BLUE Lake Archers were active both on the range and behind the scenes over the past week, with plans to be one host venue for the upcoming championships.
The club has submitted an application for running as one of the venues for the 2022 National and State Indoor Championships to be held on July 10.
The Blue Lake Archers has been one of the host venues previously, in both 2016 and 2017.
Meanwhile, last Friday night local indoor competition saw a twin round of Australian indoor 18 metre archery, a good warm up for the first half of the indoor championship that is identical twin event.
Locally the scores for both rounds are independent rather than accumulative as in the championship, which allows the chance for two winners on the night.
As the event unfolded the finishing order was identical in both rounds.
Round 1 had two personal best scores noted and appropriately that was reflected in Tamika Mullan and Jeff Puckridge topping the adjusted scores.
Mullan broke out of the benchmark 300 points to win the night by nine points over Puckridge.
The pair also shared the bragging rights for the best off-the-bow score of 282 points.
Peter Donhardt was testing his bow without his usual stabiliser and had an interesting tussle with Paul Freeman throughout the two rounds.
The second round played out with Mullan improving her PB by another point to secure a repeat win.
Freeman regained his accuracy to card the best off-the-bow score of 284 points but his adjusted score fell one point shy of dislodging Puckridge from second place.
Sunday afternoon it was touch and go for the scheduled outdoor round to be relocated to the indoor range.
Occasion drizzle drifted over the Corriedale Park range during a pre-competition coaching session but the archers decided to chance the conditions and hedged their bets by running a shorter event, a 60-arrow round over 50 metres on the 122cm target face.
The tail wind allowed for reasonable accuracy and a brief flurry of drizzle during the event did not affect or delay the archers.
At the conclusion of the day the adjusted scores revealed three archers had pushed over the benchmark of 600 points for the round – Mullan, Puckridge and Graham Lock.
Ben Kilsby had the best off-the-bow score, an impressive 583 from a possible 600 points.
Mullan had the winning adjusted score to bag a hat-trick of wins for the weekend, claiming the adjusted score win 19 points clear of Puckridge.
Indoor archery continues this week at Blue Lake Gymnastics Club, Malseed Park, Friday at 7pm, followed by outdoor archery at Corriedale Park from 12.30pm Sunday.
Australian Indoor 18 metre, Round 1, handicap scored, benchmark 300 points: Tamika Mullan 307 (off the bow 282 PB ); Jeff Puckridge 298 (282 PB); Paul Freeman 290 (278); Peter Donhardt 289 (259).
Australian Indoor 18 metre, Round 2, handicap scored, benchmark 300 points: Tamika Mullan 305 (off the bow 283 PB); Jeff Puckridge 297 (281); Paul Freeman 296 (284); Peter Donhardt 290 (260).
Soggy Sunday outdoor round, handicap scored, benchmark 900 points: Tamika Mullan 623 (off the bow 557); Jeff Puckridge 604 (552); Graham Lock 603 (560); Ben Kilsby 597 (583); Paul Freeman 581 (534).
