Blue Lake Archers recently enjoyed a relaxed evening of indoor archery and suitable weather for an outdoor archery round.

The indoor range was back to an easy paced club style event for the Friday night event, the timing gear was having a rest and all archers were able to shoot at the same time for a more normal social atmosphere.

Two rounds of the familiar Australian 18 metre round produced two different winners.

Garry Jacques dominated the opening round, where the top four archers all equalled or exceeded the 300 point benchmark.

Jacques led home Matt Delaney by three points as Blade Delaney and Jeff Puckridge rounded out the top four.

Matt Delaney had equalled his previous personal best in the first round and went one point better in the follow up round to set a new personal best of 280 points off the bow.

Fiona Allison made a charge up the field to act as Delaney’s main rival at the top of the result list, Delaney held off the challenge to celebrate the win and the personal best for a memorable night on the indoor range.

The Sunday event was reasonable for a winter’s day with mild wind conditions and only occasional very light drizzle that was not enough to stop the competition on the archery range.

The dual events set up on the range were a 30 metre Geelong and a triple distance Short Canberra over 50, 40 and 30 metres.

Allan Oschar and Alex McDonell have progressed steadily with their accuracy since taking up the sport and pushed their adjusted scores out of reach of their rivals to be the leaders at the end of the day.

Oschar set a new personal best and won the day 21 points clear of McDonnell, both archers exceeding their benchmarks.