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ENGLISH OPEN DTL

HELD AT BYWELL SHOOTING GROUND

ON 11TH JUNE 2023

For the second consecutive year the East Midlands Regional team picked up the Regional Team trophy. 

L-R - Stuart Whitehead, Steve Janes, Curtis Woolley (team captain), Marty Smith, Conor Harris, Lee Wilcoxson

What a weekend for our East Midlands shooters with plenty of personal achievements.  For once Bywell Shooting Ground was bathed in sunshine for the entire weekend which always makes shooting more pleasurable but at the same time makes the competition tougher as the variable of battling the elements is diminished.

But the results we were all waiting for was for the much-coveted Regional Team Trophy.  It tends to be a battle between the North Region and the East Midlands with some very tight margins every year but following our success last year we were keen to do it again this year and do it we did.  With team captain, Curtis Woolley, leading the way with 100/298 the rest of the team demonstrated an enviable consistency – Steve Janes (Beds), Connor Harris (Leics) both on 100/297, Geoff Howlett (Suffolk) 99/297, Stuart Whitehead (Lincs) 99/296, Paul Neal (Suffolk) 100/294, Lee Wilcoxson (Notts) 98/287, Marty Smith (Lincs) 97/287, Paul Meakin (Notts) 97/286, Mark Shaw (Lincs) 97/284 but every one of these superb scores was needed as we ran out the winners by just 6 points.  Huge congratulations to the team for a good job well done.