Corkill crowned winner in Manx Skeet Championship
Report by Peter Kelly:
The IOM Clay Pigeon Shooting club hosted the annual Trap Medley - 16 competitors took to the stands in near ideal conditions.
With both DTL and Single Barrel DTL being shot on both ranges the leaders before the final discipline ABT were, in first place was DTL specialist Phil Ward with 136 points, in second place on 128 was veteran Jack Clague with John Moore in third place on 126.
We then had four shooters on 125, junior Arran Wade, Peter Kelly and the Craine boys Calum and Steven.
The last discipline, ABT was shot in reverse order of three squads, in the first squad Mike Parr had the best score of 66 with Rob Corlett scoring 63, in the second squad Steven Craine and Stan Skinner had the best scores with 69 points followed by George Davies on 66.
In the last squad were leader Phil Ward, Jack Clague, John Moore, Peter Kelly, Arran Wade and Calum Craine.
Once all the scores were checked we had the following results - the new Trap Medley Champion is Phil Ward with the only shooter to break the 200 barrier with 205 points in second place on 194 was Steven Craine with Junior Arran Wade third on 191.
Results
1st P Ward 73DTL,63SB,69ABT=205
2nd S Craine 71,54,69=194
3rd A Wade jnr 68,57,66=191
4th G Davies 57,66,66=189
5th P Kelly 68,57,66=188
6th J Moore 66,60,60=186.
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On bank holiday Monday the Manx Skeet Championship was held kindly sponsored once again by John Moore and we had a new champion in Jeff Corkill scoring 45 points.
We had a three-way tie for second place between A class shooters Dave Corlett, Paul Mihailovits and C class Roman Sammer on 44 points
Results
Highgun - J Corkill 23,22=45,
A Class =1st D Corlett,P Mihailovits 23,21=44, 3rd J Moore 20,20=40
C Class 1st R Sammer 22,22=44,2nd D Morgan 20,17=37,3rd M Hepworth 15,17=32
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In the afternoon the Manx Petroleum's NASSA skeet competition was held and we had joint winners with Stan Cross and Paul Mihailovits tying for first place with 48 points each, in third place on 47 was Dave Corlett with Jeff Corkill taking forth place with 46 points followed by Roman Sammer in fifth place on 45 and to round of the top six were John Moore and junior Zac Bellhouse with 42 points.
Results
=1st S Cross 24,24,P Mihailovits 23,25=48
3rd D Corlett 24,23=47
4th J Corkill 22,24=46
5th R Sammer 23,22=45
=6th J Moore 21,21,Z Bellhouse jnr 19,23=42
Next week is the fifth rounds of the Tower Insurance DTL in the morning with the fifth rounds of the Sadler Agricultural Supplies ABT and the Manx Petroleum's Olympic skeet in the afternoon at 1pm