Colours Intervarsity Match

dCorbus

Any scores-on-the-doors yet for the Colours?

It wasn't me!

Congratulations to UCD. It was a seriously close match. Standards were extremely high across the board and it was not an easy win for them. We'll see them, and beat them, next year.

dCorbus

That's a pity.:(
Well done to UCDRC all the same.
Next year hopefully some silverware will be finding it's way into DURC's possession.;)

It wasn't me!

Yes indeed. As I say, the scores were very high. Top score was Aisling with 554 and top novice was Siobhan with 543. Novices shot into the 530s too. The standard has come such a long way. Realistically, to have a reasonable certainty of winning, novices would have to average 530 and seniors 545. This is absolutely brilliant to see. While the figures for novice score expectations may plateau (Realistically, you can only get someone so far in four months) the seniors will naturally continue to rise (and it could be argued that they should be scoring much better than fifteen points ahead of the novices on average to begin with). The competition is very strong, and that's good for all of us, and is why the intervarsities/colours is such an important competition.

emollett

Congrats to UCD. Nice top scores there. What was the diference between overall scores?

It wasn't me!

emollett wrote: »

Congrats to UCD. Nice top scores there. What was the diference between overall scores?

There were five points in it in the seniors match. The juniors was close too until there was a time issue in the last detail for one of our guys. Hell of a show though.

emollett

It wasn't me! wrote: »

There were five points in it in the seniors match. The juniors was close too until there was a time issue in the last detail for one of our guys. Hell of a show though.

5 isn't too bad at all! How much time?

Are things looking promising to get most of the juniors back out for the nationals?

It wasn't me!

emollett wrote: »

5 isn't too bad at all! How much time?

Are things looking promising to get most of the juniors back out for the nationals?

He had eight shots left to go at the end. There were a series of things that went wrong on that detail, everyone found themselves confused as to how much time they had left and it just didn't work out. These things happen though.

I think we'll get them all out now. We've a lot of them shooting smallbore as well, and with the outdoor season just around the corner, some of them will be getting into that and there's already plenty talk about the assorted national championships, so certainly lots of encouraging noises being made.

emollett

It wasn't me! wrote: »

He had eight shots left to go at the end. There were a series of things that went wrong on that detail, everyone found themselves confused as to how much time they had left and it just didn't work out. These things happen though.

I think we'll get them all out now. We've a lot of them shooting smallbore as well, and with the outdoor season just around the corner, some of them will be getting into that and there's already plenty talk about the assorted national championships, so certainly lots of encouraging noises being made.

Ah that is a shame.
Still, really nice to see a good close match happening.

Good to hear that the smallbore is picking up new faces too.

It wasn't me!

emollett wrote: »

Ah that is a shame.
Still, really nice to see a good close match happening.

Good to hear that the smallbore is picking up new faces too.

It is nice alright. The close proximity of the scores (and we knew it'd be close from the match results of the whole year so far) really drove the squad on to shoot what were frankly staggeringly good scores for only a few months of training. Brilliant to see.

Sparks

The time issue really was a pity, but damn it's hard to argue with those scores for people who've been shooting less than a year. Especially when you look at the scores from ten to twelve years ago for the college clubs - check the DURC scores from 2000:

                           UCD OPEN II   29-30/1/2000


                            RANKINGS - CHAMPIONSHIP

       RANK    NAME          CLASS CLUB        TEN-SHOT SERIES      TOTAL
       ------------------------------------------------------------------
         1. Rhona Barry         A  FSC      98  97  95  97  99  95   581
         2. Raymond Reilly      A  DURC     96  93  97  93  93  97   569
         3. Dr Nicola Murphy    A  UCD      94  96  93  96  94  94   567
         4. Ray Kane            A  PDF      96  94  94  90  94  94   562
         5. Paul O' Boyle       A  FSC      94  95  94  93  92  84   552
         6. Patrick T O'Brien   A  FSC      90  88  94  94  92  93   551
         7. Denise  O'Brien     B  UCD      84  87  90  93  88  89   531
         8. Andrew Fitzpatrick  B  UCD      86  89  83  84  88  92   522
         9. Ian Marnane         B  DURC     79  92  79  91  85  87   513
        10. Sharon Wall         D  DURC     83  72  72  77  79  79   462
        11. Alan Smyth          C  DURC     78  78  78  68  81  77   460
        12. John Egan           C  UCD      83  77  70  77  77  64   448
        13. Cormac Rooney       D  UCD      72  70  67  75  81  75   440
        14. John Egan           C  UCD      77  70  70  68  72  74   431
        15. Barry Hennessy      D  UCD      68  82  71  72  58  78   429
        16. Aisling Broderick   D  DURC     64  73  77  73  69  70   426
        17. Neil Maddox         D  UCD      79  62  62  64  68  76   411
        18. Mark Dennehy        D  DURC     65  70  64  67  65  63   394
        19. Enda Burton         D  UCD      61  70  55  67  70  61   384

The highest scores for the college clubs for people who weren't already alumni who'd been on the national squad for a while aren't great - Ian Marnane was the best air rifle shot we had in the club that year, and that score was about fair to middling for him. Nicola and Ray were alumni or staff and had been training on the national squad for years at that point, and Denise (and Ciara if she'd been there) were almost in the same boat. So you were really looking at 520 being the best we had in the college clubs and the mean was closed to 450-460. Today... we're almost a hundred points higher.
That's unbelievable progress, it really is, and the college clubs should be exceptionally proud of that.

Sparks

Scores from the Intervarsity:

Sparks

And some photos from the match:

Sparks

Intervarsities and Colours 2011
|S/J|1|2|3|4|5|6|Total|College
1st detail|||||||||
Yuecong Wang|J|84|92|81|93|93|88|531|UCDRC
Elizabeth Dunne|J|74|80|86|79|79|83|481|UCDRC
Katharina Wilhelm|S|80|87|91|87|88|89|522|DURC
Logan Heeren|J|83|85|84|88|82|85|507|DURC
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2nd detail|||||||||
Donal Bourke|J|78|90|87|79|91|90|515|UCDRC
Joseph Thompson|S|93|87|95|87|82|90|534|UCDRC
Siobhan Scarlett|J|89|91|92|91|91|89|543|DURC
Ian Beatty-Orr|S|80|83|82|83|75|86|489|DURC
Michael Cullinane|S|95|85|89|94|85|89|537|DURC
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3rd detail|||||||||
Jizhao Liu|J|77|84|91|93|89|91|525|UCDRC
John Lancaster|S|88|91|85|95|95|94|548|UCDRC
Tian Carey|S|89|90|92|87|87|89|534|UCDRC
Ivan De Wergifosse|J|89|89|89|90|90|90|537|DURC
Julian Ewers-Peters|J|83|76|84|84|79|83|489|DURC
Diyu Wu|S|91|87|90|91|93|89|541|DURC
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4th detail|||||||||
Cillian O'Sullivan|S|94|91|88|90|87|93|543|UCDRC
Evan Boyd|J|89|89|86|89|92|91|536|UCDRC
Aisling Miller|S|91|90|89|93|97|94|554|DURC
Claudio Sansone|J|67|81|71|79|81|87|466|DURC
Frank Lavery|J|87|83|89|86|82|12|439|DURC
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5th detail|||||||||
Claire Leyden|J|85|89|90|77|87|89|517|UCDRC
Maria Tracey|J|95|88|92|76|88|85|524|UCDRC
Sean O'Callaghan|J|85|83|83|89|86|77|503|DURC
Tim Hynes|S|88|86|87|84|87|83|515|DURC
Siobhan G|J|81|77|78|82|87|89|494|DURC
Caitriona Murphy|S|87|85|84|83|83|72|494|DURC


Summary Statistics
UCDRC|Score|Avg.||DURC|Score|Avg.||delta
Senior|2159|539.75| |Senior|2154|538.50| |5
Junior|3148|524.67| |Junior|3018|503.00| |130

UCD Total|5307|530.70| |DURC Total|5172|517.20| |135


Top Shooters
Shooter|Class|Club|Score
Ashling Miller|Senior|DURC|554
Siobhan Scarlett|Junior|DURC|543

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I'll add my congratulations to everyone that took part. The scores put in by the novices were nothing short of fantastic on both sides and the depth of the squads was great, with 10 of the novices shooting over 500.

It was a close competition all the way through, with a few hickups along the way for both teams. In the end though UCD had nudged enough ahead that DURC's shooter timing out made no material difference to the result (he'd have needed a 574 just to tie it)


Here's the object of affection (well one of the three) and it seems to have picked up a souvenir over the weekend!

MiGiD

I don't know who's sunglasses you stole because they're not ours

Sparks

From [url=]the NTSA website[/url]:

UCD Rifle Club win Air Rifle Intervarsities and Colours 2011
Tuesday, 08 March 2011 22:12 Airgun Coordinator

The 2011 Air Rifle Intervarsities and Colours were held on Saturday, 5th of March 2011, in Wilkinstown Target Shooting Club, Wilkinstown, Co. Meath.

The Intervarsities is split into three sections, the novice or junior squad, the senior squad and the overall which is the combination of the novice and senior squads scores. UCD took a clean sweep for a second year in a row by winning all three sections.

After an incredibly highly scoring five details, UCDRC finished with a total score of 5307 beating out DURC (Trinity) by 135 points in total. UCD Juniors managed to achieve a truly magnificent average of 524, which put the result beyond doubt.

Summary Statistics
UCDRC|Score|Avg.|DURC|Score|Avg.
Senior|2159|539.75|Senior|2154|538.50
Junior|3148|524.67|Junior|3018|503.00
UCD Total|5307|530.70|DURC Total|5172|517.20

Full results here.