Shooters hit form

JERSEY’S fullbore rifle shooters enter today’s big team test at Bisley, the Kolapore, in great heart after a superb victory in the Overseas match.

Despite high temperatures adding to the tricking conditions the Jersey team performed fantastically to lift the Overseas with a score of 1,185 and 105 V bulls, with Guernsey finishing second, just one V bull ahead of Canada on 1176 points. Kenya were fourth.

Jersey’s wind coach Alex Langley said: ‘I’m absolutely gob-smacked. I didn’t expect us to win with a score like that.’ However, in the strong fishtailing wind, 1,185 proved to be a very good score indeed. Langley and the other wind coaches, Colin Mallett and Mick Cotillard, certainly had their work cut out, but were richly rewarded. Andrew Le Cheminant top scored with 102 out of 105.

Le Cheminant (pictured) was a proud man yesterday and rightly so. In the individual shoot in the day, he scored one of the few 75s to snatch a top ten British Open Grand Aggregate finish – one of only a few Jersey shooters ever to achieve that. Guernseyman Nick Mace, a long-time leader, eventually placed second, just a few V Bulls behind GB International Nigel Ball.

Article posted on 25th July, 2008 - 3.00pm

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