LINCOLNSHIRE ALL ROUND CHAMPIONSHIP

HELD AT

THE PRIORY CLAY TARGET CENTRE

ON SUNDAY, 20TH JULY 2025

 

 

Lincolnshire All Round Champions 2025

L-R Phil Thomas (Veteran Champion & A class), Billy Cook (B class), Billy Caton (Lincolnshire champion & High Gun), Jackie Houghton (Ladies Champion), James Harvey (Junior Champion)

 

OK, we have been praying for rain but we didn't actually mean on the day of our All Round but anyway who are we to say.  All Rounds are always popular so the need for extra squads meant an early start for some with the first squad going out at 9.0 am but they, at least, had the consolation of staying dry.  It wasn't long before some pretty good scores started to appear on the board.  A clutch of people kicked off with 25 straight on single barrel, Richard Gray, David Johnson, Marvin Houghton and Billy Cook but an All Round is all about consistency at all 4 disciplines.  Top of the leaderboard for a long time was Phil Thomas who did, indeed, demonstrate that consistency scoring 23, 23, 22, 21 (89).  When Lee Sallabanks final score of 23, 21, 22, 23 (89) appeared it looked like we were heading for shoot with single barrel having been drawn out of the hat ready.  In the end, on the last squad of the day, it came down to the "Battle of the Billy's" as last year's winner Billy Cook went into the sporting 7 points down put hotly pursued by Billy Caton who was just 5 points down with Billy Caton running out the eventual winner.

With the possibility of a shoot off now removed Phil Thomas's score of 89 gave him the veterans title and A class.  Lee Sallabanks, classified on the day, won AA class and Billy Cook, also classified on the day, took B class.  Count back had to be used to determine the C class winner as both Brian Loader and Nicola Mason had left the ground with Brian running out the winner due to his last discipline sporting score.

The event attracted a good entry of ladies with 6 ladies competing for the title with Jackie Houghton picking up the award with a very consistent 78.  There was some comment made about family bragging rights for the sporting but I couldn't possibly comment on that!  Runner up was Nicola Mason.  Nicola is showing consistent improvement this year and is regularly featuring amongst the winners both for Lincolnshire and East Midlands. 

James Harvey is following in the footsteps of father, Andy, this year securing his first championship title as he picked up the award for juniors.  I am sure there will be many more to follow.

The Lincolnshire team will be selected from this event.  The results to be published shortly.

Thanks to all at The Priory for a very well run and successful event with special thanks to the referees who braved the elements scoring the skeet and sporting layouts.  The returned score cards were very soggy!

 

RESULTS

CATEGORY/CLASS	NAME	SCORE
HIGH GUN	BILLY CATON	91
AA CLASS	LEE SALLABANKS	89
A CLASS	PHIL THOMAS	89
B CLASS	BILLY COOK	90
C CLASS	BRIAN LOADER	71
LADIES	JACKIE HOUGHTON	78
JUNIORS	JAMES HARVEY	49
VETERANS	PHIL THOMAS	89