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bringing the trophy home next year. Three of our senior members also attended on the day, being Janet Calderbank, Debbie Brown, and John Batt. Debbie was succesful in winning the second place ladies recurve medal, and although Janet and John didn’t make it to the medal positions they both enjoyed the well organised shoot.

Day two of the weekends shoot was the team event. Nethermoss entered teams in the Compound, Longbow, and Recurve categories, each team consisting of four members. Unfortunately the compound team consisting of Michelle & Paul Blundell, Melanie hoe, and Kirsty Robb, did

not win a podium position, but Mel was rewarded with a medal for achieving the second highest lady Compound score of the day. It was the same for the Longbow team of Tracey & Ian Scott, Pat Moss, and Barry Hignet. Although they never got placed, Queen of the Longbows Tracey Scott was called to the awards table to collect the medal for the highest scoring Lady Longbow archer of the day.

Tony Hoe, Dave Ball, Nigel Kerr, and Jack Grogan made up the recurve team. They all shot within a few points of each other, and received medals for being placed in second position.

It was quite a large presentation which was narrated by a local radio presenter who gave a brief description as to each nominee’s

reason as to why they were shortlisted for the awards. The junior Sports Personality was the first to be presented, and five junior sports

personality’s had their names read out. The winner was then called down to be presented with the trophy. Unfortunately it wasn’t Jack who had won; but he was not too disappointed though, as he was honoured to be nominated for the award in the first place, and the icing on the cake was that he was presented with a personalised runner up Trophy.

At the end of the presentation Jack had the pleasure of meeting Joe Thomas the sports reporter who put Jack on the ‘Advertisers’ sports pages, which led to Jack being shortlisted for the award.

Ken’s love of Archery started when he lived in Shropshire, and along with his wife Joan, became long serving members of Shrewsbury Archery Club. Moving back up to their home area of Merseyside, they both joined Nethermoss Archers, Ken also joined High Elm Archers, and continued to be a member of both clubs until his demise. His technical knowledge was second to none, it was a knowledge he freely and enthusiastically shared with anyone. Over his last few months, Ken moved over to shooting compound which he soon mastered to become Nethermoss Club Champion 2011. He was looking forward to entering many of the indoor

competitions over the 2011 – 2012 season with his newly bought compound bow, but sadly he shot his last arrows before he had a chance to compete at the tournaments.