NATIONAL INTERCOUNTIES ALL ROUND

HELD AT NORTHAMPTON SHOOTING GROUND

ON SUNDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER

 

A fine autumn day greeted our teams as they filtered into Northampton Shooting Ground for the National Intercounties All Round.  The team at Northampton are pretty handy when it comes to putting on a good All Round but it can be a tricky ground to shoot and no-one can quite figure out why.  Perhaps the background in certain light conditions but to straighten a line, particularly in the trap disciplines is quite rare.  There was some very acceptable scoring across all the disciplines by both our senior and veteran teams but only John Winn had the satisfaction of being the only one all day to straighten the ABT.  As so very often happens our team score of 418 was a winning score for a while but we were eventually knocked down to third place by the home team, Northants, and Yorkshire.

Lincolnshire Senior & Veteran teams

L-R : Mike Burton, Richard Cundall, Richard Thompson, (photobombed by CPSA Chairman, John Martin), Gary Boardman, John Winn, Marvin Houghton, John Toombs, Phil Thomas, Steve Smith

Although actually a veteran, Mike Burton had been drafted into the senior team and not only finished our top scorer on a score of 90 (just 3 targets behind the overall winner) but this score was good enough to give him Veteran High Gun of the day. 

John Toombs, Marvin Houghton, Liz MacGreggor White and John Winn

 

The veteran team fared rather better.  John Winn was able to keep the momentum going and finished on 89 and was ably backed up by Marvin Houghton, who uncharacteristically dropped 2 on peg 7 on the skeet to finish on 82 and John Toombs who finished on 79.  With several squads still to go their team score of 171 was looking good with potentially only Essex who could beat them but in the end they were 7 targets ahead of Essex so were pleased to claim the team awards.

L-R : Georgina Barratt, Liz MacGreggor White, Norma Smith and Rosie Parkinson

The ladies team got off to a very steady start not being at all pleased with their DTL performance except for Liz MacGreggor White who racked up a very commendable DTL score of 19.  The other ladies, Georgina Barratt and Rosie Parkinson, began to hit their stride and things picked up for them but Liz was able to build upon her first round score with 18 ABT, 24 skeet and 20 sporting to finish on 81 a score which tied her for Ladies high gun with Yorkshire and GBR sporting team member, Rebecca Brown.  Alas for the Lincolnshire ladies, Rebecca's Yorkshire team mate, Rachel Carrie put in a final score of 70 giving them a team score of 151 to our 146 but against such worthy opponents runner up is not half bad.  

Liz MacGreggor White receiving Ladies team runners up badges (who says John Martin never smiles!)

 

A shoot off between Liz and Rebecca was needed to sort out Ladies High gun.  The selected discipline was sporting (unfortunately for Liz) and both had to shoot 5 pairs off what was a very testing stand.  Rebecca scored 6 but Liz dropped one target out of the last pair to finish on 5.

Liz MacGreggor White - shoot off

Congratulations to all our team members.  A good days shooting, lots of banter and lots of laughs - a very good day out, what more could you ask for.