Mollie Perrett is proving to be an unstoppable force in the Recurve Archery competitions at this year’s Orkney Island Games.
Mollie Perrett won four successive Head-to-Head matches to strive for gold in the Women’s Recurve Head-to-Head Knockout competition. A feat never achieved by a female Jersey athlete.
Perrett began with a 6-0 victory over Orkney’s Rosanne Copland. Advancing to the Quarter Finals she met the talented Kirsty Lewis from the Falkland Islands. Standing up to the challenge Perrett prevailed 6-4 in a tight match-up.
Perrett faced the eventual bronze medal winner Duna Anne Rocha Martos from Menorca in the Semi-Final. Perrett continued to convey her composure beating her opponent 6-2.
In the Final, Perrett went arrow-to-arrow with Guernsey’s Monika Komla. Perrett’s opponent showed her ability in the Single WA 1440 Women’s Recurve on Monday, winning the bronze medal, making for a great Final match-up.
Perrett did not succumb to the pressure of the rivalry; she did quite the opposite. Perrett one 6 straight games to put her opponent to bed securing her second individual gold of the games, and her third overall.
Guernsey’s Zoe Gray prevailed in the Women’s Compound Head-to-Head Knockout winning gold, her second medal of the Games. Gray beat Jersey’s Hannah Bridle 134-129 to advance to the Final, where she met Faroe’s Anja Eydnudottir.
Gray was triumphant in the Final winning 137-132 to earn Guernsey another gold medal.
Eydnudottir also toppled a Jersey athlete in the Semi-Final in Angela Perrett, meaning the bronze medal play-off was a guaranteed medal for Jersey.
Bridle took home the bronze medal with a 131-120 win over Perrett senior.