Happy New Year to you all. Christmas is over again for another year and I hope Santa brought you everything you wanted, especially all the archery kit you needed. He didn’t? Never mind, you’ve been saving all you pocket money for that haven’t you? Neal has some winter outdoor sessions planned so we can all work off that seasonal food and keep our long distance shooting up to scratch for the forthcoming summer season. The outdoor season seems a long way off particularly during this cold spell, but every year we find that April seems to suddenly appear and we’ve all forgotten our sight marks with the ensuing mad panic to be ready for the first 70m competition in mid April. Steve Fenton is also planning the some club rounds, a 3D fun shoot in March and following the success of the last year’s club championships, hopes to run the event again in September. However, before all that, there are still a few indoor tournaments left and Martin needs your scores for the Andy Harris and Portsmouth league matches. Lastly, we must congratulate Alex Body for winning silver medal at the Junior National Indoor Championships in December, but even better than that, won his class and claimed a National Record at the Essex County Field Championships in October. Well done Alex and keep up the good work. Mayflower Junior Archers Junior News Issue No. 16 January 2011 Inside this issue: Tournament Round up 2 Tournament Round up continued 3 Records update League update 4 November Challenge Puzzle corner 5 Tournament Diary 6 Various award schemes 7 Club Diary National Awards Back page Mayflower Christmas Fun Shoot Didn’t ‘Santa’ Steve do well for the Christmas Fun Shoot? With fun targets, a few seasonal 3D targets making a simple competition, food supplied by generous club members and mulled wine supplied by Rob forty members seemed to have a very enjoyable time. A sprinkling of snow set the scene, but fortunately the blizzard waited until the prize giving had finished. Thank you to all members who donated all the festive food and those who joined the spirit of the occasion by wearing seasonal attire. Special thanks must go to Santa Steve Fenton and all his helpers for once again organising this annual event.
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Happy New Year to you all.
Christmas is over again for another year and I hope Santa brought you
everything you wanted, especially all the archery kit you needed. He
didn’t? Never mind, you’ve been saving all you pocket money for that
haven’t you?
Neal has some winter outdoor sessions planned so we can all work off
that seasonal food and keep our long distance shooting up to scratch
for the forthcoming summer season. The outdoor season seems a long
way off particularly during this cold spell, but every year we find that
April seems to suddenly appear and we’ve all forgotten our sight marks
with the ensuing mad panic to be ready for the first 70m competition in
mid April.
Steve Fenton is also planning the some club rounds, a 3D fun shoot in
March and following the success of the last year’s club championships,
hopes to run the event again in September.
However, before all that, there are still a few indoor tournaments left
and Martin needs your scores for the Andy Harris and Portsmouth
league matches.
Lastly, we must congratulate Alex Body for winning silver medal at the
Junior National Indoor Championships in December, but even better
than that, won his class and claimed a National Record at the Essex
County Field Championships in October. Well done Alex and keep up the
good work.
Mayflower Junior Archers
Junior News
Issue No. 16
January 2011
Inside this issue:
Tournament Round up 2
Tournament Round up
continued 3
Records update
League update 4
November Challenge
Puzzle corner 5
Tournament Diary 6
Various award
schemes 7
Club Diary
National Awards
Back
page
Mayflower Christmas Fun Shoot
Didn’t ‘Santa’ Steve do well for the Christmas Fun Shoot? With fun targets, a few seasonal 3D
targets making a simple competition, food supplied by generous club members and mulled wine
supplied by Rob forty members seemed to have a very enjoyable time. A sprinkling of snow set
the scene, but fortunately the blizzard waited until the prize giving had finished.
Thank you to all members who donated all the festive food and those who joined the spirit of the
occasion by wearing seasonal attire. Special thanks must go to Santa Steve Fenton and all his
helpers for once again organising this annual event.
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Tournament Round up
Essex & Open FITA Field Championships, 3rd October
This was the last in the County Championship series and is always a good event. It is open for archers of
any ability and even if you don’t do well, it is a walk in the woods shooting arrows and making new friends
with the same interest. A pleasant way to spend a day.
Once again Mayflower juniors did very well for themselves with County and National records broken and
arrowhead awards claimed.
Sophie Brown Lady u15 compound unlimited 1 Essex 1 Open
Joe Franklin Gent u18 compound unlimited 1 Essex 2 Open
David Fall Gent u18 compound unlimited 2 Essex 3 Open
Mark Robinson Gent u18 compound unlimited 3 Essex 4 Open
Sam Yeates Gent u18 freestyle 2 Essex 3 Open
Alan Vale Gent u15 freestyle 1 Essex 1 Open
James Howell Gent u15 freestyle 2 Essex 2 Open
Alex Body Gent u12 freestyle 1 Essex 1 Open and claimed a National Record
Luke Wiseman from Chelmsford Tudor Rose also claimed a National Record as gent u15 compound.
Who was going to write a few notes for me to add here?
Racketts Portsmouth, 24th October
Always a popular event in the area, but not well supported by Mayflower members this time. Perhaps it
was because the Mayflower fun shoot was on. Those that did enter showed a good account of themselves.
Well done Sam Yeates, Alex Body and Alan Vale with a Silver medal for Joe Franklin.
Mayflower FITA18, 31st October
A very popular event and probably the first of the local Record Status tourna-
ments of the season. Also popular with junior members from around the county.
Well done to Sam Yeates and Alex Body with a gold medal for Joe Franklin and
silver medal for Sophie Brown while Daisy Clarke decided it was her turn to claim
a National Record.
Clophill AC FITA18, Ampthill, Beds, 11th December
Joe Franklin decided to venture afar for this very popular World Record Status event and managed to
come home with a bronze medal.
Racketts Worcester, 12th December
This Worcester round always fill up early, probably because of it’s unusual target
faces, scoring and the fun element where fancy dress is encouraged. However, it was
not very popular with Mayflower this time.
As Joe had entered this event as well he found himself hot footing it back from
Bedfordshire. Who was doing all the driving? Still, at least it was worthwhile having
claimed a county record for the double Worcester round. Well done Joe.
Alan Vale was the only other member who entered so well done to him as well.
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Tournament Round up, continued
Junior National Indoor Championships, Telford, 4th December
This type of event was a first for the National Championships. In the past, the junior champs were held
over two days in December and the senior champs over two days in February. This year, the size of the
International centre at Telford had the space for around 50 bosses thus accommodating all the juniors
on Saturday with a senior back to back tournament, all senior championships on Sunday and all the trade
stands as well. A real archery festival.
Sadly, because of the snowfall earlier in the week, a lot of participants felt that they could not make the
journey to Telford and Mayflower had their share of ‘no shows’.
Despite the weather, Mayflower and Essex had some good results.
Alex Body Jun Gent u 12 Recurve Sliver medal
Sophie Brown Jun Lady u16 Compound 5th
Joe Franklin Jun Gent u18 Compound 7th
Meanwhile other Essex juniors were also doing well.
Daisy Clark Chelmsford Jun Lady u16 Compound Gold medal and National Champion
George Whitley Chelmsford Jun Gents u18 longbow Silver medal
Sebastian Stedman Ascham Jun Gents u14 recurve Silver medal
Luke Wiseman Chelmsford Jun Gent u14 compound Silver medal
Louise Devlin Oakfield Jun Lady u14 recurve Silver medal
Rebecca Wilson Abbey Bowman Jun Lady u18 recurve Bronze medal
Also Daisy Clark and Edward Kearse, Colchester were members of the winning England team in the Home
Nations tournament.
And then, Daisy Clark, Sophie Cole, CTR, and Sophie Brown stayed overnight for the senior competition.
The seniors shoot a FITA 18 followed by a head to head round so a quick change of sight marks and off
they went. Daisy qualified 6th, Sophie Cole qualified 23rd while Sophie Brown just missed the cut (first
32) for the head to head rounds. Unfortunately Sophie Cole went out in the 1/8th eliminations, while
Daisy beat Elayne Mclean 7-3 and Christie Westman 6-4 to lose 6-2 to Lucy Holderness who eventually
won the tournament. No shame there. All did pretty well considering their ages against some very com-
petitive senior archers.
For the first time in many years I didn’t go to either tournament. Shame, I seem to have missed a good
set of competitions.
Mayflower 3D Fun Shoot, 24th October
We did it again! Despite our favourite ‘Dell’ area being full of water, we found space for
14 foam rubber animal replicas around the field and ‘round the back’ despite the dis-
ruption of the occasional dumper truck unloading close to the course.
Around 40 members seemed to thoroughly enjoy themselves. No pressure, no prizes
and just a bit of fun.
One by one, thanks to the entry fees and contributions from the club, we are replacing
our menagerie. Let’s just hope they don’t
fight amongst themselves between shoots.
The next shoot is expected to be in March.
Look out for details.
Frostbite league
Last, but not least, Lesley reports that we won both Recurve and compound matches in November. Junior
scores were Recurve; Sam Yeates, James Howell and Alex Body. Compound; Joe Franklin, Sophie Brown.
December we won the compound and drew on score for recurve but lost out on the number of golds.
Junior scores were Recurve, Sam Yeates; Compound; Mark Robinson and David Fall.
The Frostbite league is held on the same day as Junior outdoor sessions and assembly is at 12.30.
Records update
Wow, some of you seem to have been busy gaining records, improving handicaps and supporting the league
matches. Alex Body has submitted 2 JMB scores so just needs one more. Excellent in his first year with
Mayflower.
Recent County Records ratified were:
Joe Franklin: Metric 1 Worcester (maximum score of 300!)
Sophie Brown: Short Western
Sam Yeates: Single and Double Metric Clout
Mark Robinson: Single and Double Metric Clout
Recent County Record claims not yet ratified:
Joe Franklin: Portsmouth Triple spot Double Portsmouth Double Worcester
Martin has also supplied an excerpt from the outdoor handicap table for active juniors.
For Compound:
Surname Forename Sex Handicap Class Age
Franklin Joseph M 21 JB 17
Brown Sophie F 26 JB 14
Robinson Mark M 44 1st 16
Vidgeon-Hart Eleanor F 46 JB 15
And Recurve:
Surname Forename Sex Handicap Class Age
Yeates Samuel M 37 JB 16
Howell James M 38 JB 14
Gourley Aaron M 48 1st 15
Jones Lewis M 49 U 16
Gridley James M 53 JB 11
Johnston Nicholas M 65 U 13 Classification explanation: JB = Junior Bowman; JMB = Junior Master Bowman; 1st = 1st Class; U = Unclassified
Andy Harris league
And then Martin reports that scores from Sam Yeates, James Howell, Lewis Jones and Aaron Gourley,
has meant that we’ve won 2 matches and lost one in division 2 of the Andy Harris indoor league. Sounds
good to me so keep up the good work except that Martin needs more scores for the rest of the season.
Portsmouth league
Official tables aren’t available, but indications are that Mayflower have won one match and lost one
match in division 10. Many thanks to Sophie Brown and Joe Franklin for their scores.
Handicap improvements:
Joe Franklin Ellie V-H Sam Yeates Mark Robinson
Nicholas Johnston Lewis Jones Aaron Gourley James Gridley
Straight in is Sophie Brown with H/C 26
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Answers to October quiz.
There are six Mayflower members in the photograph.
Extreme left, Philip Glover; the lady is Donna Gladwell then Alex Purser,
Matt Murdoch, Steve Fenton and Roger Glover (The answers can be found in the match reports on the club website)
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Name Class Age Bow Type Score Hits 10’s
Joseph Franklin 1 17 Compound 337 36 13
Sam Yeates 2 15 Recurve 309 36 8
Alan Vale 2 15 Recurve 297 35 6
Aaron Gourley 2 15 Recurve 290 36 5
Alex Body 4 11 Recurve 327 36 14
Sophie Brown 22 14 Compound 344 36 20
GNAS November Challenge
Thank you to members who submitted scores for the easy to enter, no frills, just scores November Chal-
lenge postal tournament. Not a good response this year, but one or two scores look promising.
A summary of the scores submitted are given below.
Puzzle Corner Sorry, there are no winners from the October quiz as everybody forgot to send their answers in.
However, thanks to Liz Daniels, we have word search for this issue.
Usual rules; words may be horizontal, vertical or diagonal and may be in reverse. Letters may be used
more than once, but not words. The winning names and solution will be given in the April issue.
Don’t forget, if you have any good ideas for a quiz, please let me know and happily include it.
Happy hunting.
D R U G C E Y L S G J T W F L
T N E F W C A D I U V E E I K
O R U W A N T R D P C G S E F
O O O O O A E G E O P R T L D
H Q G I R L E V M S V A E D D
S W T C N P F P E F U T R S N
E A H X W E E Y V N P L N L U
N E N O T T S W A U T B T I O
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F R G T H T U O M S T R O P M
A I I V R E C U R V E L Q Z O
S O T X P R O I N U J I V F C
N B R A C E B A G D R N V H S
A Q V V Z O C K G K W E C L I
B O S S W Y R Q I O D G H J O
ARCHER ARROW
BOSS BOW
BRACE COMPETITION
COMPOUND EVENT
FIELD FITA
JUDGE JUNIOR
LINE MAYFLOWER
MEDAL NATIONAL
PORTSMOUTH RECURVE
RESULTS ROUND
SENIOR SHOOT
SIGHT TARGET
WESTERN
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Tournament Diary
8th Jan Rayleigh Town Junior Portsmouth Thundersley, Essex
9th Jan Rayleigh Town Senior Portsmouth Thundersley, Essex
16th Jan Guildford Archery Club FITA 25 Guildford, Surrey RS
23rd Jan Ely Archers FITA 25 Littleport, Cambridgeshire WRS
30th Jan Raydon Hall A C American (Indoor) Wix Essex
5/6th Feb Kestrels Archery Club Worcester Sandy, Bedfordshire RS
6th Feb Braintree Bowmen Worcester Halstead, Essex
13th Feb Tudor Archers Valentine shoot FITA 25 Sudbury, Suffolk
13th Feb Aquarius AC Portsmouth Barnet, Hertfordshire
27th Feb Racketts AC Portsmouth round Basildon FULL
5th Mar Clophill Archery Club Portsmouth - Juniors Ampthill, Bedfordshire RS
6th Mar Sussex County AA & SCAS Portsmouth Crawley, Sussex RS
13th Mar ECAA Indoor Champs FITA 25 Brentwood RS
2/3rd Apr Panther Bowhunters FITA 24 target West Hanningfield RS
12 marked and 12 unmarked FITA Field targets each day
10/11th Apr Clophill Archery Club FITA 70m Ampthill, Bedfordshire WRS FULL
17th Apr Essex County AA Clout Championships Woodford Green, Essex RS
Annually at the AGM, Essex County award the ‘Millennium’ trophy to the
county junior member entering and gaining the highest position in all five
of the county championship events. Now you have had the opportunity for
Clout training, there is nothing to stop you entering all five. The events
are the Indoor in March, Clout in April, Target in June, FITA in July and
Field in October. Go for it!
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