Morgan, Azan Jnr share Skeet Club honours
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Hurbun Williams, Observer staff reporter
Monday, July 31, 2006
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| Richard Azan Jnr with two of the seven trophies he received at Wednesday night's NEM All Jamaica Skeet Championship awards ceremony. (Photo: Joseph Wellington) |
Jamaica Skeet Club president Dennis Morgan took the highest overall honour at Wednesday night's annual awards ceremony for the NEM All Jamaica Shotgun Championship at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston.
It was, however, 12 year old Richard Azan Jnr who hugged the spotlight by walking away with seven trophies to emerge with the top junior tandem after a fantastic run of successes in the junior and E Class events of the NEM Championships that were held in Sligoville from June 15 to 23.
Like father, like son, young Richard is the son of noted racehorse owner and trainer Richard Azan, himself a former All Jamaica Skeet Champion and Sporting Clay Open Championship title holder.
Morgan, who took up the sport some eight years ago but was an abject failure, on Wednesday night experienced the value of perseverance as he walked forward to receive his first major championship award, that of the All Jamaica Skeet champion for 2006.
Competing in the three-way Championship Morgan placed second in the All Jamaica FITASC with a score of 84 points to winner Robert Yap's 87. Morgan then returned to win the NEM All Jamaica 5 Stand with a score of 90 points over Errol Ziadie's 88 and in the third and final championship event, the NEM All Jamaica Sporting Clay Open tied with Bobby Chung on 178 points each.
In the shoot-off, to break the deadlock, Morgan emerged victorious after outgunning Chung in the 200 target showdown to be the overall winner of the three-tiered Championship. Errol Ziadie finished second with Bobby Chung taking third spot.
Azan Jnr, though exposed to Skeet shooting from a toddler, had only been shooting regularly with his father's gun for the past 18 months. This year's multiple successes have shown that when he mimicked his father's every move as a toddler with his toy gun, it was not for the mere fun of it.
He was "actually learning the manly art of skeet shooting in his imaginary way so that he could perhaps acquire the feel for the exercise and grow up with the expectation to try and emulate his father's success on the range".
In the just-concluded championship, Azan Jnr ran away with the junior and E Class sections of the NEM All Jamaica FITASC, the NEM All Jamaica 5 Stand and the NEM All Jamaica Sporting Clay, along with taking the Handicap event for a seven-trophy haul.
Final results for A Class in the three categories are:
FITASC: 1 Robert Yap 87 points; 2 Dennis Morgan 84 points; Craig Simpson 83 points. 5 Stand: 1 Dennis Morgan 90 points 2 Errol Ziadie 88 points 3 Ian Banks 87 points.
Sporting Clay: In this event Morgan and Chung tied on 178 points apiece and had to re-engage in an extra shoot-out to decide the winner, which Morgan duly won.
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