2008 NEWS
Shooting Dates for Xmas Period
Please note the following dates for indoor shooting over the Christmas
period.
Last day of shooting:-
First date in the new year:-
This means there is no shooting on Sunday 28th December &
Sunday 4th January or Tuesday 30th December. Hope you all have a Merry
Christmas and Great New Year.
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All members please note shooting this
Sunday 26th October will take place in the big sports hall at Pensby usual session times apply. However there will
be no shooting next Tuesday 28th October. Normal arrangements will be
back on Sunday 2nd November.
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Back Indoors
All members please note we are back indoors from Tuesday 7th October.
Dates for the indoor period are
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Neston Company of Archers XMAS Party
To all Neston C of A members, it is proposed to have an XMAS party / buffet
at the Wirral Rugby Club on Friday 12th December 19.30 -
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New & Old (actually both old but who
am I to talk?)
The future looks good as old hands step up a level and new members press
hard.
Firstly well done to Graeme Steele (old hand - sorry mate your not a spring
chicken anymore) who despite constantly changing / fiddling / tweaking his bow
finished 2nd in the gents compound at the Cheshire Championships at
Other results over the Cheshire Weekend were Carol Morris-Lewis 1st for
As for new archers, although he seems to have been around
for ages, well done to Steve Povey. He
shot in the New Century Novices shoot for first year archers and finished 1st
in the gents compound. This was despite shooting
at the wrong target (twice I think), don't worry Steve
most of us have done that several times.
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A 'Tale' of 'Rough' Weather
It is nice to see that you can rely on some things not changing these days
and for the past two years the weather at New Century's shoot in Macclesfield has
remained constant, that is to say very rough. Strong westerly winds had
nothing stopping them as they brought heavy showers flying across the shooting
field.
As usual a good number of Neston Archers were in attendance and well done to
Carol Morris-Lewis 1st ladies compound, Viv Guthrie
1st ladies longbow and Victoria Mara 2nd in the junior ladies recurve.
Malcolm and Carol also retained (it's really their trophy) the Jack and Jill
Compound trophy. Well done to all those that shot in such windy conditions.
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A 'Tail' of 'Ruff' Justice
I am sorry to say I have offended one of our club members and so this
message is my way of an apology.
To Freckles, please forgive my ignorance, of course you are also a club
mascot who has attended many shoots both home and away. I hope you accept
my apology and that both you and Ossie will both be our club mascots.
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Mad Dogs and Archers Go Out in the
Anyway there was also some Neston archers there and well done to all by being
placed in the top three of their respective fields. Carol Morris-Lewis
was very pleased by shooting a new
One last thing, Malcolm you cannot shoot another arrow if it goes 10 yards, its a 3 yard let down zone. You really need to hang on
until you have full draw on the bow....you would think a coach would know how
to shoot !!
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Club Championships
It was a good turn out for this years club
champs, representing all ages and all bow types. Very windy conditions
made shooting quite tricky, you would think with the amount of windy days we
have we would be used to it now, still the wind kept the rain off. In our
25th year it was good to have our founder member Bruce Charlton there as Lord
Paramount for the day, I hope he was pleased to see how the club is continuing
to thrive.
Award winners on the day were:-
Overall h/c Trophy Robert Spinks,
Awards based on Score
Senior Recurve Steve Morris, Senior Compound Carol
Morris-Lewis, Junior Recurve Victoria Mara, Under 12 Junior Jenny
Bathgate, Veteran Bill Judson, Longbow Viv
Guthrie, Barebow Lindsey Lawrence, Best
Gold Graeme Steele, Most Petticoats Tommy Fells, Most Golds Mark Bathgate, 25 Trophy Andy Sawyer &
Toxophilus Book Award Viv Guthrie
Well done to you all. Thanks again to our 'mad' photographer Graeme
and we all look forward to this years dvd mega motion picture. Thanks to all those who
helped with the bbq food & drink throughout the
shoot and maybe next year we will have some sun!!!
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W W W W Welsh
Whit 'Windy' Western
Well done to all Neston archers who turned out for a difficult shoot in the
recent Welsh Whit Western. Strong cross winds made shooting conditions
very tricky but club archers still managed to do very well. In no
particular order well done to the following:- Richie
Mellor 2nd gents recurve, Carol Morris-Lewis 2nd ladies compound, a clean sweep
in gents compound Mark Bathgate 1st, Graeme Steele 2nd and Malcolm Lewis 3rd,
this also gave the guys best compound team, Victoria Mara 2nd junior ladies
recurve.
It was such a good Neston turn out I would like to thank all the archers who
shot:- Richie Mellor, Carol Morris-Lewis, Mark
Bathgate, Graeme Steele, Malcolm Lewis, Victoria Mara, Steve Morris, Jenny
Bathgate, Oliver Topliss, Steve Povey,
Judith Creswell, Helen Porter.
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Bows at High Noon
Actually the Bebington Western was at
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Congratulations to the following archers for qualifying for the Cheshire
County Squad, Carol Morris-Lewis, Malcolm Lewis and Richie
Mellor.
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Summer is here, just look out the window !
All members please note that we will now be moving outside to our usual
summer venue at the Wirral Rugby Club. Sunday 13th April is the last
indoor session with the outdoor times shown on the about us page.
* * Please note this Tuesday 15th April there
will be no shooting for beginners and improvers due to a Cheshire coaches
meeting. * *
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Apologies to a talented archer and trumpet
player
I received an email from Graeme Steele saying that he 'did not wish to blow
his own trumpet but', well I say if you have any kind of talent then blow
away. Anyway apologies to Graeme for not posting the
North Wales Indoor results. He was placed 1st visiting gent
compound and 2nd overall in gents compound for a
single
Seriously, to any Neston archer that shoots well and I do not post the
results, please 'blow your own trumpet' and let me know. I will do my
best to post the results.
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A Tale of the Dark Side
and of the Force (the force of chocolate that is!)
A LONG TIME AGO IN A GALAXY FAR FAR
AWAY.................. oh no it was actually the 2nd March in the Northgate
Arena Chester. Congratulations to the Neston archers who shot at the
County Indoor Shoot. 1st places were gained by Carol Morris-Lewis, Viv Guthrie and Graeme Steele,
with a 2nd for Victoria Mara in the junior girls recurve. Special mention to Steve Povey for his
award for highest score for a first year archer. Also well done to
'Lord Vader', I mean Mark Bathgate who shot on the dark side (compound) his
first time with compound gaining a creditable 2nd place.
Fortunately for Neston, Mark was not completely seduced by the dark side and
returned to recurve to help Neston Archers gain superb results on the 24th
March in the Corus Deeside Archers Bunny Shoot.
In the gents recurve Mark came second only beaten by fellow Neston archer Richie Mellor, however the gents compound went one better
with 1st, 2nd & 3rd from Malcolm Lewis, Graeme Steele and Steve Povey respectively. In the ladies compound Carol
Morris-Lewis came 2nd and Helen Porter 3rd. Not to be outdone James
Mellor placed 1st in the junior gents recurve and Victoria Mara 1st in the
junior girls recurve. Well done all and it just shows that Neston archers
love only one thing better than archery........and that is chocolate won whilst
doing archery.
MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU
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Early seasons indoor results look very good for the clubs compound archers:-
At Orrell Archers Porstmouth
Carol Morris Lewis and Malcolm Lewis both came 2nd in the ladies and gents
compound divisions. This was followed by Carol achieving a double 1st on
both Saturday and Sunday at the Chester Indoors. The compound team of Carol,
Malcolm, Graeme Steele and Dave Fells came 3rd in the Sunday team event.
Victoria Mara gave the recurve their only shout of glory when she came 2nd in
the junior girls, come on recurve its time to catch up!! (oops
sorry thats me, must try harder).
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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL and may you achieve all this years 'golds.'