Triple 6 Trophy

& Thompson Cup

nter League – The Triple 6 Competition was held at Studley this year on 14 April and as it happens this was the sixth year the competition has been held. Six shooters representing the Evesham, Redditch and Stratford leagues, each had six shots at eight diagram targets with the best six shots being scoring shots. The marking was carried out by Ian Davies (Evesham), Iain Marshall (Redditch) and Andy Smith (Stratford) with each marking the cards of two opposing teams so there was no say over the scores of their own teams. A clean bull counting for six points . The cards were kept back until the end when the results were called to avoid any disputes in scoring.

Stratford representatives were chosen taking into account the results of its own paper target competition held only a month ago and included Paul Lowe and Steve Parrack the winner and runner up in the Class A section and Ashleigh Clarke, the winner of Class B section. Lester Langford who has taken to shooting like a duck to water and has an given an impressive performance all season, Chris Reed and Andy Smith completed the six.

The most accurate shooter was Evesham’s Adie Lewis who scored 35 out of a possible 36 points with Stratford’s Andy Smith shooting 34 points. Redditch finished on 178 points, two ahead of Evesham but by a good margin Stratford came out tops with185 points and were declared worthy winners.

hompson Knockout Cup – The rescheduled match between Home Guard and Avon took place at Tiddington. It started on an even keel with 33s from Gareth Morris and Bill Fleming. Avon’s middle shooters were more accurate to give the team a five point lead. Richard Groom and Alison McMillan both shot 34s and were matched by Guard’s final shooters Alan Brookes and Andy Morris but it was Steve Ray’s 33 which brought Avon’s total to 227 points and which sealed the fate of Home Guard who finished on 223. Avon will meet Wilmcote in the semi final when Avenue will take on Binton A on 5 May at venues to be decided.

Report by Juana Everett, to be published on 21st April 2016