Newsletter “KEEPING TABS””

HINXWORTH ARCHERY CLUB

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ISSUE 9

WINTER 2017/2018

Christmas Party 2017

Thirty archers, partners and family members enjoyed an evening at the George IV restaurant in Baldock on 4 December.

Hertfordshire Archery Association Championships

Over the winter season 10 Hinxworth archers shot at the County and Open Team Championships on 19 November 2017 and 12 Hinxworth archers attended the County and Open Indoor Championships on 11 February 2018. Both competitions took place at Gosling Sports Hall, Welwyn Garden City with excellent results as follows:

November: shooting a UK Record Status WA25 both our compound and longbow teams took first place.

February: shooting a Portsmouth round our compound and longbow teams again took first place. Neil was compound champion, Dave C. was longbow champion and Evie was junior recurve ladies’ champion.

Well done, and thank you, to all Hinxworth archers who shot at the Championship events and maintained the Club’s high profile within the county.

Hinxworth archers ‘have-a-go’ at field archery

Carole and Kath responded to an invitation by Avalon Archers in Sandy to try field archery. Despite the cold temperatures on Sunday 11 February, they enjoyed the challenge of shooting in the woods. As shooting distances constantly vary our ladies considered themselves lucky to have managed to hit a target once or twice.  A warning was given not to become too attached to your arrows in field archery and quite some time was spent looking for arrows up trees, or in the undergrowth, with a couple completely lost or broken. Undeterred both have already decided to have another go at the next Avalon open day in April.

Hinxworth’s Winter League News (at end January)

Frostbite (Outdoor) Portsmouth (Indoor) Pts. Pld. Score Pts. Pld.

ScoreHAC Compound 1st place 6 3 2147 HAC Compound 1st place 6 3 3531HAC Recurve 2nd place 6 3 4619 HAC Recurve 7th place 0 3 8037HAC Longbow 2nd place 4 3 1970 HAC Longbow 1st place 6 3 3977

Beginner’s Course Spring 2018

The 2018 Beginner’s Course is scheduled to start in early April and entries have already started to come in with three places already booked. There are another 12 places to fill, so if anyone has family or friends who are keen to take up archery now is the time for them to apply.

Application forms for the course are available from David O. mailto:hinxworth@yahoo.co.uk or phone 01462 742048.

Hinxworth Archery Club Annual General Meeting

Please note the AGM will take place on Tuesday 20 March at 8pm in the Village Hall. Please would all members try to attend, as your input will be appreciated in relation to the direction of the club for the coming year. Tea, coffee and cake will be served after the meeting.