Somerset News Archive (2003)

Date: 20th November 2003

Barebow Success for Somerset Club

Date: 23rd October 2003

Inter-Counties Team Changes (again!)

It was decided at the GWAS meeting in October that the county team size will be returned to the size it was in 2002.  The team will therefore consist of: 14 Yorks (7 recurve, 5 compound, 2 longbow) and 10 Herefords (5 recurve, 3 compound, 2 longbow).  Each team will drop 1 recurve, 1 compound and 1 longbow score (from either the York or Hereford) at the end of the day to decide the regional prize winner.

Date: 25th September 2003

Inter-Counties Results

The Inter-Counties were held on the 21st September, and Somerset again figured strongly in the results.  This years competition was a two-horse race between Somerset and Dorset & Wilts, with the other two counties going home without a single trophy.  SCAA and DWAA shared the individual trophies, with Tim Jarvis and Vikki Gallop winning the Mens Compound and Ladies Recurve individual titles for Somerset, while Andrew Callaway and Sue Ryall won the Mens Recurve and Ladies Compound for DWAA.  All of the recurve team prizes went to Somerset (ladies recurve team of 3, mens recurve team of 5, and mixed recurve team of 8), thanks to strong performances from our recurve archers.  The compound team trophy and the longbow team trophy both went to DWAA.  The final trophy to be presented is always the overall team prize, and the audience was holding its breath as Janet read out the results in reverse order.  Unlike the last two years, Somerset's name was not left to last, as DWAA had taken the title ahead of Somerset by a mere 29 points in a total of over 17000!

Results

Regional County Team (11 Yorks, 5 Herefords, plus 2 longbows)

Centenary Challenge Trophy (5 Yorks, 3 Herefords, all recurve)

G.W.A.S. Challenge Silver Bugle (5 Yorks, all recurve)

Dunster Challenge Trophy (3 Herefords, all recurve)

Compound Team Trophy (2 Yorks & 2 Herefords)

Longbow Team Trophy (1 York & 1 Hereford)

The Awdry Trophy (highest scoring Lady Recurve)

Vikki Gallop - Somerset County Archery Association - 1080

The Farley Trophy (highest scoring Gentleman Recurve)

Andrew Callaway - Dorset & Wiltshire Archery Association - 1058

Chippenham Archers Salver (highest scoring Lady Compound)

Sue Ryall - Dorset & Wiltshire Archery Association - 1180

Dorset & Wiltshire Salver (highest scoring Gentleman Compound)

Tim Jarvis - Somerset County Archery Association - 1198

Date: 18th September 2003

County Team Announced

The Somerset County team for 2003 has been announced, prior to the Inter-County event this coming Sunday.  See the County Team page for the list.

Date: 11th September 2003

Website Server Change

This website has just been moved onto a new server due to problems with the old one.  During this transition period certain parts of the site may not work properly.  Please bear with me while I get the whole site back up and fully operational again.  Thanks, Webmaster.

Date: 28th August 2003

National Championship Success

Two Somerset archers recently achieved a second place at the National Target Championships at Lilleshall on the 9th & 10th August.  The first day saw near perfect archery conditions on one of the warmest weekends of the year, but the second day was quite the opposite with a massive thunderstorm rolling around the archery field.  After a lightning strike on the sub-station at one end of the field after 4 dozen arrows had been shot, the organisers decided to call the tournament off, and the results were declared after 16 dozen.

Vicki Gallop of Bowmen of Hatch finished second in the Ladies Recurve behind Naomi Folkard of WMAS.  Vicki also won the Mansell Edwards trophy for the highest score at 80yds over both days.

Tim Jarvis of Bath Archers finished second in the Gents Compound just behind Alan Hayden of DWAA.  Tim actually led after the first day, but was caught by Alan on day two during the terrible weather on Sunday.

Date: 8th July 2003

Island Games Medal Winner

Somerset archer Damian Le Gresley competed for Jersey in the Island Games last week and managed to win an individual silver in the head-to-head and also lead the recurve team to a gold in the FITA and a silver in the team head-to-head.  The games were the most successful ever for the Jersey archery team, winning a total of 9 medals in a total of 12 events.

Full results are available on the Island Games Website.

Damian shooting in the team head-to-head

The Jersey archery team

Date: 6th July 2003

SCAA & GWAS Outdoor Junior Championships

The results from this years championships is available for download here.

Date: 28th June 2003

Somerset Outdoor Championships

Congratulations to new our new county champions - Amanda Tompkins (Rec) & Mark Jones (Rec) from Puriton Gold and Dawn Davies (Comp), Tim Jarvis (Comp), Gerry Gilmour (L/B) & Eric Rowley (L/B) from Bath Archers.

The results list from this years championships is available for download here.

Date: 12th June 2003

Your County Needs Your Juniors!

Please remind all junior club members about the SCAA & GWAS Junior champs, to be held on Saturday 28th June 2003 at Burnham COA's Ground BASC, Stoddens Road, Burnham-On-Sea.

Date: 4th April 2003

Final Postal League Results

The winter postal leagues have now finished for the year, and the final results are up on the Postals page.

Congratulations to Puriton Gold who have won both of the leagues this year.

Thanks to all the clubs that took part this year, and lets see if we can get even more of the clubs involved next year - remember it is the taking part that counts!

Damian Le Gresley
SCAA Postals Organiser

Date: 16th March 2003

National Indoor Championships

Bath Archers' compound archers claimed an excellent second place in the team competition at the National Indoor Championships on Saturday.  The team consisted of Robin and Tim Jarvis and Cliff and Dawn Davies.  Somerset were 4th in the county mixed compound team competition, with the team of Robin & Tim Jarvis, Claire Davy and Cliff Davies.

In the individual competition, Robin and Tim qualified 22nd and 28th respectively to make the head-to-heads, but were both knocked out in the first round of eliminations.  Claire and Dawn qualified 12th and 14th respectively, but were also both knocked out in the first round of eliminations.  

Somerset were also represented in the Ladies Longbow category where Yvonne Oakshott from Hatch finished second.

Full results are available on the GNAS website.

Date: 14th March 2003

SCAA Fees

At the SCAA AGM on Wednesday, the proposal to raise the county fees from £3.50 to £4.00 was accepted.  The junior and student fees will also be raised pro-rata.

Date: 10th March 2003

SCAA Indoor Championships Results

Puriton Gold's recurve archers came out on top in a closely fought indoor championships at the weekend.  They scooped first place in both the ladies and gents recurve, and also in the recurve team.  Bath Archers were dominant in the longbow and gents compound, with Danesfield and Ballands taking home handfuls of medals and certificates in the junior and barebow categories respectively.

The day ran smoothly thanks to Chris Hassall and his hard-working team, with Alex Kerby doing sterling work in adjudicating over all three sessions.

Click here to view the full results

Tournament organiser Chris Hassall, and Lady Paramount Judith Martin

Ladies Recurve Champion - Amanda Tompkins

Gents Recurve Champion - Kerry Morgan

Recurve Team Champions - Puriton Gold

Date: 26th February 2003

SCAA Outdoor Championships

The entry form for the 2003 SCAA Outdoor Championships is now available on the Tournaments page.

Date: 22nd February 2003

SCAA Newsletters & Minutes

As part of further improvements to this website, I can announce that the following additions have been made to the site:

An archive of past SCAA newsletters is now available on the Newsletter page.  Enjoy!
An archive of the minutes from past SCAA committee meetings is now available on the Minutes page.
Finally, the entry form for the Somerset Indoor is available for download on the Tournaments page.

Date: 29th January 2003

Somerset AGM

The SCAA AGM will be held on Wednesday the 12th March 2003 at the Puriton Sports Club, starting at 7.45pm.  All clubs are welcome to attend.

Date: 27th January 2003

Changes to County Team Structure

At the GWAS January meeting, a new composition for the senior county team was announced.  See the County Team page for more information.

Date: 1st January 2003

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