MARCH SHOOT & FINALS

Brian Bell and Les Court joined the 400 club. As predicted it was a tight finish to the competition with the ladies being won by Hannah Wilson and the gents by Steve Else. Bronte won the team event with all their team having scored 400+ during the competition. Rachel and Brian Bell won the Jack & Jill. The most improved archer was John Ball and the highest unrewarded score was by Adrian Hayes. Full results on the results page.

FEBRUARY SHOOT

Only one new member to the 100 Club and 400 Club- congratulations to Paul Singleton.

The Oddfellows and Adel were without their Lady archers so this month's team scores won't count in the final reckoning.

The prospects for a tight finish to the Gentlemen's trophy is assured with only 10 points between Steve Else and Lewis Mitchell. In the Ladies trophy we can expect another tight final with three in contention Hannah Wilson, Denise Singleton and Ann Shooter with only 23 points between them.

In the team event, Bronte moves into first position with 4774 followed by AVA (4568) and White Rose (4536).


JANUARY SHOOT

The 100 CLUB welcomed Steve Else and Robert Powell. Denise Singleton recorded the highest score for a lady  of 414 and joined the 400 club. Steve Else and Lewis Mitchell both scored 12 golds and Steve gained the highest score of 481 so far this season.

We are pleased to welcome Phyl and Cedric Abbott from Bowmen of Adel. Lis and David provided scores they shot before leaving for Wales.

Oddfellows gained their first win of the season and Adel dragged themselves from the bottom position. But the league remains too close to call at this stage. The January team winners were Oddfellows followed by Bronte and Aire Valley. Full results on results page.

ADEL OPEN

Airedale Longbow League archers took five of the top ten places at the Bowmen of Adel's indoor shoot on 4th January. Trevor Astley won with 437 despite his first miss of the year. Other results were:



  Robert manages to prise the bronze medal from
  arch-rival David who was Lord Patron.




DECEMBER SHOOT

Whilst the nation was mesmerized by the athletes of the dance floor there was more serious stuff going on in Keighley. Over thirty longbowmen from seven Yorkshire clubs were contending for the monthly honours of the Airedale Longbow League. Watchers of form had been out at the Christmas Cracker the previous weekend to see which teams had the strongest members. Would the inclusion of a ringer -Adrian - in the Oddfellows tip the balance back in their favour with Trevor ("Little Muff") Astley proving himself unassailable? Or would the dark horses from the border country come true? see results...

There were some excellent performances and most improved archer must go to David Whitham who increased his score from 309 to 400! Most improved Lady is Hannah with 80+. Trevor, shooting eracticaly found himself as the first to join the 100 club this season and the 400 club is getting positively crowded.  But if taking part is more important than winning, then it was a great success for all and the sherry and mince pies and the cake were a big additional plus to the success of the afternoon. And who wants to sit watching dancers on the telly?

AIREDALE ARCHER'S SUCCESS
The Longbow archers of Airedale swept the medals at the Christmas Cracker with 1st Trevor Astley, 2nd Steve Else and 3rd Bruce Knights. Denise contented herself with 3rd in the Ladies.

NOVEMBER SHOOT
The 2008/09 season got off to a cracking start with 30 longbow archers taking part. We were pleased to welcome a new team from Bronte which robbed the Oddfellows of their Bronte members. See pictures on photograph page.

With 10 targets available we had to have three line ups, with one archer filling the space on the line as soon as it was vacated we still managed to finish by 5pm including the Sherry and cake break supervised by Mrs Astley.

The highest scoring archers were Steve Else and Lewis Mitchell with 446 scored. The team winners were Aire Valley followed by Bronte and White Rose. Full results on results page.

AIREDALE ARCHER'S SUCCESS
The Longbow archers of Airedale get out and about. David O'Carroll brought back a medal from the Northern Counties Archery Society's indoor championship getting second place on 9th November.

NEW SCHEDULE FOR 2008/09
The matches for the 08/09 season will be held on the THIRD Saturday of the month so as to avoid clashes with the Xmas Cracker and the Bronte floodlight shoot. And talking of Bronte, we are hopeful that there will be a Bronte team this season - so the Oddfellows will be looking for new talent....

Can all Airedale longbowmen please let Robert have their e-mail address so he can send out messages should there be any changes etc.