Day 2 of the Lake Macquarie Games was held today, Sunday 25th at Fassifern.  The event was hosted by Westlakes Archers and Boolaroo Bowmen.  Beautiful weather once again and good representation from Erina Archery Club.  The 24 target marked field course was set out to be interesting and challenging with a variety of distances between 10m and 60m.  This event was more suited to our compound and recurve target archers, so there were some new archers that did not compete in day 1.  Our longbow archers did not compete today, leaving the locals to take the longbow medals.  Aaron Stanley, shooting compound freestyle, competed in his first field event today and is already looking for the next one to enter.

Once again, Erina Archery Club was well represented in the placings with an impressive medal tally.  Winners were:

David Markham – Gold Open Mens Recurve Freestyle

Kelvin Heath – Gold Master Mens Recurve Freestyle

Hayden Crampton – Gold Cub Compound Freestyle

Kerry Heath – Silver Master Womens Compound Freestyle

Erina Archery Club was very well represented at day 1 of the Lake Macquarie Games Archery event at Fassifern with 10 archers competing in longbow, compound, recurve and crossbow divisions.  Our team included archers of all ages from cub to veteran.  For some of the Erina team, this was our first unmarked distance shoot and first 3D event.  The shoot included several imaginative and difficult targets, including a crocodile floating on a pond, a fish underwater in stream and a black panther against a black background.  The maximum distance was 48 metres, the shortest was 10 metres.  Needless to say, some arrows were lost and broken but much fun was had by all.

The Erina Archery Club team did well in the placings with the following medal winners.  

Darrin Clements – Gold Male Open Longbow

Jon Wilmott – Bronze Male Open Longbow

Michael Whelan – Gold Male Veteran Longbow

Michael Graham – Gold Male Longbow

Mitchell Graham – Gold Cub Barebow Recurve

Rex Dayman – Gold Crossbow

Kerry Heath – Gold Female Open Compound Freestyle

Kelvin Heath – Gold Open Recurve Freestyle

Day 2 of the Lake Macquarie Games is tomorrow with a 24 target marked FITA Field event.

Andrew Crampton kindly took the time to inform me of the outcome of the South Coast Field tournament for the weekend 10-11 August.

• Kerry Heath - GOLD with a PB
• Kelvin Heath - GOLD with a PB as well
• Hayden Crampton - GOLD, beating the tournament record by 12 points, but missing a new state record by 10.
• Dean Conacher - BRONZE in the highly contested open division.  Not bad for his first tournament in over 3 years.
• Team "Raty" consisting of our compound archers (Dean, Kerry, Hayden) came against teams over 5 or more compound archers.