May 29, 2011 Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club Clays Match Report

20 Guns Entered In Match

 

     5 Ladies - Class won by Mary Stevens with a score of 35

            2nd Lady - Gitti Anable with a score of 34

            3rd Lady - Kathy Robert with a score of 24

 

     2 Juniors - Class won by Mary Stevens with a score of 35

             2nd Junior - Brian Tinner with a score of 26

 

     8 Open Guns - Class won by Jay Schoonmaker with a score of 46

              2nd Open - Thor Palm with a score of 36

              3rd Open - Mary Stevens with a score of 35

 

    12 Limited Guns - Class won by Jim Skedd with a score of 46

      2nd Limited - Todd Anderson with a score of 39

      3rd Limited - Hal Hansen with a score of 38 

 

     Good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen, and welcome to the last Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club Clays Match of May 2011.  It was a great Spring day for a Clays match with a warm 62degrees, a light overcast, it was dry, and certainly no heaters were needed today,  

 

     First, before we even get started, our Match Director, Chuck Nicodemus, has an announcement.  The Clays matches have become so popular that our entries are approaching the max number of 24.  Today, for example, we had 20 guns entered, with several new shooters, and that is Great!  But this increased attendance has made it necessary to observe a strict cutoff time for entries of 4PM.  If you are signed up by 4:00PM, Great!!  Our Scorekeeper & DJ, Doug McLean, will have time to set his lineup without having to start over repeatedly and the match can begin on time and conclude in a timely manner.  So, in the future, if you are signed up for the Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club Clays Match by 4PM, then Welcome!!  If anyone arrives after 4PM, they can still watch, but not enter the match.  

 

     Thanks to our Match Staff for another great match.  We had 20 Guns enter the match today, and it went off very smoothly.  

Thanks for this success to our Match Director, Chuck Nicodemus; our Scorekeeper and DJ, Doug McLean; and to our Arrays Impressario, Darren Foreman, for another fine match.  It should be noted that Darren handled the arrays duties by himself today, as Chuck Treat is in Hawaii.  Match Staff, one and all, Thanks for a great match.

 

     As mentioned earlier, we had several new shooters today, and welcome to you all.  Mary Stevens made her debut today, and for her opening act took the Ladies & the Junior Class, and finished 3rd in Open.  Kathy Robert made her entrance with a 3rd Place Finish in the Ladies Class, and Todd Anderson made his entrance with a 2nd Place finish in the Limited Class.  Welcome to you all and we hope you had a great time and will make the Sunday Clays Matches a regular feature of your calendar.

 

     Our Arrays Impressario, Darren Foreman, bought us Page 2 of The Great Equalizer Series today.  Let's see what Page 2

looks like.

 

Round One

     Round 1 has 4 orange micros on the top row, 4 White Standards on the bottom row, and the black micro in the middle, in the middle. 

 

Round Two

     On the top row we see one orange micro, followed by one White Standard, followed by 2 orange micros.  On the bottom row we see a White Standard, then an orange micro, followed by 2 more White Standards.  The Black Micro In The Middle is right there, in the middle.

 

Round Three

     On the top row we see an orange micro, followed by two white Standards, followed by another orange micro.  On the bottom row, a White Standard leads 2 orange micros, followed by another White Standard.  In the middle of the screen lies the Black Micro In The Middle.

 

Round Four

     The clays now alternate, beginning on the top row with an orange micro, and on the bottom row with a White Standard.

Though the clays all alternate, as usual in the middle is The Black Micro. 

 

Round Five

      Euphemistically dubbed X Marks The Spot!!  From the outside top of the screens to the bottom inside lie the White Standards.

From the outside bottom to the inside top lie the four orange micros.  In the middle of the screens, as always, lies the black micro in the middle.  So let's see who did what today.

 

     In the Ladies Class, Mary Stevens, our new Junior Lady took the honors with a score of 35.  Gitti Anable placed 2nd in the

Ladies Class, with a score of 34.  Another new Clays Match Competitor, Kathy Robert, placed 3rd with a score of 24.

 

     In the Junior Class, our new Junior Lady shooter, Mary Stevens took the honors, with the same score of 35.  2nd Place Junior, Brian Tinner, shot a score of 26. 

 

     In the Open Class, Jay Schoonmaker won it with a score of 46.  2nd Open was claimed by Thor Palm who shot a score of 36.

Mary Stevens again appears on the leader board with, again, a score of 35, giving her a solid third place in the Open Class.

 

     In the Limited Class, Jim Skedd made a triumphal return to the matches with a score of 46.  Todd Anderson, another new Clays Match competitor, took 2nd Limited with a score of 39.  This reporter, Hal Hansen, took 3rd Limited with a score of 38.

 

     And that's the good news for today folks.  We'll see you right back here at 4:00PM next Sunday afternoon for another Clays Match.  Welcome once again to the new shooters, we hope you enjoyed the match and will return often in the future.  Until next Sunday then, always remember:

 

"SHOOT FAST!  SHOOT ACCURATELY!! BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, SHOOT SAFELY!!!"

 

Hal