As Predicted in the Blog in August, Liz Bowyer held on to to her lead and was ranked Number Two in the National Clout Rankings. Russ French was ranked number seven and Jon Stafford number eight. Scores generally were higher than in 2007, in spite of the poor weather through much of 2008.
Will Martin scored a staggering 580 in the November BA Postal League match and broke a long-standing Junior record for the Portsmouth Round
Arundown became National Recurve Bow Champions at only the second visit to the National Championships. Liz Bowyer won the Bronze in the Ladies Recurve division, Jon Stafford was 6th, Russell French 7th and Rod Brown 10th. Graham Brown was 8th in the Gents Longbow class.
Emily Cobden had a great run of successes in July 2008, winning the Junior Lady prize in the Burntwood FITA and her age-group prize in the Bristol Rounds at the County Championship Meeting, and then going on to win her Age-Group in the County Junior Shoot and equalling the score of the over-all winner, only […]
Two achievements for Liz Bowyer during the Summer of 2008 – First, she scored 225 at the Bowflights Clout in Birmingham and won her Gold Tassel Award, and then she was clear winner at the Herts Clout Tournament (seen above collecting the Most Clouts trophy) as well as several other Clout tournaments.
Liz Bowyer became the Southern Counties Ladies Champion, and Jon Stafford won the award for Most Clouts as well as coming third in the Gents competition.
Medals for both our ladies at this year’s shoot held at the Worthing Leisure Centre. Emily Cobden was outright Junior Lady Champion, and Liz Bowyer took the Silver Medal in the adult recurve competition.
Pip Tucknott won the Silver and Will Martin the Bronze medals at the SCAS Championships held at HMS Collingwood at Fareham, after a nail-biting side-by-side contest.