Archery tournament hits the spot

MEMBERS of Crystal Arrows Archery Club competed in “The Denes 720", the first outdoor archery tournament organised by the club based at Denes Community Sports Centre, Lowestoft. This was to be the first time both the junior and senior sections of the club had shot together in open competition and conditions could not have been better for the 22 members. For most, this was their first outdoor competition and despite a few nervous faces at the start, everyone relaxed and settled into the task. Competitors shot a total of 72 arrows at an 80cm diameter target which was set at three different distances. There was a maximum of 720 points on offer. In the junior gents section, Nathan Beane and Matt Artis fought throughout the day with Nathan edging out his rival by nine points.Jay Eriera pulled out a commanding lead at the longer distance and managed to hold on to this despite a late charge by second place Chris Nash.Ladies; winner Tina Crisp was chased hard all day by Caroline Graver.

Archery hunt to decrease deer population scheduled for August through

The 75th Civil Engineer Group Environmental Management Division will be issuing permits for archery deer hunts between August and December to help control the bases growing deer population.

Twenty people will be selected at random to hunt in the area on the eastern edge of the base extending south from the North Gate to Hubbard Memorial Golf Course.

Interested hunters should fill out an archery deer hunt application online at www.hafbdeerhunt.com by July 31, 5:30 p.m.

Potential hunters must have a 2007 Utah Archery Hunt tag and a Wasatch Front Extended Archery Ethics Course certificate of completion before registering. The ethics course certificate is available at the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources Web site, www.wildlife.utah.gov. Participants in the base hunt are subject to all laws set forth by the Big Game Proclamation published by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.

Myanmar to hold Olympic Day Run 2007 Archery Competition

Myanmar Olympic Day Run 2007 Archery Competition will be held here next week aimed at getting more medals in the 24th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games and emerging new generation archers in the country, according to the Myanmar Archery Federation (MAF) on Saturday.

Local archers will compete in men's and women's compound and recurve events in the Olympic Day Run 2007 Archery Competition scheduled on June 29 at the Kyaikkasan Archery Ground, the MAF said.

Meanwhile, the Myanmar archery team, comprising 19 archers -- six men and four women for recurve and five men and four women for compound, trained by South Korean coach Jin Su Ho since March 27, has been making preparation since last November to compete in the 24th SEA Games, the MAF said.

Of the 19 Myanmar selected archers, seven competed in the 23rd SEA Games, of which one archer got gold medal in the recurve event, it said.

Jr. US archery Olympians aim for the Heartland

CARBONDALE, Ill. - A few of the best archers in the country have gathered in Carbondale, and most of them haven't even turned 18-years-old yet.

"They're just normal kids, junior high, high school kids. But when they step out on the archery field, they're all elite athletes," said 2004 Archery Olympian and coach, John Magera.

Junior Archery Olympic Dream Team member Jory Schroeder came all the way from Victoria, Texas to compete. She has her sights set on the Olympics.

"That's what I'm aiming for right now. I just can't imagine it! I hope I get to be there one day," said Schroeder.

Adam Wruck and Corey Muellenbach of Minnesota have already brought home the gold after competing in the junior world games last year in Mexico.

"It was pretty cool being able to represent the U.S.A.

Straight arrows: Archery program aims to help students in school ...

-- Mark Koley is a lifelong lover of archery. When he was a kid and he and his friends played "Cowboys and Indians," he always wanted to be the Indian because he preferred the bow and arrow.

The math teacher at Clovis Point Intermediate School in East Wenatchee has never forgotten how much he enjoyed archery as a kid and wondered for years how he could share that with students in a way that it could benefit them in school and in life.

Two years ago, he found the answer: The National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP).

"It was something I'd read about in articles and sounded really interesting, and as a teacher, it was something to get kids interested in school in a different way," he said.

"It at least gives kids an opportunity to do something different and in their own lives take it wherever they want to go with it."

Not only was it an excuse to try, but the program's established reputation and proven curriculum made it an easy sale to Clovis principal Dennis Gibson, who jumped onboard immediately.

Abhishek rewrites record

After overcoming visa problems on the eve of the team's departure, the Indian junior archery contingent reaped rich rewards at the second Asian championship at Chinese Taipei. Delhi lad Abhishek Verma was the toast of the Indian camp. He created a new record in the compound bow qualification round by scoring 669 out of possible 720 points at the Taiwan Archery Range on Saturday. Verma shot 335 and 334 in two 70m distance qualifiers to occupy the first place. Twelve countries — Korea, Japan, Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Indonesia and the host Chinese Taipei — are in the fray. The ranking and scores (Indians only): Recurve boys: 2. A. Raju 650 points (320+330), 4. Rajib Basumatary 634 (324+310), 7. Prabhat Kandir 632 (313+319). Girls: 1.

Bowman Ben aims for top as search for stars goes on

WITH the Olympic Games coming to London in 2012, the search is on to discover home-grown talent which might bring medal glory.

One Windsor teenager is now aiming to make his dream of becoming an international sportsman come true in time for nation's biggest sporting occasion since 1948.

And as in recent Games, it may well be lesser known sports, like archery, that throws up surprises heroes.

Ben Huse, from Hayse Hill, Windsor,is already making a name for himself in that sporting world, having just won the British U15 Field Archery title in Cardiff.

A member of Crowthorne Archers, 14-year-old Ben does both target and field archery, but this year has concentrated more on the latter to improve his all-round ability and discipline.

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Rajib, Namita triumph

KOLKATA: Rajib Basumatary and Namita Yadav of India won the individual titles in the boys' recurve and girls' compound sections respectively in the second Asian archery championship at the Taiwan Archery Range in Chinese Taipei on Monday.

Rajib downed Wei Che Chen of Chinese Taipei 104-101 in the final. Another Indian, Prabhat Kandir, who lost to Rajib in the semifinals, took the bronze getting the better of Cheng Weng of Chinese Taipei 109-106.

The junior National champion, Namita, defeated Delle Threes of Indonesia 111-108 in the final. M. Rishtha went down to Klam Yan Koon of Hong Kong 99-102 in the bronze medal match.

India has won three golds, one silver and two bronze medals so far. — Special Correspondent

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Local archer prepares for Olympic trials

By JAMIE BROOKS/OBSERVER STAFF REPORTER

For some athletes, the peak of their career lies in the distant hopes of professional leagues, or even collegiate playing time, but Kendra Harvey won't settle until she battles to be the best.

Harvey, 19, is trying out for a spot on the 2008 Summer Olympic American Archery team for her shot at the gold in Beijing, China. She was the alternate for the team three years ago, and since then has been gradually preparing herself for the spot on the team next summer.

"I've progressively been building up since my year of sleep," Harvey joked, referring to taking a break from archery after the Olympic Games in 2006. Her laugh echoed through her home, and it was hard not to laugh along. Behind her were pictures, medals and other memorabilia of her success.

Abhishek Verma clinches gold

India's Abhishek Verma emerged the compound bow individual champion in the boys' section of the second Asian junior archery championship at Chinese Taipei on Sunday. The Indian archery contingent in all won a gold medal, silver and a bronze in the individual championship. According to information received here, Delhi's Verma defeated Chan Pi Yak of Hong Kong by 109 points to104 in the final to take the gold medal at the Taiwan Archery Range. Another Indian Sumit Mishra won the bronze medal in compound section beating his teammate Sonam Pintso Lepcha by 107 to 105 points. V. Pranitha took the silver medal in the girls' recurve bow section. In the final she lost to Ying Chin Chen of Chinese Taipei by 100 to 105 points. The other Indian archer, Nisha Rani Dutta, who emerged on top in the two 70m qualifying rounds, was beaten by Pranitha in the semifinals, the scores being 91 to 88 points.

Grizzlies Salute Outdoorsmen Tuesday

On Tuesday, June 26th, the Gateway Grizzlies will hold a Salute to Outdoorsmen during their game against the River City Rascals.

Prior to the game, the Southern Illinois Buckmasters and Illinois Department of Natural Resources will have an area set up outside of GCS Ballpark for kids to participate in archery shooting. Bows will be provided by the Buckmasters. The archery event runs from 5:00 until 6:45.

A canned food drive will also take place during the event. For each canned food item donated, a raffle ticket will be handed out. Prizes consist of two (2) Matthews Genesis bows, as well as several Zebco rods and reels. All canned food will be donated to a local food pantry.

Along with the canned food raffle, there will also be a dollar bow raffle for a fully set up compound hunting bow.

Junior state archery

IMPHAL, Jun 10: Sports Authority of India Regional centre claimed the overall team championship in the 18th senior, 22nd sub junior and junior state archery championships 2007 organised by Manipur Archery Association which concluded at Palace compound today. Individual olympic round FITA round men 1st Kh Nikon of YAC, 2nd Ph Dayananda of AAC and 3rd place L Romio also AAC. Individual olympic round FITA recurve men 1st L Rajesh of SAI, T Michael of ARAC and 3rd Kh Johny of Public club. The individual olympic round FITA recurve women 1st position SP Lydia of SAI, 2nd B Lucy of ANG and 3rd place N Genevie of SAI. The Indian round senior men team event 1st position N Santosh, O Telheiba, M Sanjoy and Sclung Makhik of Public club, 2nd position M Somi, H Biswanath, Bimal Tete and Th Sanayaima of ARAC and 3rd place Th Sanatomba, S Basanta, M Basanta and Th Aboy.

Archery club's teacher's arrow injures student

A 15-year-old Tokyo high school student was seriously injured in the head by an arrow that a teacher shot during club activities at the school, police said.

The student was injured on the left side of his head, but the injury is not life-threatening, the police said.

According to police, at about 1:30 p.m. Saturday, the 51-year-old female teacher at Igusa High School in Nerima Ward, Tokyo, who is the assistant adviser of the Japanese archery club, fired a steel-tipped arrow at a target 28 meters away, but overshot the mark, hitting the student, who was walking five meters behind the target. The student is not a member of the archery club.

The teacher, who is ranked at the lowest grade in Japanese archery, was giving a demonstration at the time.

Sports Star of the Week: Rowan Griffith, archery.

AUSTRALASIAN junior boys' bow hunting champion Rowan Griffith has until October to decide if he will represent Australia at the world titles next year.

He's been invited to shoot for the national side next August. The problem is that the championship will be in the African country of Namibia and it is going to cost him more than $5000 to make the trip.

"I'll get around $1000 funding from the Australian Federation, but I'd have to make up the rest myself," the 16-year-old Year 11 Taree High student said.

He wants to go.

"It'd be interesting," he said.

But he says his parents have some reservations. The fact that he'll be off to Africa leading into the start of the HSC is another concern.

Rowan said he'll have to negotiate with his parents in the next couple of weeks before a final decision is made.

Some of the hunters who are going big game hunting this Fall

While idly browsing through the names of hunters at www.huntnevada.com, who were successful in drawing 2007 Nevada big game tags, I thought it might be interesting to randomly select some of the successful tag holders from this general area, just like I did last year.

It's public information, so what the heck, let's see who (A-Z) is going hunting this year.

If your name is listed, it's the result of my selection process.

If your name is not listed, it is also the result of my selection.

A: Bret T. Andreas, Carson City: Mule deer antlered, hunt type 1131, area 111-L; and Calif. bighorn sheep, 8151, area 012.

B: Elmer W. Bull, Yerington: Mule deer antlered, 1131, area 221-E; and Antlerless elk, 4181, area 114.

C: Thomas A.

India wins compound team gold medal

KOLKATA: The Indian boys' compound bow team added one more gold on the final day to the three individual gold medals won earlier in the five-day, second Asian junior archery championship at the Taiwan Archery Range on Tuesday.

India also annexed two more silver medals in the boys' and girls' recurve bow event to take the final tally to four golds, two silvers and as many bronze medals.

The compound team of Abhishek Verma, Sumit Mishra and Sonam Pintso Lepcha, defeated Hong Kong 211-192 in the final, according to information received here.

The two silvers came when the recurve boys' team, comprising Rajib Basumatary, Prabhat Kandir and A. Raju lost to Chinese Taipei 210-211.

The girls' recurve trio of V. Pranitha, Rosie Lalremliana and Nisha Rani Dutta also lost to Chinese Taipei in the final 203-184.