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Harry is County Indoor Champion

16th February 2017Ely ArchersEly Archers Archery Newsarchery county champion, cambridgeshire county champion

Harry is Cambridgeshire County Indoor Junior Champion…again!

Harry won the junior gents recurve title by shooting 536 in 2016, this year in 2017 Harry shot 549 to take the title.

The event was held at the 23rd Open Indoor Tournament run by Jolly Archers on Sunday 12th February.

We would like to see some more Ely Archers in attendance in 2018 – especially barebow ladies and gents as well as recurve archers from the club.

Cambridgeshire County Indoor Championship Archery Results 2017.

Valentines Shoot Results

12th February 2017Ely ArchersEly Archers Archery Newsvalentines shoot

Today we held our annual Valentines Shoot. Ian had designed and printed us some special targets based around a Worcester round shooting 5 arrows per end.

We used handicaps today to make the shooting fair. The first 3 places went to Rob, Alison and Malcolm.

Maggie shot an impressive barebow 10 10 10 end.

Well done to Trevor for getting his 2nd ‘D’ class score of 508 today whilst shooting a triple spot Portsmouth round. One more to go!

Valentines 10 10 10

Valentines 2017 Winners

Chilly Frostbite

11th February 2017Ely ArchersEly Archers Archery Newsfrostbite

A chilly 1.5 degree Frostbite today with snow flurries. Even the kettle had trouble boiling!

It was colder than last time when we shot on the 1st week of January.

This didn’t stop Malcolm though beating his previous barebow club record by 10 points with a score of 237. Dennis also scored an impressive 346 on his compound.

Rob also shot 227 on his barebow a big improvement on his last Frostbite score of 171.Ian also joined us for the first time and scored 245.

One more Frostbite next month.

Frostbite February 2017

Frostbite Feb 2017 Tea Timeo

Triple Spot Portsmouth Week

5th February 2017Ely ArchersEly Archers Archery Newstriple spot portsmouth

Today we tried a Portsmouth with a twist – triple spot Portsmouth. So we now have 3 new club records from Maggie with a ladies barebow record of 414, Malcolm with the men’s barebow club record of 426 and Ian with the men’s recurve record of 545.

Trevor scored a solid 519 – his first ‘D’ score of this indoor season, 2 more like this please!

Personal bests for everyone else!

Pictured is Trevor’s 10 10 10 end.

Trevor 10 10 10 Portsmouth Triple Spot

Next Week

Valentines shoot – Ian has produced some special Valentines target faces for us, so we’ll shoot those and the winner can have a special prize!

The Black and White Worcester

29th January 2017Ely ArchersEly Archers Archery Newsworcester

Black and white Worcester targets today with 10 of us submitting scores. Ian had the best recurve gents score of the day and PB of 257. There were also personal bests from Bart, Harry, Malcolm, Steve and Mike Williamson.

Jordan has gained his ‘F’ badge and Steve has gained his ‘E’ indoor badge. Well done.

Next Week – Portsmouth with a twist – a standard Portsmouth but shooting on 3 spot targets.