Recent Portsmouth & District Team Results

In the lull between the winter leagues having finished and the summer leagues just getting started, there hasn't been much news recently but here's a bit of old news that I didn't get round to posting.

The 2015 Potter Bailey

Portsmouth & District vs Worthing & West Sussex

In a previous post, I provided a match report on the first round of the Potter Bailey: which is an annual competition that runs between Portsmouth & District and Worthing & West Sussex rifle associations (both making up a team from their member clubs).  The first round in February saw P&D narrowly lose to W&WS (1945 points to 1953 points).

Here's how the second round went in mid-March.

Portsmouth & District - 1944 A. Nevatte (99, 99) I. Cooper (97, 99) S. Dismore (97, 98) T. Gleed (96, 96) G. Barber (97, 98) J. Barber (98, 96) M. Frost (96, 95) P. Pearce (100, 97) A. Perry (96, 98) D. Cotton (91, 100) C. Richards (97, 95) A. Morley (94, 97)

Worthing & West Sussex - 1947  (Capt.) R. French (99, 99) J. Holdsworth (98, 95) H. Matheson (96, 96) T. Payne (97, 97) G. Ramsey (97, 95) G. Smith (94, 98) N. Smith (98, 98) T. Wells (96, 99) J. Whittle (97, 98) P. Terry (98, 97) L. Vines (95, 98) K. Tulloch (98, 98)

So while Peter Pearce (Sarisbury) and Dave Cotton (Havant) managed to achieve possibles, unfortunately P&D wasn't able to make up the difference that Worthing & West Sussex made in the first round.

The 2015 Woolgar Cup

Portsmouth & District vs Southampton & District

This is another competition that runs every year between the Portsmouth and Southampton teams.  This year it was very kindly hosted at Havant.  Again, it is teams of 12 (10 to count) with each person shooting two cards.  Here's how it went:

Portsmouth & District - 1917 A. Nevatte (95, 97) I. Cooper (95, 98) A. Perry (93, 93) G. Scruton (97, 96) D. Cleave (97, 95) C. Richards (95, 98) D. Shepperd (94, 94) T. Read (94, 95) D. Beere-Waldram (95, 98) K. Hardyman (96, 97) (Capt.) M. Nevatte (94, 96) C. Coles (95, 94)

Southampton & District - 1947 M. Girling (98, 100) J. Barber (96, 95) D. Lumsden (95, 96) A. Whittall (100, 98) G. Barber (95, 97) (Capt.) J. Exall (98, 97) P. Wooldridge (97, 94) T. Gleed (97, 100) M. Holdway (97, 95) M. Frost (96, 94) P. Pearce (98, 98) M. Guille (98, 99)

Well done to Southampton's shooters for some very impressive scores.  Portsmouth shooters will definitely have to pull their socks up for next year!

One other important piece of news that was announced was that our own Marian Nevatte would be stepping down as captain of the Portsmouth & District team.  Having taken on new responsibilities in the wake of Mary Maiden's passing, Marian has decided to hand over this particular role to someone else (who will be confirmed at the next P&D AGM).  All shooters gave a great round of applause in thanks for Marian's 8 years of work as the captain of the association team.

Many thanks, Marian!

Worthing & West Sussex narrowly edge ahead of Portsmouth & District

On Saturday evening, the first leg of the Potter Bailey shoot was held at Chichester Rifle Club.  The competition sees the combined talents of the shooters of Portsmouth & District lock horns with our neighbour's, the Worthing & West Sussex Smallbore Rifle Association.  Each district team has 12 shooters and the best 10 scores are counted (known as '12 to shoot, 10 to count').  Each shooter has two cards so (doing the maths here... 12 shooters x 2 cards x 2 teams + 1 reserve) there were 50 cards shot.

This was the away match for the P&D shooters and the bitter cold of the Chichester range added an extra challenge!  Portsmouth City's own Marian Nevatte captained the P&D side while Ian Cooper, Adam Nevatte and Gordon Scruton were selected for the P&D team.

The best possible team score is 2000 and the competition is based on aggregate so these scores will be added to the home match which will be shot at Havant Rifle Club on March 14th.  Here's how the teams did:

Worthing & West Sussex - 1953 C. Flaxbeard (94, 95) (Capt.) R. French (98, 100) J. Holdsworth (97, 100) H. Matheson (99, 97) N. Mullins (99, 97) T. Payne (98, 93) G. Ramsey (99, 97) C. Smith (98, 96) G. Smith (96, 100) N. Smith (99, 94) T. Wells (98, 96) J. Whittle (95, 98)

Portsmouth & District - 1945 A. Nevatte (97, 97) G. Scruton (98, 96) I. Cooper (97, 98) S. Dismore (99, 95) T. Gleed (96, 99) F. Horn (99, 99) G. Barber (95, 96) J. Barber (95, 98) M. Frost (97, 96) P. Pearce (99, 98) A. Perry (95, 95) D. Cotton (95, 97) Reserve (Capt.) M. Nevatte (95, 95)

So an 8 point difference over 2000 possible points is really quite close and eminently recoverable.  Well done to W&WSx for pressing their home advantage.  We're all hoping the Havant range will be warmer next month!