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Ditchling recurve teams did very well in the Selby Winter Postal League winning both Division 12 Portsmouth and Division 9 Frostbite, and our longbow archers came a close second in their division.

In the BA Postal League, recurve outshone their rivals in Division 6 with another first and made 3rd in Division 5.

Sussex County Indoor Championships – 28th January – Portsmouth round

Congratulations to all archers – we had some fantastic results!

Barebow Women:

2nd Mel Woolgar

Recurve Men:

2nd Ben Green

10th Josh Wild

Recurve Women:

7th Julia Johnson

Asiatic Bow:

1st Toby Cronshaw

Recurve under 14s :

2nd Shivaansh Garg

Recurve under 12s:

2nd Soham Garg

Many congratulations to Zara for a great 1^st place on an extremely windy field yesterday. Competing in the ladies’ compound at the Sussex County Championships she achieved a brilliant first place!

One of our longbow archers, Paul Campion made 2^nd in the men’s longbow section despite the challenging wind. Paul said, ‘I totally enjoyed the challenge of shooting in the very windy conditions. And had a very enjoyable morning.”

In the afternoon, our two other archers, Ben Green (recurve) and Iain Cadle (barebow), didn’t fare as well due to the tricky conditions. Ben said, ‘There were quite a few ends running close to the time limit. On one end 70 seconds had gone before I got the first shot off leaving only 30 seconds for the last 2 arrows.’

Congratulations to all the winners. Full results on Sussex County Archery.

Down on the archery field at Ditchling, we had trees down and the cricket screen even blew over the fence! So we realise how tough the conditions were down on the coast in Angmering.

Congratulations to Mel Woolgar and Vince for their 1st and 2nd place in Barebow, and Compound at Six Villages in West Sussex on 2 July 2023.

Mel said, “It was a dry but cloudy start to the day, there were 7 targets out, two details on each with a max of 6 per target, all mixed abilities with the novices and juniors taking on the challenge of a Burntwood American. The more experienced archers opted for the Standard American round 2.5 dozen at 60, 50 and 40 yards.”

Although it was a good day for our neighbours Cuckfield who took most of the awards, Ditchling archers Mel, came first in ladies Barebow and Vince, 2nd in Compound, unfortunately a couple of broken nocks scuppered his chances to take top spot.

Many thanks to Six Villages for a great day out for both novices and experienced archers. Mel said,” I recommend it, and encourage others to enter next year!

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