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Surprise result at Sulby

Mon, 29 Feb 2016


The visitors at Sulby on Monday evening were the Division 1 leaders Port St Mary and although a tough match was envisaged, a win for the northern club by seven points would not have been expected. The loss for ‘Port was the first of the season and with two reasonably tight matches before the season ends for the southerners, the closing stages in Division 1 looks as if it may go ‘down to the wire’. Sulby have managed to hit 489 on five occasions over the season and 482 is the lowest Port St Mary have scored throughout their 15 match run. Divisions 2 and 3 went to the southern club which enhances their title ambitions in both those Divisions.

            Teddy Sayle led the way for Sulby with a terrific 100 closely followed by Mark Cain and Will Quayle posting 98, Peter Faragher on 97 and Julian Teare making up the Division 1 team on 96. Championship leading junior, Ashley Gardner, Derek Kermode and another junior, Ryan Forrest all recorded 97’s for Port St Mary with Gary Knight on 96 and Kevan Kneale on 95.  

 

Sulby                           v          Port St Mary

Division 1

Teddy Sayle                 100      Ashley Gardner (J)      97

Mark Cain                   98        Derek Kermode           97

Will Quayle                 98        Ryan Forrest                97

Peter Faragher            97        Gary Knight                 96

Julian Teare                96        Kevan Kneale              95

                                    489                                          482

 

Division 2

Mark Boyde                94        Ashley Gardner           95

Orry Teare                  94        Dave Bould                  95

Fergus Coulter (J)        93        Eddie Maddrell           94

Peter Webb                 92        Isaac Heaton (J)          94

Phil Quayle                  92        George Dalton-Brown (J)  94

                                    465                                          472

 

Division 3

Rod Forshaw               92        Ean Brewis                  94

Jacob Duggan              90        Callum Grant (J)          93

Jim Teare                    89        Juan Clague                 92

Richard Faragher        85        Graham Brown           91

Ben Morgan (J)           77        Jackie Gardner (JL)     91

                                    433                                          461

 

Additional Shooters

                                                Patrick Kerr (J)                        93

 

Laxey take all the points at IoMSC Sandsiders

            Laxey were the visiting team at Sinclair range, St Johns and the hosts were outshot due to the lack of members – IoMSC Sandsiders have many shooters either on holiday or unable to compete due to illness or injury and on this occasion, just six were available. Laxey recorded an excellent result of 488 led by Harry Creevy, Gemma Kermode and Suzanne Curphey all on 99, John Wood a little further behind on 96 and Judy Kee on 95. Sandsiders had Bill Jones on top with a 98, Andy Traynor posted 97 with junior Matthew Roosen and Tony Kneale both on 96 and another junior, Conner Rowe making up their Division 1 team on 90.

 

IoMSC Sandsiders      v          Laxey

Division 1

Bill Jones                     98        Harry Creevy               99

Andy Traynor              97        Gemma Kermode (L)  99

Matthew Roosen (J)    96        Suzanne Curphey (L)   99

Tony Kneale                96        John Wood                  96

Conner Rowe (J)          90        Judy Kee (L)                 95

                                    477                                          488

 

Division 2

Graham Wyatt            84        Stephen Curphey         94

                                                Garry Kneale               94

                                                Bridget Kneale (L)       94

                                                Peter Clague               93

                                    00        Andy Jessopp               91

                                    84                                            466

 

IoMSC Douglas maintain the pressure on the league at Kirk Michael

            The village team at Kirk Michael are at times struggling for support but regularly continue to post some encouraging results but this week’s match went to the visitors in all three Divisions. Tom Lord managed a great 98 for the villagers closely followed by junior shooter, Illiam Christian, on 97 and the ‘intending bride’, Perryn Callister hitting 96. It was terrific to see Kevin Quinn who has had serious medical problems recently making up the Division 1 team and recording a 95 along with David Lord on the same score. I would like to think I speak on behalf of all those involved in shooting when we offer our best wishes to Perryn Callister when she married her Scottish fiancé, Colin Watson yesterday, February 29th (I am guessing the day was chosen so anniversary gifts would be restricted to every four years ! – wonder if you realised that Perryn !).

            The title of leading shooter for the visitors went to Mark Osborn on 100, it’s been a long time Mark, followed by Nick Brown on 98, Dave Humphrey, Andy Potter and Tracey Skelton all on 97. All three divisions went to the visitors.

 

Kirk Michael               v          IoMSC Douglas

Division 1

Tom Lord                     98        Mark Osborn               100

Illiam Christian (J)       97        Nick Brown                  98

Perryn Callister (L)      96        Dave Humphrey          97

Kevin Quinn                 95        Andy Potter                 97

David Lord                   95        Tracey Skelton (L)       97

                                    481                                          489

 

Division 2

Alex Trafford (J)          93        Sharon Drysdale (L)    96

Mathew Wernham     93        Sam Jones (J)               95

Tommy Ardis               92        Paul Perkins                94

Andy Kelly (J)               89        Thomas Clague (J)      93

                                    00        Christian Eaton (J)       93

                                    367                                          471

 

Division 3

                                    00        Keith Lowney               92

                                    00                                            92

 

 

LEAGUE POSITIONS as at February 23rd.

Division 1

                                                S              W           D             L              Agg        Points

Port St Mary                       15           12           2              1              7322       26

IoMSC Douglas                  15           11           1              3              7316       23

Sulby                                     14           8              2              4              6804       18

Laxey                                    15           8              0              7              7278       16

IoMSC Sandsiders            15           4              0              11           7168       8

Castletown                         14           3              2              9              6731       8

Kirk Michael                       14           1              1              12           6655       3

                                                                                                                                     

Division 2                        

                                                S              W           D             L              Agg        Points

Port St Mary                       15           15           0              0              7151       30

IoMSC Douglas                  15           12           0              3              7073       24

Sulby                                     14           8              0              6              6606       16

Castletown                         14           7              0              7              6495       14

Laxey                                    15           7              0              8              5805       14

IoMSC Sandsiders            15           1              0              14           4414       2

Kirk Michael                       14           1              0              13           4198       2

 

Division 3

                                                S              W           D             L              Agg        Points

Port St Mary                       15           15           0              0              6967       30

Sulby                                     14           10           0              4              5383       20

IoMSC Douglas                  15           9              0              6              5475       18

Castletown                         14           7              0              7              4044       14

Laxey                                    15           2              0              13           517         4

IoMSC Sandsiders            15           1              0              14           245         2

Kirk Michael                       14           0              0              14           84           0

 

Dates for your Diaries

Next week’s Winter League matches on March 7th will see IoMSC Douglas welcome league leaders Port St Mary to Sinclair, St Johns and Castletown travel north to Sulby and will host Castletown at the Glen Gardens. IoMSC Sandsiders go north to Kirk Michael which could prove to be a tight match.  The bye this week goes to Laxey

 

At a recent IoM Rifle Association meeting provisional dates were agreed for several Association competitions – the following are the venues and dates that have been agreed.

 

101 Cup                      - Laxey Range                         - 3rd March

ND Hamilton Meikle - Sulby Range              - 10th March

The Fozard                  - Sinclair Range           - 13th March

Golden Jubilee           - Port St Mary Range - 17th March

Lady of Mann                         - Castletown Range     - 22nd March

Town v Country         - Port St Mary Range - 31st March (averages needed and Captains to arrange teams)

 

Isle of Man Rifle Association Dinner 2016.
This year’s IoMRA Annual Dinner will take place on Saturday 16th April, 2016 at The Claremont Hotel on Loch Promenade, Douglas.

 

Nigel Christian wins the W S Cowin Trophy

                Thursday evening saw the finals of the W S Cowin Trophy at Sinclair range, St Johns. The competition format is for the winner and second placed at club level to represent their clubs at the final round. It was unfortunate that Laxey were unable to field a shooter but apparently this was due to illness and injury. Some excellent results were confirmed by marker, Brian Fozard with the re-gauge system needing to be used regularly. In the final pairing of Port St Marys’ junior Ashley Gardner and Castletown rifle clubs’ Nigel Christian, the two matched each other shot for shot and a re-gauge was necessary once again to determine the winner.

Full result:-

Preliminary round :-

Nick Brown (IoMSCD)             94        v Ashley Gardner (J) (PSM)     97

Peter Webb (SBY)                   97        v Tom Lord (KM)                     98

Matthew Roosen (J) (IoMSCS)             98        v Mark Osborn (IoMSCD)       97

Nigel Christian (CSTN)            98        v David Lord (KM)                   97

Steve Callus (IoMSCS)                         v BYE

Julian Teare (SBY)                               v BYE

Eddie Maddrell (PSM)                        v BYE

Richard Arthur                                    v BYE

1st round:-

Ashley Gardner                       98        v Steve Callus                          97

Tom Lord                                 98 (re-gauged to 97) 

v Julian Teare 98 (re-gauged to 98)

Matthew Roosen                     96        v Eddie Maddrell                    94

Nigel Christian                        96 (re-gauged to 96)

v Richard Arthur 96 (re-gauged to 95)

Semi-Final:-

Ashley Gardner                       98        v Julian Teare                          97

Matthew Roosen                     94        v Nigel Christian                     96

Final:-

Ashley Gardner                       97 (re-gauged to 95)

v Nigel Christian 97 (re-gauged to 96) Winner

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