This Sunday saw the 4th leg in the BUTTS
archery league take place in Birmingham. There were good results all round and
Brum fought a strong home match, securing 6 individual medals! Ashe Morgan,
current BUCS record holder, shot 589 out of a possible 600 to beat Warwick’s
Tom Hall to victory. Morgan shot an incredible 50 tens out of 60 arrows to
steal the gold from this year’s BUCS gold medallist. The bronze BUCS medal
winning trio of Francis Berti, Sam Rees and Chris Avins came in 4th,
5th and 6th with 569, 565 and 564 respectively, making
sure there were 4 Birmingham archers in the top 6.
In the ladies category success continued for Rebekah
Tipping and Catherine Jackson as they finished in 2nd and 3rd,
Rebekah getting pushed out of the top spot by Madeleine Meatyard of Warwick who
has come back from her one point defeat by Tipping at BUCS. Tipping brought
home silver in this leg with 555, and Jackson collected bronze with 544. The
top four was rounded off by UOB sport scholar Alice Cotton on 531, while Katie
Wood finished in 6th place with 520 securing 4 Birmingham archers in
the top 6 for the ladies.
There were successes in other categories too in this leg
as Birmingham entered archers from other disciplines. Dominic Quiney made his
debut for Birmingham, shooting longbow and finishing on 259 to win a gold medal
for the home team. Rebekah Tipping shot compound in the second session after
recurve in the first session and finished on 550, just 1 point below the top
lady compound.
The Birmingham novices have gone from strength to
strength this year as Tim Spankie, fresh from his 5th place at BUCS
two weeks ago, shot a new competition personal best of 523, destroying his
closest competition by 11 points! The novice gents continue the trend of 4 Birmingham
archers in the top 6, with Jamal Rahman, Guy Coop and Daniel Adams finishing in
4th, 5th and 6th with solid scores of 487, 482
and 478 respectively.
In the lady novice category, Tupa Silva finished on 479
to secure another silver medal for Birmingham in this leg, placing one medal
position ahead of this year’s BUCS indoors silver medallist from Warwick.
In the team category, Birmingham had a fantastic week with
both experienced and novice teams finishing in first place! Our novice team
have now won their fourth leg in a row and remain unbeaten!
This is the second time a double victory for Birmingham
has happened this season: in the first BUTS leg in November our experienced
team tied on points with Warwick and won first place on tens, but in this leg, Birmingham
won in style, beating Warwick by 29 points! Warwick finished 3rd
overall, behind Loughborough, when the results from this match were combined
with the match taking place in Derby, where the other half of the league were
competing. This means Birmingham and Warwick are now tied for first place, and
it all comes down to the results of BUTTS champs which takes place at
Nottingham Trent on 19th March! If Birmingham win the league, this
will be the first time Birmingham have won since 1995, keep up the good work and bring home the BUTTS
title next month!
Team Captain Sam Rees had this to say: “I'm very proud of
both our experienced and novice teams. Especially how far our experienced team
has come since last year, we look to make our mark in BUTTS league history as
the team that brought the league cup home after 20 years!”
Final Results can be found here:
Photos Courtesy of David Richardson
No comments:
Post a Comment