Sussex Archers at National Clout Championships

Thursday, October 20th, 2011

Jon Stafford won the Silver Medal in the Gentlemen Recurve Class at the 2011 GNAS Championships at Bradford with a score of 199. Though not a personal best, this is a 30 points improvement on previous Nationals, and included a storming second half of 107 to finish 13 points behind the defending champion.
His Club, Arundown, won the Recurve Team trophy with a combined score of 530. The other team members were Liz Bowyer and Rod Brown, beating Stalybridge, the winners in 2009 and 2010, by 25 points. Click here for full results.

* Sussex at 60 * Shoot Results

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

SCAA60-14Happy Birthday to SCAA!

To View the results Click Here > Results as PDF –   Results as Webpage

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2011 Intercounties Successes

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

Southern Intercounties Combined Senior & Junior Championships
- Senior Team Managers Report

This years Intercounty tournament was held at Kent University, and 9 counties accepted the Southern Counties Archery Society’s invitation to enter teams.
The Sussex teams arrived bright and early, and despite the horrendous weather forecast of high winds and rain, the day turned out to be a bright sunny one, although the wind was very strong.

Feel the wind in those poplars...

Feel the wind in those poplars...

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More success for Sussex Field archers

Thursday, August 11th, 2011
Shooting in conditions that were sometimes rainy & windy, our archers made the best of the home advantage at the SCAS Intercounties Field Championships by winning every category except Longbow, and winning the overall combined team trophy too.
The winning teams were…
Traditional Champions                     Paul Castle & Don McCallum
Barebow Champions                       Steve Baldwin & David Short
Recurve Champions                        Ken Burge & Heather Duggan
Compound Unlimited Champions     Gary Cole & Chris Keate
Mixed Team Champions                 Gary Cole, Ken Burge & Steve Baldwin

Ken Burge, Gary Cole, Paul Castle, Heather Duggan and Wendy Sinclair all topped their individual divisions.
Full results may found Here
Congratulations to all of our teams. The tournament was held in the grounds of Kingsbury House near Rotherfield, East Sussex, the sixth major shoot there, and regrettably it will be the last. Sussex owes Pauline and Cliff, and Geoff and Elaine, a big vote of thanks for hosting some very high-profile shoots.

More Honours for Sussex Archers

Friday, August 5th, 2011

Two young Sussex Archers were part of the England teams which won the Junior EuroNations meeting at Nottingham last weekend shooting against teams from Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
Bryony Pitman of Worthing AC (Recurve) and Pip Tucknott (Compound) were also very well paced in the Individual Competition on the following day, being First Lady and Second Gent in their Bowstyles.  The results are here

More Winners from the Southern Counties Field Championships…

Wendy Sinclair of Worthing AC was the Lady barebow Champion.

Shaun Duggan (Crawley – Recurve) and Adam Stevens (Eastbourne – Barebow) were both Second in their Classes. The results are here

Regional Field Champions

Saturday, July 30th, 2011

SCASfield Champs2011Adele McPeake of Friars Gate shooting Recurve Freestyle and Paul Castle of Eastbourne shooting Recurve Traditional were placed first in their classes at the Southern Counties Field Championships at Watership Down on 24th July

County Championships Scores Summaries

Tuesday, July 12th, 2011

SUNDAY SCORES and PLACINGS

Click here to see Award Winners
Click here to see all Scores
There were 16 Rose Award Claims

SATURDAY SCORES and PLACINGS

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CLICK HERE to see Pictures from Sunday

CLICK HERE to go to the Championships Page

2011 Junior National Outdoor Championships

Monday, July 4th, 2011

Sussex scores from the 2011 Junior National Championships.

Saturday 2nd July, Junior FITA Star

Junior Ladies Recurve Metric 3, 1st Bryony Pitman, 1317.

Junior Gentlemen Compound Metric 1, 3rd Pip Tucknott, 1365.

Junior Gentlemen Compound Metric 1, 10th Peter Moore, 1322.

Junior Gentlemen Recurve Metric 1, 11th Will Martin, 1168.

Bryony Pitman and Pip Tucknott were members of the England team that took first place in the Home Nations match.  Both have also been selected for the England team at the Junior Euronations match to be held in Nottingham on 23rd and 24th July.

Sunday 3rd July, Junior National Outdoor Championships

Junior Gentlemen Compound York, 2nd Pip Tucknott, 1240.

Junior Ladies Recurve Bristol 3, 2nd Bryony Pitman, 1222.

Junior Gentlemen Compound Bristol 1, 7th Peter Moore, 1242.

Junior Gentlemen Recurve Bristol 1, 7th Will Martin, 1120.

To download the full results from the tournament, click here.

Sussex wins SCAS Clout Championships

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

The Sussex team of Liz Bowyer, Jon Stafford, Richard Britton and Rod Brown took first place at the Southern Counties Regional Championships at Dunstable on 5th June.