Well the day started as it meant to carry on with changing light and very blustery winds, but that didn’t stop Matt Sheldrake and last year’s Champion going at it hammer and tongs again, but this year we had a reversal of last year’s results when Paul came out on top as County Champion and Matt was Senior Champ.  This year Matt shot 98/288 enough to take the title for 2019 with Paul finishing with 98/286 and the Senior title.  This was very good shooting in this weather and I guess at any time, and with 46 entries this year it was not a push over by any means.

So we have our Champ Matt Sheldrake 98/288

Senior Paul Ward  98/ 286

Ladies Amelia Smith 86/248.

Vets Richard Croft   95/ 262

Colts Samuel Halls   96/256

AA   Richard Morris   88/253

A     Steve Eley         94/278

B     Corbie Barnard     97 /284 (well shot Corbie)

C     Marcus Lord      92/275

Well shot folks in very hard trying conditions, and many thanks to Cambridge GC for their hospitality. For full set of scores on the national CPSA website see here.

s don’t always go as planned as it didn’t for Richard Morris on this day but he completed the next 50 targets to finish with 99/292 as did his dad Chris Morris.  We still had a strong contingent to follow with the likes of Matt Sheldrake and Paul Ward (who last won this trophy in 1992) and Philip Barnard sporting a new Beretta which works at skeet having shot a 96 at Nottingham in the EM championship in the morning, before getting to Cambridge GC to change the chokes for DTL.

The weather was good but for a varying wind making the odd target either raise or drop but not too bad considering the disastrous last few months.

As the scores started coming in it was clear that it was not possible to pick a clear winner as yet.

But at the end of the day we had a clear Champion in Paul Ward with a 100/296 closely followed by Matt Sheldrake with 99/295.  To add to the excitement Richard Croft came in with a 100/295; Richard being a Vet had it sewn up for his first ever county championship.  Geoff Howlet a Suffolk shooter put in a super 299 to take High Gun over all, but lucky for the Cambs shooters he couldn’t take the Cambridgeshire Championship.

Results were:

Champion         Paul Ward

Senior              Matt Sheldrake

Ladies              Hazel Whiten (not for the first time)

Colts                Ethan Lord

Vets                 Richard Croft

AA Richard Morris

A   Chris Morris

B   Brian Jacobs

C   Jason Pereira

Well done to everyone who entered and many thanks to Cambridge Gun Club once again.

Allan Wright

Champion Richard Morris 100/299

Senior Champion Chris Morris 99/293

Vets Champion   Gordon Webster 97/287

Junior Champion Taylor Hedgecock 98/287

Ladies Champion Hazel Whiten     97/286

Colt Champion Archie Bowman    90/252

Class winners:

AA  Matt Sheldrake
A  Chris Morris
B  Phil Barnard
C Gordon Tate

Full results including non-Cambridgeshire shooters are here.