Somerset News Archive (2004)

Date: 28th December 2004

National Indoor Barebow Championships

At the National Barebow Indoor Championships Andrew, Jane and Louise Rees & William Wade all competed, shooting a single FITA 18 round. Jane and Andrew both finished second, with Louise winning her age group. William also shot well, despite breaking a bow limb only days before the competition and having to shoot with unfamiliar kit. This shoot also included a Home Nations match, with each country being represented by the highest scoring senior man and woman, plus the highest scoring junior. This year, Ballands/Somerset had the honour of providing the entire England Team, whilst Jane and Andrew also won the married couples competition.

Date: 22nd November 2004

Vote for Alison!

Alison Williamson has been nominated for the "Midlands Sports Personality of the Year" award and is through to the final six. The final is on the 26th Nov and Brenda Thomas wants to encourage all to vote for Alison - its just a 10pence call on 09011 903326.

Date: 10th October 2004

Do you respect your council?

Please read this open letter from your county secretary

Date: 21st September 2004

Somerset Team is Victorious Again!

The Somerset team returned to their winning ways at the Inter-Counties competition on Sunday, taking home a significant number of the trophies, including the overall team prize. Shooting conditions on the day were better than expected, and the team held off a strong challenge from DCAS to win the overall team prize by about 100 points. Our recurves were the backbone of the team once again, making up for our relative weaker areas of compound and longbow, as they won every trophy on offer namely both individual gents (Mark Jones) and individual ladies (Vikki Atkins), Hereford team, York team, and mixed team. Robin Jarvis also won the individual gents compound trophy to add to Somerset's coffers.

Results

Regional County Team (11 Recurves, 7 Compunds, 3 longbows)

1st	Somerset County Archery Association	19658
2nd	Devon & Cornwall Archery Society	19574
3rd	Dorset & Wiltshire Archery Association	19282

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

1st	Somerset County Archery Association	8280
2nd	Devon & Cornwall Archery Society	8138
3rd	Dorset & Wiltshire Archery Association	7794

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

1st	Somerset County Archery Association	5094
2nd	Devon & Cornwall Archery Society	4984
3rd	Dorset & Wiltshire Archery Association	4760

Dunster Challenge Trophy (3 Herefords, all recurve)

1st	Somerset County Archery Association	3186
2nd	Devon & Cornwall Archery Society	3154
3rd	Dorset & Wiltshire Archery Association	3028

Compound Team Trophy (2 Yorks & 2 Herefords)

1st	Dorset & Wiltshire Archery Association	4675
2nd	Somerset County Archery Association	4641
3rd	Devon & Cornwall Archery Society	4379

Longbow Team Trophy (2 Yorks & 2 Herefords)

1st	Devon & Cornwall Archery Society	1105
2nd	Dorset & Wiltshire Archery Association	903
3rd	Somerset County Archery Association	763

The Awdry Trophy (highest scoring Lady Recurve)

Vikki Gallop - Somerset County Archery Association - 1093

The Farley Trophy (highest scoring Gentleman Recurve)

Mark Jones - Somerset County Archery Association - 1073

Chippenham Archers Salver (highest scoring Lady Compound)

Sue Ryall - Dorset & Wiltshire Archery Association - 1194

Dorset & Wiltshire Salver (highest scoring Gentleman Compound)

Robin Jarvis - Somerset County Archery Association - 1230

Date: 18th September 2004

County Team Announced

The members of the Somerset County Team were announced at the Battle of Britain last Sunday prior to this Sunday's Inter-Counties competition. Representing Somerset this year are:

Gents Recurve
Mark Jones - Puriton Gold
Kevin Sheppard - University of Bath
Matt Yeates - GNAS
Kerry Morgan - Puriton Gold
Keith Elsley - Puriton Gold
Tony Usher - Wells City Archers
Tim Jackson - Bowmen of Hatch

Gents Compound
Robin Jarvis - Bath Archers
Paul Atkins - Bowmen of Hatch
Damian Le Gresley - Bath Archers
Chris Hassall - Mid Somerset Bowmen
Dave Coward - Burnham Company of Archers

Gents Longbow
John Gallop - Burnham Company of Archers
Brian Wiltshire - Bath Archers

Ladies Longbow
Gerry Gilmour - Bath Archers
A.N. Other

Ladies Recurve
Vikki Gallop - Bowmen of Hatch
Yvonne Oakshott - Bowmen of Hatch
Amanda Tompkins - Puriton Gold
Andrea Sandal - Puriton Gold
Karen Atkins - Bath Archers

Ladies Compound
Claire Davy - Bath Archers
Dawn Davies - Bath Archers
Mary Smith - Bowmen of Hatch

Good luck to them all this Sunday!

Date: 10th July 2004

County Outdoor Championships Results

The major positions at the County Outdoor Championships were reported in a news item below, but the full results are now available, and can be downloaded by clicking the link here:

Get 2004 results

Date: 28th June 2004

County Junior Outdoor Championships Results

The SCAA & GWAS Junior Championships were held at Burnham on Saturday 26th June. I was not there on the day, so can not add much detail to the results, but I hear that the conditions were rather on the damp side...

Click here for full results

Date: 27th June 2004

Grand Western Outdoor Championships Results

Somerset archers figured strongly in the Regional Championship results last weekend. A clean sweep in the compound division saw Claire Davy and Tim Jarvis win the individual trophies, and they also won the team trophy for Bath Archers with help from Damian Le Gresley. Mark Jones of Puriton Gold won the gent's recurve ahead of Kevin Sheppard (University of Bath) and Kerry Morgan (Puriton Gold), making it a clean sweep for Somerset clubs. The ladies' recurve was our weakest category this year, with Yvonne Oakshott of Hatch finishing third, but despite this, Puriton Gold still won the recurve club trophy, adding to Somerset's trophy tally. Top score in the ladies longbow also went to Somerset courtesy of Gerry Gilmour of Bath Archers, and it was only in the gents longbow where we failed to win anything.

Full results should be appearing soon on the GWAS website.

Tim Jarvis and Claire Davy displaying their matching regional compound trophies

Bath Archers - Regional Compound Team winners

A whole load of trophies for Puriton Gold! Mark holding the Gents FITA champion and GWAS champion's trophies he won. Amanda holding the recurve team trophy won by Mark, Andrea, Kerry and herself. Andrea holding Kerry Morgan's GWAS third place trophy.

Date: 17th June 2004

County Outdoor Championships Results

The 57th Somerset County Championships were held last Sunday, 13th June, at their usual venue in Dunster Castle grounds. The weather was warm and sunny, with only a moderate "Dunster Wind", but despite this, scores were still relatively low. Chris Hassall was tournament organiser, though as usual, he admitted that much of the organisation was done by the Dunster Week team headed by Janet Faralewski. Amanda Tompkins was invited as Lady Paramount to thank her for her services to the County, in particular for organising the Inter-Club for 15 years.

Full results will follow once Chris has returned home from Dunster, but here is a summary of what I can remember from the presentation, along with some pictures I took. Vicki Atkins won the Ladies Recurve ahead of Lynne Evans and Lesley Passey, and Claire Davy won the Ladies Compound. Mark Jones won the Gents Recurve ahead of Kevin Sheppard and Matt Yeates, and in the Compound Tim Jarvis beat his Dad Robin, with Paul Atkins in third. Puriton won the nominated pairs trophy thanks to Mark Jones and Amanda Tompkins.

Roll on the regional championships this weekend, and good luck to all Somerset archers!

Trophy table before the presentation

Ladies Recurve Champion - Vicki Atkins

Ladies Compound Champion - Claire Davy

Gents Recurve Champion - Mark Jones

Gents Compound Champion - Tim Jarvis

Date: 25th May 2004

Longbow Records and Scoring

Two proposals will be discussed at the next SCAA council meeting relating to longbows. The first is on the matter of longbow county records - the current rule on this is that new records can be claimed if the score is at least 50% of the current recurve record. It has been pointed out that this is rather unfair, especially for the longer outdoor rounds, so it is going to be proposed at the next meeting that this rule is scrapped. If the proposal is accepted, then all longbow archers will be asked to submit their best scores from competitions between November 2004 and March 2005 for indoor rounds and April 2005 to October 2005 for outdoor rounds. The best score for each round will then be made the county record, and then further record claims after that will be processed per the normal recurve and compound procedures.

The second is on the subject of whether county longbow competitions should have the winner decided based on hits (as is currently done) or score (as with recurve and compound). A proposal will be made at the next meeting to change it to score for the 2005 season onwards, as apparently this is what most longbow archers want.

If you have strong views on either of these matters, please put it in writing to the County Secretary, or come along to the October meeting on the 13th October at Puriton Sports Club from 7.45pm.

Date: 25th May 2004

Equipment Up For Grabs

The County has some old equipment up for grabs which has in the past been used at the Battle of Britain FITA and the Junior Championships. It has been taking up space in our equipment officer's shed, and at the recent council meeting it was decided to give the equipment out to Somerset clubs. Items will be awarded to clubs at the next SCAA council meeting based on either the highest bidder for the item (donations to go to charity), or the best reason for needing it.

Please use the form below to request items from the equipment list:

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Date: 13th May 2004

Site Upgrade Complete

This website is now fully working on its new server, so all the email aliases and mailing lists should be working properly now. I have also taken advantage of some of the services provided by the new server to offer an enhanced message board for you all to post messages on.

Date: 20th April 2004

Site Upgrade

This website is being moved to a new hosting company after various problems with the old one. Please be patient during the transition period if there are any problems with the site. I hope to have it all fully working by the end of the month.

Date: 16th March 2004

2004 AGM

The SCAA 2004 AGM was held at Puriton on the 3rd March. Minutes from the meeting are available for download here:

Date: 15th March 2004

County Indoor Championships Results

There was a surprise result in the Gents Recurve section at this year when the regional champion and firm favourite for the title, Mark Jones of Puriton, could only manage third at his county championships. Vince Green of Burnham was the victor on the day, celebrating his return to the sport after several years out. Vince shot an excellent score of 571, which was only a point off his junior record which he shot 16 years ago! Colin Fullalove of Bath also shot well to push Mark down into third.

The other main senior categories went more to expectations, with Amanda Tompkins of Puriton winning the ladies recurve, despite a bad cold, and Claire Davy and Tim Jarvis winning the Ladies and Gents Compound sections respectively. There were also many more good performances, with a total of 18 champions on the day across all the junior categories and other bow types.

As usual, the day was smoothly run, thanks to torunament organiser Chris Hassall and Mid Somerset Bowmen. Judge Andrew Chitty supervised both sessions, with Chris helping in a field captain role. Shirley Woods had a very enjoyable day as Lady Paramount.

Click here to view the full results.

Chris Hassall and Shirley Woods doing the raffle

Tournament Organiser Chris Hassall and Lady Paramount Shirley Woods doing the raffle

Ladies Compound winner

Ladies Compound Champion - Claire Davy

Gents Recurve Winner

Gents Recurve Champion - Vince Green

Gents Compound Winner

Gents Compound Champion - Tim Jarvis

Team Winner

Recurve Team Champions - Puriton Gold

Date: 26th February 2004

County Championships

Entry forms for both the indoor and outdoor championships are available on the Tournaments page.

Date: 11th February 2004

Regional Indoor Championships

Congratulations to Somerset archers Mark Jones and Claire Davy who won the gents recurve and ladies compound categories respectively at the GWAS indoor championships on Sunday, both claiming new GWAS records in the process.

Date: 11th February 2004

SCAA AGM

A reminder to all clubs that the SCAA AGM will be held at Puriton Sports Centre on Wednesday 3rd March at 7.45pm. Nominations are now open for committee membership for 2004, so if you want to get involved in running the county, please email the secretary.