Inexperienced young trio dominate single-rise shoot

Press, 8 October 1979, Page 30

Inexperienced young trio dominate single-rise shoot

Many seasoned trap shoot-1 ing marksmen were forced to I take a back seat to an in-j experienced trio when the| single rise event at the Can-; terbury championships was] decided at the Yaldhurst| range yesterday. A big field of 140. includ-i ing shooters from Auckland| to Invercargill and one from the Chatham Islands, con-) tested the final event of the: championships. Fifleen[ shooters broke the 25 targets off 18ni and went into a shoot-off. The numbers were gradu-j ally whittled down with several of the favoured competi-l tors falling by the wayside, until three young and relatively inexperienced shooters 1 remained on the stations. Paul Kelly (Christchurch)! was the first to lapse in con- 1

■| cent ration, but it needed several more birds before (Tony Fisher (Waihora) failed [on his seventy-fifth target. | The victor was a ,27-year-jold Ellesmere shooter. ’Adrian Mayberry, and his ■win was well received. It .! was the first provincial title for Mayberry, whose back-[ I ground in the sport goes) (back only four years, He is .now looking forward to the) [national titles on the range next March with renewed! ’ confidence. The other titles decided (yesterday were the I.S.U. ball [trap, which was won by] I Russell McGowan (Mataura)) I— he had earlier been third! in the double-rise champion-! [ship— and the single barrel.: (which went to a highly de-| [lighted Balclutha visitor,) Duncan McGregor.

1( The coveted high gun title Nwas won by the experienced 1; John Thomson, of Waitemata. He failed to win an ■ individual title, but was most , consistent over the five - events counting towards the t title and missed only two : birds. Thomson has won -(eight national titles over a , j long period and twice has s[been the high gun at the •(New Zealand championships. ’) Murray Cook (Ashburton) 1 1 dropped five targets to finish ! second ahead of Trevor Ever--1 ;ett, jun. Rangiora’s lan Burt Hwon the junior high gun. ) Results: | ! I.S.U. skeet. —G. Webber iWaij teniatai 1. J. Bennett ( Morri nsjville) 2, D. Heaps iSouthlandi 3. . I Standard skeet —W. Brunton il’imarui I, C. W. Stott (Christ- ’ I church i 2. J. R. Thomson (Rotoiruai 3.

el Clay sparrow.—Ray Everett u | (Christchurchi 1. J. Tindale w (Greymouth) 2, B. McDonald !v {iWaitematai 3. n: Double rise.—J. Dillon (Christf church) LG. Halligan (Southland) J2, R. E. McGowan (Mataura) 3. I.S.U. ball trap.—McGowan 1. P’A. Brown (Lauder) 2. G. ViskoD’vich (Waitemata) 3. Single barrel.—D. McGregor 4 | (Balclutha) 1. Ray Everett (Christ- ® church) 2. Thomson 3. s Single rise. —A. Mayberry I e; iEllesmere) 1, T. Fisher (Waihora) i . 12. P. Kelly (Christchurch) 3. '•I High gun.—Thomson 1, M. Cook ) (Ashburton) 2. .Trevor Everett. 1 jun. (Christchurch) 3. Junior high gun.—l. Burt (Rangiora) 1. i C.A.C. high gun.—B. McDonald (Waitemata) 1. * Shand Trophy.—North Canterbury 925, 1; South Canterbury. 1/870. 2. ;■ Team shots. —Five-man skeet; I. Amberley (1. Boyce. K. Beardsi|ley, D. Brosnan, D. Will, F. Morrisj 1. Timaru 2. Two-man: T. i-i Everett, jun. and Rex Everett 1; Ray Everett and C. Stott 2. i