broadhurst came 1st in the Ladies Longbow, this is a fantastic result given that is was Emma’s first competition.

  • John Pengilley came 1st in the Gents Barebow
  • Linda Wright came 1st in the Ladies Barebow
  • Neill White came 2nd in the Gents Longbow

A good time was had by all those who took part (including our head cheerleader Stan), and we even came away with a significant haul in raffle prizes. The full results 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