AUGUST COUNTY REPORT

Grimwood’s 98 and a Hawkins Handful

The Lincolnshire English Skeet Championship was hosted at The Priory Clay Target Centre on Sunday 9th August, with 41 shooters taking on a 100-bird card in the county’s premier skeet event of the year. And what a day for the county — a class card at the top, strength in depth right through the leaderboard, and yet another chapter in what’s becoming the summer story of the Lincolnshire youth ranks.

Grimwood Takes it in Style

Heading the field with a superb 98/100 was Martin Grimwood, taking both the Lincolnshire Championship and the Top Veteran title in one clean sweep. It’s a card that would have held its own at any UK open skeet shoot, let alone a county championship — the kind of round where the pressure only builds as the score stays clean. A quite outstanding day at the office.

Behind him, Lincolnshire’s depth at the top of the leaderboard was on full show. Douglas Moore posted a brilliant 97/100 to sit second in the county rankings, and Billy Caton continued his outstanding summer with a 96/100 to take the Top Senior title. That’s Billy’s third county title of the summer — English Sporting Champion in June, All Round Champion in July, and now Top Senior at English Skeet. A Caton hat-trick of category honours across three very different disciplines.

Baker Top of the Ladies

Jacqueline Baker took the Lincolnshire Ladies title with an excellent 84/100, leading home Nicola Bradley (80) and Elżbieta MacGreggor-White (71). A well-earned county championship win for Jacqueline, and a strong showing for the county’s ladies contingent across the disciplines.

Hawkins Takes Junior — and Makes It Five

Harry Hawkins claimed the Junior title on 78/100 — and in doing so extended his remarkable summer run to a full FIVE county youth championships across five months and five different disciplines. DTL in May, ABT and English Sporting in June, All Round in July, and now English Skeet in August. Trap, sporting, all round, and skeet — every major discipline the county contests, category title on the board. James Harvey followed on 76/100, keeping Lincolnshire well represented at the top of the county youth ranks. It’s a summer that most senior shooters would be proud of, let alone a young shooter, and one that thoroughly deserves the recognition.

A Domestic Aside

A final personal note: your correspondent shot 84/100 on the day, four points clear of his wife Nicola on 80. Some readers may recall a certain ESKD Championship back in May, where the same wife took County honours by a single point, leaving me one place behind and offering “absolutely no further comment.” The scoreboard, at least for this month, has been rebalanced. Whether household bragging rights have been fully restored is a matter for private negotiation.

Wrap-Up

A cracking day of skeet, a masterclass from Martin Grimwood, another notch for the Caton belt, and Harry Hawkins doing what Harry Hawkins does. Lincolnshire in fine fettle heading into the back end of the season.