Hi Everyone

Have you yet chilled after that sweltering morning up on the Downs and in the woods at Mile Oak? Hot or what?! My own core temperature is finally getting back to where it should be after one ice lolly, half a tub of ice cream and a pint or so of fridge-fresh orange juice.

Ahead of the starting whistle being blown, more SIHFT competitors were ‘thrown’ at the chrono, after 3 random pegs were selected. Pleased to say that all 7 (2 each on 2 pegs + a trio) survived the checks

Some interesting new target placements put out by the Oakies, including use of the ‘lower’ field; which was no surprise when you looked at the 3 foot tall weeds in the upper meadow.

Some challenging ‘wafty’ breezes to catch out the unaware or unlucky, but as it’s far from uncommon to have to aim off the plate out in the Oaks’ field; definitely not as tricky as it can be.

Anyway, here is the full set of results …..

Name Club Class Score % Badge T(eam)
Kevin Catt Meon Valley O 57 100.0 G T
Charles Peal Oaks O 57 100.0 G T
Mike Burgess Swallows O 56 98.2 G T
Jill Cochrane Maldon O 55 96.5 G T
Aaron Friend Oaks O 55 96.5 G T
Kevin Hills Buxted O 55 96.5 G T
Howard Kalisch Buxted O 55 96.5 G T
Justin Roberts Ford O 55 96.5 G T
Phil Moody Horsham O 54 94.7 G T
Justin Rayner Buxted O 54 94.7 G T
Andy Simpson Buxted O 54 94.7 G T
Roger Dibbens Buxted O 53 93.0 G T
Vince Guy Swallows O 53 93.0 G T
Derek Watson Horsham O 53 93.0 G T
Kevin Wickson Buxted O 53 93.0 G
Lewis Hodges Oaks O 52 91.2 S T
Chris Mears Oaks O 52 91.2 S T
Lol Moore Ford O 52 91.2 S T
Jon Newton-May Buxted O 52 91.2 S
Nick Orr Oaks O 52 91.2 S T
Mike Seagrave Meon Valley O 52 91.2 S T
Graeme Cargan (O) Oaks O 51 89.5 S
Wes Micklethwaite Oaks J 51 89.5 G
Richard Simpson Buxted O 51 89.5 S
Spencer Bailey Buxted O 50 87.7 S
Nigel Buchan Buxted O 50 87.7 S
Nick Byrne Oaks O 50 87.7 S
Jean Greatrex Maldon L 50 87.7 G T
Ewan Hobbs Iden Fern O 50 87.7 S T
Steb Martinez (O) Ford O 50 87.7 S T
Bob Pattenden Oaks R 50 87.7 G
Paul Bradford Buxted O 49 86.0 S
Richard Chase (O) Ford O 49 86.0 S T
Finn Cochrane Maldon O 49 86.0 S T
Darren Purnell Buxted O 49 86.0 S
Mark Rackley Meon Valley O 49 86.0 S T
Mick White Meon Valley O 49 86.0 S T
Trevor Palmer Buxted R 48 84.2 G
Gary Chillingworth Maldon R 47 82.5 S T
Pat Fitzgerald Ford R 47 82.5 S T
Maciek Pajek Horsham O 47 82.5 B T
Daniel Smith Visitor O 47 82.5 B
Paul Charman Swallows O 46 80.7 B T
Jade Saunders Oaks L 46 80.7 S
Anthony Smith Horsham O 46 80.7 B T
Steve Micklethwaite Oaks O 45 78.9 B
Mary Rackley Visitor L 45 78.9 S
Sarah Vickers Meon Valley L 44 77.2 S T
Harvey Friend Oaks J 43 75.4 S
Roy Pearce Iden Fern O 43 75.4 B T
Stewart Elstone Buxted O 41 71.9
Gabriel Hobbs Iden Fern P 41 71.9 S T
Barbara Pearce Iden Fern L 41 71.9 B T
Daniel Hudson Meon Valley O 38 66.7
Patrick Hills Visitor O 36 63.2
Trevor Hudson Meon Valley O 34 59.6
Mario Aquilina Meon Valley O 32 56.1
Tom Pattenden Visitor O 30 52.6
Don Vickers Meon Valley .22 DNF

Please let me know a.s.a.p. if you spot anything you think is amiss. BBS PM or email or Facebook message all welcome.

Prize drawer winners today were, after quite a lot of ‘no-shows’ as score cards were pulled from the sack :
• Roy Pearce – the £30 cash prize, and
• Richard Chase – today’s Air Arms goody bag (which, along with Ford achieving 3rd place in the team results, made his day)

With Buxted widening the gap between them and Mile Oak by one more point at the top of the table, team scores today and points are:

Club Round 5 Cumulative Points
Buxted 271 70
Oaks 268 68
Ford 253 48
Horsham 252 49
Maldon 252 43
Meon Valley 251 55
Swallows 245 42
Iden Fern 229 36

Horsham, Iden Fern, MAD and Swallows all required lucky-dip cards. The first 3 needing just 1 card and Swallows 2.

As well as the UKAHFT double-header at Maldon, next weekend sees Horsham hopst another round of their Summer Open. SIHFT returns to Swallows FTC on August 5th for Round 7.

Biggles

PS …… as we've now reached the point in the SIHFT year when you could have accumulated 6 scoring rounds (the minimum needed for the end-of-year tally), and after which you start to drop your lowest scores, do you want me to start publishing the league tables??