This past Saturday, Manual hosted the third annual Downtown Throw Down Archery Tournament, with various schools competing.
The first flight began at 8 a.m., with Manual, North Oldham High and North Oldham Middle schools competing. All archers were asked to stand by their targets to determine if anyone didn’t have an opponent.
After all matches were set, the archers began their 10-meter practice round. After each duo had shot their 10 arrows, they placed their bows on the bow rack and returned to their seats and waited before being asked to retrieve their arrows.
Minutes later the first round out of three 10-meter rounds, began. After shooting all 10 arrows, every archer walked back to their seats.
Shortly after, the archers went back to their targets to score their opponents and retrieve their arrows.
After all arrows were returned to their respective quivers, the second scoring rounds began.
During the second 10-meter scoring round, Tristan Meredith (11, YPAS) was congratulated over the speaker for scoring 50 points. Meredith also scored 19 10-point arrows, marking his personal best.
Apoorva Anurradha Venkat (11, MST) and Cami Beumer (11, HSU) also scored various 10-point arrows, 18 each.
The last 10-meter scoring round was at 8:25 a.m. After each archer moved their quivers to the 15-meter mark. Once everything was in position they began their practice round.
After returning all their arrows, the first scoring round for 15-meter began. The archers proceeded to score their opponents. This continued until the last scoring round.
Once the last 15-meter round ended, the archers moved their quivers back to the 10-meter mark in preparation for the second flight of the day.
“My first flight went good, not as great as I would’ve hoped but I only had a few fly arrows” Eleanor Hoben (10, MST) said. Although Hoben had some fly arrows, she scored 13 10-point arrows.
The second flight began at 9 a.m. Various schools competed in this flight, including Manual, Mercy, Our Savior, Meredith Dunn and North Oldham.
However, only two archers representing Manual competed in comparison to the 13 Manual students in the first flight.
The same starting process occurred for flight two, where all archers were asked to stand at their target and match any single archers. The archers also ensured that no school had teammates going against each other, given that there were more schools competing this flight.
The archers began their practice round at 9:05 a.m. and quickly moved on to their first and second scoring rounds.
At the third 10-meter scoring round, archers were asked to move their quivers to the 15-meter mark. Soon after, they began the last three scoring rounds of flight two and moved their quivers back to the 10-meter mark for the third flight of the day, which would conclude the tournament.
“Archery is really just about your mindset, if you’re going to come in with a bad attitude you’re going to shoot really bad, archery is such a mental game” Hoben said.
To see the final results of the tournament, click here.
