DOUBLE BUBBLE FOR CHRIS

A small field of just twenty one shooters made the trip to Oxton for the Regional Skeet Doubles Championships, and it was certainly an education for some, although I have to say extremely enjoyable.

A very strong westerly wind coupled with an almost constant dust cloud resembling something sent from Iceland meant for a testing day and any thoughts of enhancing your average or classification or recording a personal best  were soon blown out of the water upon first viewing of the wind effected targets.

Rennie Lowbridge from Nott’s set the pace with an amazing 93 considering the conditions on a day that where most people’s hopes were dashed on layout one as targets leapt into the air or dived for cover. One of the last squads of the day contained three worthy hopefuls, England International Johnny Hall, last year’s Champion Steve Smith and recently crowned East Mids Skeet Champion from Cambridgeshire Chris Morris. Chris amazingly raised the bar and put the title out of reach with a score of 96, a total that was worth a ton or more on any other day, Renee was pushed back into the silver medal berth but still claimed the Vets title with another local man Adrian Snell completing the final position with a bronze medal winning score of 91.

Rachel, Bex, Chris & Hazel

A trio of Ladies fought over the spoils and it was Bex Lee from Northants just doing enough to take the gold medal. Rachel Willcock from Leicestershire showed she was multi talented as she won the silver medal only a few weeks after winning her first medal in the Regional Sporting at Kibworth and Hazel Whiten from Cambridgeshire completed the medal placings by taking the bronze.

With Rennie winning the Vets title the second place spoils went the way of yet another Camb’s shooter Tony Randall with a score of 83, Tony Sockett from Leicestershire completed the 1-2-3 to take the bronze to add to his recently acquired collection.

Sadly only one Junior Joe Booth from Nott’s took up the challenge of the day, but his score of 82 was still going to be hard to beat and he should be proud that his score more than compared with that of many senior shooters..

Finally a big thank you to Reg and his staff at Oxton for looking after us all on the day.

ALL PICTURES COURTESY OF JOHN HARTOG (Beds CPSA)

Money In Classes.

AA 1st - Mickey Dore

A 1st - Chris Morris

B 1st - John Hartog