Category: Inter-Club Tournament

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Targetcraft Archers vs Towcester Archers Inter-Club Challenge

On Friday 19th January a team of nine members travelled up to Rothwell near Desborough, to take part in the first inter-club with Targetcraft Archers.

Targetcraft have invited a number of clubs within the county to a series of friendly inter-club shoots over the winter, and we were the first. The other clubs being Wellingborough Open Archery Club, Archers of Raunds and Long Buckby Archery Club.

The round was a Portsmouth, which is 60 arrows shot in ends of 3 on a 60cm target face with 10 zone scoring, the maximum possible scoring being 600 points.

It was a great evening with some great scores achieved by members of both clubs, including several new personal bests for Towcester Archers. The overall results were extremely close, with Targetcraft taking the win by just 6 points, 4600 to 4594!

Many thanks to Targetcraft for inviting us along and putting on an enjoyable evening. We look forward to hosting the return match next winter!

 




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Towcester Archers vs Banbury Cross Archers, Winter Inter-Club Shoot

On Sunday 5th March we held our very first indoor competition, having invited Banbury Cross Archers to Towcester Centre for Leisure, for another Inter-club competition.

The round on the day was a Portsmouth round, which consists of 5 dozen arrows, shot at 20 yards at a 60cm face face.

As a club we did ourselves proud once again with another great club effort, with everyone mucking in to help and some great score, including several personal bests and for some members this was their very first taste of competition.

The Edgcote Trophy, which is named after the War of the Roses, Battle of Edgcote which took place geographically between Banbury and Towcester in 1469. Northamptonshire has the Rose as its emblem because of the counties role in the War of the Roses. Archers were heavily involved in the battle… ‘An initial attack by the rebel archers forced Pembroke to abandon a strong hilltop position and engage in hand to hand fighting on the valley floor.’ Thankfully, it didn’t come to that on this occasion.

Despite winning the senior recurve and compound categories, we very narrowly missed out on winning the Trophy by just 50 points!.

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Towcester Archers v Banbury Cross Archers

On Sunday 28th August we hosted our first competition of sorts, when Banbury Cross Archers visited for the return leg of our inter-club competition.

There was a great turn out from both clubs, and the bank holiday weather gave us perfect conditions. We shot National rounds which involves shooting four dozen at a first distance and then two dozen at a distance 10 yards closer. There were plenty of great scores achieved including several new club records, and so far we know of at least one new Northamptonshire county record score. We managed to win the overall competition between the club this time round also!

The day was a really great club effort, and shows that we’re more than capable of putting on such events in the future.

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Banbury Cross Archers v Towcester Archers Inter-Club Tournament

On Sunday 20th February, we had our very first inter-club shoot with Banbury Cross Archers at their indoor venue of Warriner School in Bloxham.

There was enough space for 18 members to take part from each club, and we managed to take a full quota. For several of our members this was their first competition outside of the club, and for the more experienced archers, the first indoor competition for a long time.

Some great scores were achieved including some personal bests and club records, with several members coming away with medals.

A big thank you to everyone at Banbury Cross Archers for putting on a great shoot and making us feel so welcome.

We’re really looking forward to hosting the return leg in the summer.

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