Halkirk teams round off rifle league season with double success
Halkirk completed a double in Caithness Small Bore Rifle Association’s postal winter league with the village club’s “A” and “B” teams finishing top in the first and second divisions respectively.
After the league’s 15th and final round, the other winners were Dallas (Division Three), Keiss (Division Four) and Westfield “B” (Division Five).
Division One: (points dropped ex 400) Wick Old Stagers “A” 5, Bogey 10. Scores (ex 100) – Wick OS “A”: H Simpson 100, D Simpson 99, A W Paul 98, S Nicolson 98.
Halkirk “A” 5, Watten “A” 7. Scores – Halkirk: J Campbell 100, R Campbell 99, W Campbell 99, J Fraser 97. Watten: J Henderson 99, D Bremner 99, D Wilson 98, S Henderson 97.
Huntly “A” 10, Pentland “A” 16. Pentland scores: G Begg 97, P Richard 97, R Brown 95, D Mowat 95.
H Simpson (Wick OS “A”) and J Campbell (Halkirk “A”) both returned possibles.
Division Two: Stirkoke “A” 15, Wick OS “B” 9. Scores – Stirkoke: G Cameron 97, G Robertson 96, J M Sutherland 96, D G Henderson 96. Wick: A Tait 100, G Sutherland 98, I Simpson 97, SS Nicolson 96.
Orkney 400, Westfield “A” 20. Westfield scores: M Mackenzie 98, G A Mackay 97, M Mackay 94, M Sutherland 91.
Halkirk “B” 7, Watten “B” 17. Scores – Halkirk: R Levack 100, G Levack 100, S Yuille 97, T Hawes 96. Watten: N Brims 99, G Bremner 97, D Thompson 94, B Mackay 93.
R Levack and G Levack (Halkirk “B”) both returned a top score of 100.
Division Three: Dallas 10, Pentland “B” 24. Scores – Pentland: W D Mowat 97, J Coghill 95, P Gates 93, WD Steven 91.
Lairg 18, Dingwall 25. Huntly “B” 12, Stirkoke “B” 122. Stirkoke scores: R Innes 98, G Henderson 96, A Webster 84.
K Sutherland (Dallas), B Macintosh, R H Meiklejohn (Dingwall) and S Sharp (Huntly “B”) were the round’s top scorers with 99.
Division Four: Keiss 26, Clach 23. Scores – Keiss: W Mackay 97, B Cormack 97, A Johnston 90, J Dunnett 90.
Watten “C” 25, Stirkoke “C” 138. Scores – Watten: L Thain 96, K Macaulay 95, D Thomson Jnr 94, M Macaulay 90. Stirkoke: J Cameron 92, D Henderson 86, B Sutherland 84.
Wick OS “C” 34, Halkirk “C” 308. Scores – Wick: N Hodgson 93, A Harper 92, L Harper 91, C Ronaldson 90. Halkirk: J Bremner 92.
Best score of the round was a 99 by G Smith (Clach).
Division Five: Pentland “C” 400, Watten “D” 400.
Huntly “C” 43, Westfield “B” 31. Westfield scores: J Manson 96, S Mackay 93, A Mackay 91, G Williams 89.
Stirkoke “D” 400, Nairn 53.
J Manson (Westfield “B”) returned the division’s best score 96.
The St Clair Cup was Caithness Small Bore Rifle Association’s last team competition of the winter season. The competition, shot at 15 yards, requires each of the four final team members to return one card and the team with the best aggregate score (ex 400) receives the silverware.
This year’s winners were Watten, with Pentland a close second.
The Daisy Trust Indoor Championship is confined to juniors who are members of a Caithness rifle club. Competitors must be under age 18 at the date of competition and the winner receives the Daisy 2000 Cup, to be retained for one year.
This year’s winner of the Daisy final was Grace Campbell (Halkirk).
The top nine seniors, based on their best 13 returns from the scheduled 15 in divisions one to five, competed in a shoulder-to-shoulder competition on the Westfield range for the Shearer Cup.
Finalists were required to compete in a three-way match, returning two cards in each, to gain five points for a win, three points for second place and one point for third.
Each shooter, in order to compete against all other finalists, had to participate in four matches and, in doing so, return eight cards. This year’s county champion was Jared Fraser (Halkirk).
The qualifying juniors, based on their best returns in the junior division, also meet on the Westfield range to compete for the A&D Trophy. The junior championship is a round-robin with two points for a win, one point for a draw and zero for a loss.
Grace Campbell (Halkirk) is this year’s junior county champion.
