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2009 DTL County Final - Mid Wales Shooting Centre - October 4th 2009

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Introduction

The 2009 DTL Inter Counties Final took place at Mid Wales Shooting Centre on Sunday 4th October.

We had experienced a bit of of an Indian Summer during September, but on the morning of the shoot it was overcast with drizzle. But fear not - Angie Goodman wasn't present this year as she was in South Africa for her big 50th birthday - but even though she was thousands of miles away - she got the local witch doctor to conjure up some good weather for us and it worked !

The scene was set - the day was brightening up and it was very still - the targets would fly true with no interference from the wind - game on !

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The Shoot

6 counties were present again this year.

There were over twenty squads out to shoot and to make it fair – all squads were put through at once. This meant that you wouldn’t find the scenario where one squad had better conditions than another because one shot in the morning and one in the afternoon. Although this meant a fair wait between lines, it added to the friendly social side of this annual Welsh counties competition we have all come to enjoy.

There was also some extra entertainment in the form of a double rise pool shoot to keep competitors occupied between their DTL lines. This pool shoot was single handily organised by Gareth Wyn Evans in aid of the 2010 World DTL team who are travelling out to South Africa.

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Onto the shoot – at the half way stage there was a fair bit of red posted up on the score boards – indicating that there were some people out there finding their feet very early on.

From an individual point of view Gwynedd’s Ifor Williams and Mid Glamorgan’s Phil Morgan had both posted 50/150 straights. Mid Glamorgan’s Ann Butler was also aiming for top lady again and was only one bird down at fifty. Top veteran at this stage with 50/144 was Clwyds Eric Davies. The juniors out in front at this stage were BW Griffiths, RT Jones and GL Roberts – all hitting 50 targets (with the odd second barrel thrown in). Top colts at this stage were R Davies (48ex50) and G Davies (46ex50). So some very fine shooting to start off this event from our finest Welsh county and international shooters.

Onto the teams and over the last three years – Gwent and Clwyd have been in the top two final results - both battling for the first place seniors position. Clwyd are now on two back to back wins, would this be a third or would one of the other 5 teams knock them off the top spot this year? It's hard to make too many team predictions at the half way point because things can change so easily, but it was the Mid Glamorgan team that were stirring things up – their whole team sheet had more red on it than the rest of the score board put together ! Would this drive on the other teams for the final 50 or would Mid Glamorgan shake things up and hold onto the lead ?

Here's a few pictures from around the ground before the results and presentations:

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Once all the teams had finished and the pool shoot was wrapped up, it was off to the clubhouse for the presentation and the eagerly awaited results.

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Overall Individual Results

We will start off with the highest scorer overall and after his amazing start, Gwynedd's IW Williams (Ifor) continued in fine fashion and shot the only 100/300 of the day and as a result was crowned 2009 Welsh DTL Counties High Gun Champion. Well done Ifor and well deserved with such an impressive score.

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Onto the 2009 Welsh DTL Counties Ladies Champion. It would be Mid Glamorgans AE Butler (Ann) who would take the title after starting so well earlier in the day. Ann ended with an excellent 99/291. Ann has now won this title for 3 years running - congratulations Ann.

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Top veteran of the day again was also the same as the leader at the 50 stage - it was EL Davies (Eric) of Clwyd shooting 100/291. Well done Eric.

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The top junior of the day was Gwynedd's GL Roberts who shot an impressive 100/292 - a score to match some of the seniors and now titled 2009 Welsh DTL Junior Counties Champion. Well done, impressive performance.

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Although Powys colt R Davies was leading at the 50 stage, it was Dyfeds G Davies who shot 95/280 and who was to be crowned Welsh DTL 2009 Colt Counties Champion. Congratulations, we hope to see a lot more of you in the future.

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Finally and onto the captains cup and this year it was won by Matt Moxlow of Gwynedd with 98/289. Congratulations.

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The Pool Shoot

The pool shoot raised over £170 towards the Welsh DTL team travelling to the World DTL final in South Africa in 2010. Thanks again to Gareth Wyn Evans for organising the pool shoot, the two winners were Phil Morgan and Geoff Seabourne who shared the £50 prize fund after shooting a perfect ten each.

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Overall Team Results

In 2008 the ladies team title was won by Clwyd, but this year the tables were turned and the winning ladies team were the pairing of AE Butler and G Morgan from Mid Glamorgan who scored 563/600 - 68 points clear of second place Powys! Well done ladies, an impressive result.

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The Veterans team title in 2008 was taken by the strong Gwent veterans partnership - would history repeat itself in 2009 ? Unfortunately for Gwent it would be the Clwyd partnership of Eric Davies (who had already taken the overall individual veterans title) and Ton Devaney who would take the title in 2009 - their joint scoring being a total of 577ex 600. The Clwyd veterans were 13 points ahead of second place Gwynedd.

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The Juniors team title in 2008 was taken by the strong Powys partnership of RT Jones and BW Griffiths and history was to repeat itself again this year and they were to be crowned 2009 Welsh DTL Counties Junior Team Champions with a score of 577 ex 600, 33 points clear of second place juniors Gwynedd. Well done lads and congratulations on two years of back to back wins.

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Finally down to the seniors team category. Each county has 10 senior representatives and the top 9 scores are counted. For the last two years Clwyd have won the title, but after the first 50 it was the county of Mid Glamorgan that were looking stronger. Things changed however over the final 50 and in third place this year was Dyfed with a fine score of 2539 ex 2700. In runners up position this year was Gwynedd with 2539 ex 2700, but the winners again - now for three years in a row were the Clwyd senior team - 41 points ahead of their nearest rivals Gwynedd.

Statistically this is how things looked at the end - the average score per man (per team):

Clwyd - 286.8
Gwynedd - 282.1
Dyfed - 281

Clwyd captain for 2009 "Jim Spence" stepped up and accepted the senior team shield for Clwyd. A picture of Jim and a picture of the Clwyd senior team - 2009 Welsh DTL Counties Champions are shown below:

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Matt Moxlow received the runners up senior team shield on behalf of Gwynedd - shown below:

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The following pictures are of the various county teams with their new caps and trophies that they give to their team members:

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Results Summary

Position	Result
Senior Team Champions	Clwyd 2582
Seniors Runner-Up	Gwynedd 2539
Seniors Third	Dyfed 2529
Seniors Fourth	Mid Glamorgan 2522
Seniors Fifth	Powys 2454
Seniors Sixth	Gwent 2427

Ladies Team Champions	A.E. Butler & G Morgan (Mid Glamorgan)

Veterans Team Champions	E.L. Davies & T.H. Devaney (Clwyd)

Juniors Team Champions	B.W. Griffiths & R.T.Jones (Powys)

Senior High Gun	I.W. Williams 100/300 (Gwynedd)
Captains Cup
Ladies High Gun	A.E. Butler 99/291 (Mid Glamorgan)
Veterans High Gun	E.L.Davies 100/291 (Clwyd)
Junior High Gun	G.L. Roberts 100/292 (Gwynedd)

Clwyd High Gun Shield	A.G. Jones 99/294
Gwent High Gun Shield	D Medlicott 99/295
Powys High Gun Shield	EG Parry 99/290

Thank You

Thanks again to Mid Wales Shooting Centre, all the Williams family, their staff and helpers for another excellent event which was enjoyed by everybody.

We must also thank Angie Goodman for all the work that she puts into preparing and organising each and every county final and even though she was wasn't there - the shoot still run like clockwork and is a credit to her.

Thanks as always to Brian "number cruncher" Davies, Rita Williams and Yvonne Rees for all the hard work calculating the scores during the day.

Thanks to Arthur Williams WCTSA President and WCTSA Chairman Daff Davies for the speeches and presentation of trophies.

Thanks to all the County co-ordinators, without the effort of these individuals your teams wouldn't get to these finals - so thanks from all of us.

Thanks finally to you the shooters for making this a really enjoyable shoot year in year out.

We hope to see you all again next year !

Report and photo's by - David Lea (Webmaster).
Statistics by - Yvonne Rees & Brian Davies.

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