A RELAXED evening of indoor archery and suitable weather for an outdoor archery round entertained the members of Blue Lake Archers over the weekend.
The indoor range was back to an easy-paced club-style event for Friday night, the timing gear was having a rest and all archers were able to shoot at the same time for a more-normal social atmosphere.
Two rounds of the familiar Australian 18-metre round produced two different winners.
Garry Jacques dominated the opening round, where the top four archers all equalled or exceeded the 300-point benchmark.
Jacques led home Matt Delaney by three points as Blade Delaney and Jeff Puckridge rounded out the top four.
Matt Delaney had equalled his previous personal best in the first round and went one point better in the follow-up round to set a new PB of 280 points off the bow.
Fiona Allison made a charge up the field to act as Delaney’s main rival at the top of the result list, but Delaney held off the challenge to celebrate the win and the PB for a memorable night on the indoor range.
Sunday was reasonable for a winter day, with mild wind conditions and only occasional very light drizzle that was not enough to stop the competition on the archery range.
The dual events set up on the range were a 30-metre Geelong and a triple-distance Short Canberra over 50, 40 and 30 metres.
Allan Oschar and Alex McDonell have progressed steadily with their accuracy since taking up the sport and pushed their adjusted scores out of reach of their rivals to be the leaders at the end of the day.
Oschar set a new PB and won the day 21 points clear of McDonnell, both archers exceeding their benchmarks.
A single round of indoor archery takes place at the Blue Lake Gymnastics Club, Malseed Park, Friday at 7pm, followed by the Archery Australia National and State Indoor Archery Championship at Malseed Park, Saturday at 10am.
Australian Indoor 18 metre, Round 1, handicap scored, benchmark 300 points: Garry Jacques 307 (off the bow 266); Matthew Delaney 304 (279); Blade Delaney 301 (227); Jeff Puckridge 300 (293); Paul Freeman 278 (266); Peter Donhardt 276 (253); Fiona Allison 271 (180); Seth Delaney 267 (200); Jerome Koopman 236, (off the bow only).
Australian Indoor 18 metre, Round 2, handicap scored, benchmark 300 points: Matthew Delaney 303 (off the bow 280 PB); Fiona Allison 294 (203); Jeff Puckridge 291 (284); Garry Jacques 272 (234); Jerome Koopman 237, (off the bow only); Seth Delaney 218 (151).
Outdoor rounds, handicap scored, benchmark 900 points: Allan Oschar 938, Geelong, (off the bow 662 PB); Alex McDonnell, Short Canberra, 917 (753); Seth Delaney, Geelong, 890 (749); Matthew Delaney, Short Canberra, 888 (812); Anthony Cox, Geelong, 887 (816); Jeff Puckridge, Short Canberra, 877 (842); Blade Delaney, Short Canberra, 854 (653); Dale Tschirpig, Short Canberra, 670 (off the bow only); Callum Oschar, Geelong, 449 (off the bow only).
