9/29/09 Plate Match Report

16 guns entered           Match Won by Loren DeShon

 

     1 Junior, Wolfgang Seagraves

 

     9 Young Bucks & Does - Class won by Lee Lewis

 

      2 Seniors - Class won by Mike Blondin

 

      4 Super Seniors - Class won by Hal Hansen

 

       Ladies Class - none entered  *Yes, Ladies.  From now on whenever there are 2 or more Ladies entered, You will have your own class.  You will still be eligible to win your age class, as usual, but will have the added incentive to outshoot your female competitors.

     Hello, and welcome sports fans.  It was a bright, clear & quite cool evening at our GHSC plate match tonight.  Shooters were greeted by a bracing temperature of 56degrees.  Before the evening was over, people had fond memories of our heaters.

Well, it won't be long.  In the interim, many thanks to Mathew Seagraves for setting up a bonfire for the shooters to hover over, providing some much needed warmth to keep our hands and fingers warm and active.

     Thanks also to Mathew and Wolfgang Seagraves for setting up the stage tonight.  Couple the good work setting up our plate match, and setting up and tending our Bonfire, and all the shooters at our match tonight are much appreciative to Mathew & Wolfgang.  While I'm in the thanking business, many thanks to James Austin for taking over the scoretable, scoreboard and calling the match.  Rob & Reba Potter had business elsewhere and couldn't attend our match tonight, and we all owe a debt of gratitude to the set-up crew, the scoretable DJ and to all those who stepped in to run the firing line tonight. Leon Potter stayed pretty busy as one of our Line Marshalls, and we're much appreciative to all who contributed to running our match.

     We had 3 new shooters tonight also.  2 of the three are going to be departing the area soon, one clear back to Germany.  We sure enjoyed having you stop by and attend our match while you were in town, gents.

     We had a light turnout tonight, only 16 shooters put on warm jackets, turned up their collars and came out to enjoy the fresh air.  Somehow, an abbreviated program seemed in order tonight, and we ran only the basic 5 rounds and the finals.  Sudden death just didn't seem to be in the cards, so it got skipped by general consent.  Also, no reload round developed, but the skill and enthusiasm of the 16 shooters present meant fast strings of fire, more than a few misses, and so we had reloads going on all evening.  And on to the finals.

     As we approach the end of the finals, there are but 3 guns left in the running:  Hal Hansen, Lee Lewis and Loren DeShon.  Lee puts paid to this reporters evening in a duel in which Hal probably couldn't have hit the ground if he had dropped the gun.  Still, Hal mounts the "terminated" trailer holding fast to the Super Senior Class ribbon, so all was not lost.  Now it's just Loren & Lee left battling, with Lee having 2 numbers to Lorens 3.  Lee  evens the score a bit with a quick win, then sets up to try and do it again.  The next duel goes to Loren, leaving Lee with just 1 number left.  Lee &Loren get ready, and Leon Potter  calls the action. 

     Shooters, Load and Make Ready!  Shooters Ready?  Stand by!!  At the horn both shooters hammer the plates,

Lee Lewis misses a plate, and Loren DeShon does not!!  Sting, set and match to Loren DeShon.  Lee wins the Young Bucks and Does Class however, so in defeat Lee goes out victorious.  Earlier, Mike Blondin won the Senior class, good shooting Mike.  Wolfgang was the only Junior shooting tonight. but he shot well and is looking for more competition. If anyone knows of any young folks who need practice shooting, tell'em to come on out and play.  Maybe, if they are lucky, Wolfgang will let them move and set up the plate racks.     OK folks, that's it for another week.  We'll see all of you who can make it to the Sunday clays matches, held each Sunday @ 4PM right here at GHSC.  Monday evenings at 5pm, come on out and practice for Tuesdays Plate Matches, as usual held each Tuesday at 6pm, except of course for National Holidays.  

     So, that's the rundown for this week see you all right here next week, and we'll see who the TOP GUNS are then.

 

Hal