Braintree Bowmen Archery Club boasted a one-two at the Essex Outdoor County Junior Championships thanks to the shooting talents of Imogen Newby and Sydney Strugnell.

The county’s best young archers gathered at a Noak Hill venue that lived up to its reputation for having windy conditions, so it was less than ideal for shooting high scores.

The competition shot was a Bristol V round, with 144 arrows shot at 122cm targets at distances of 30, 20 and ten yards.

It was Strugnell’s first Essex Championships and first Bristol V shoot, but she hit 36 out of 72 golds at 30 yards, before making 35 out of 48 at 20 and followed that with a strong showing at ten yards to finish on 1,174 points for second place in the under-12 ladies’ recurve.

Meanwhile, Newby continued the strong form she has showed this summer and that earned her several new county records while on Essex duty the week before.

A score of 598 out of 648 was an excellent start at 30 yards, before dropping just eight points out of a maximum 432 at the next distance in and a perfect 216 out of 216 at ten yards wrapped up the under-12 ladies’ recurve title.

Newby’s score of 1,238 was just six points short of another county record and also saw the ten-year-old ace take home the under-13 and under-18 ladies’ trophies for overall best score of the day.