Nikki Curtis, Lisa Zuber, Catherine Papagni and the legendary Connie Calloway take the stage for Women’s Masters Open at the 2024 Lancaster Archery Classic.
We’re here at the spooky Nick sports complex in Manheim Pennsylvania for the 20th Lancaster Archery classic and this is a look at how qualifications are shot this is only half of the Arena that we shoot in and archers came here on Thursday and Friday for a variety of
Lines as our scoring is brought to you by dead center archery products well yeah you stand up there and you shoot 60 arrows three time three arrows at a time and the Very middle circle is worth 11 points for a total possible point of 660 and now it’s time for another finals
Shoot up event that we have here hello everyone welcome to the broadcast Booth I’m Greg White sitting alongside Rio Wild multi-time World Champ 14 time gold medalist and World archery I mean what hasn’t this guy done he’s got a release called the goat and he’s here giving us
All of his expert commentary Rio it’s been an outstanding day of archery so far today hasn’t it oh it has it’s been awesome we’ve had different things from ties the a guy going for a 12 in a shoot off to gu starting out really good it’s
Just been a really fun bunch of matches and of course these archers make their way into this final Arena and here’s what is on Deck so we’ve had the Senior Open Women’s Open Masters open done and dusted right now it’s the women’s Master open category those are all compounds
Then we’re going to jump into a couple of those recurve categories with youth then back to compound for Youth female open then women’s bearb and Bebo to finish us off those two hotly contested and popular categories now for this one Rio four people qualified for our shoot
Up tell us about it they walk in as a seated as 1 2 3 4 where number three and four will shoot against each other with the winner advancing on to face number two and so on and so on all the way till the end when we end up with a champion
For each division that’s right and that bottom up format is very exciting all right folks we’re going to get started open all right we have Katherine pagy she is our fifth place qualifier from Bethlehem PA let’s give her a hand she won the 2022 classic and is was
The first women’s Masters Open champ what an accomplishment [Applause] wow next we have Nikki Curtis from udica Kentucky let’s give her a big round of applause she was the ASA classic champ in 2014 and the class made the classic shoot up stage in 20123 I’m assuming you chose yes sir you
Also to choose first or second as’s a look at Nikki Curtis course 10 years shooting and ASA classic champ is nothing to sneeze at and here’s pagne from Bethlehem PA you would think there be some people cheering her on here in Pennsylvania the course 2022 moncaster archery classic champion in this
Division so a couple really strong Shooters and of course you have to be to get to this point this is the final four and this is to decide who is going to be fourth place who’s guaranteed a Podium spot the winner will be and they continue to shoot up towards that number
One spot in the title of champion all right so here we go first arrows are going to fly and it’s nothing and easy this is a tough stage to step out on 11 and she pulls out whips 11 to start it off and just take a look at
That you tell your competitor and it makes for really good good feelings 10 all right one of the things that we’re looking for here off camera too is a nice deep breath from Curtis you know just to settle those nerves a little bit plenty of time on the shot clock still
At this point 15 seconds to go nine little bit out to the right nine so each arer has 30 seconds to execute their shots here in the shoot up final matches n h had a chance for an opening there after the first Arrow didn’t capitalize on it too much and we
Continue to see that don’t we R oh yeah we talked about it earlier he’s like if one person struggles it leads to the other struggle and it’s just kind of I’ve seen it through archery for years it just is adding that pressure and it’s can they either handle it or not
11 shot in that first end nerves now escaping Nikki Curtis this is pagy 10 I think it just hung a 10 see these ladies now I can see where propag you see making a slight adjustment on the site and here’s Casey po welcome back to the Classic Stage how are you feeling up
There today good yeah how many Classics have you been to um my gosh I think this is maybe I don’t know a whole bunch well good it’s good to have you back tell me about what bow and all the equipment you’re shooting today so this is a psse
Performx 3D America’s best bow string strings um I still have that antique Sherlock um site um AAE hot rod bars um Black Eagle arrows and a Tre ball release all right I like it it’s all matching in pink very nice all right after the first end we
Have Katherine with a 29 and Nikki with a 31 have Choice again first all right so 31 29 and again just like I talked about that 11 being really hard to hit mhm you know I mean Katherine has two t and Nikki has two 11s that’s literally the difference in the match and the way you
Come out of the out of the gate to start it it really can be it could be the difference in the match Yep looks like for Curtis got that nose button Str she shoot a little shorter bow and I think that helps her have some consistency with her
An shorter bone meaning the axle axle y so you get a little more of a string angle that’s a little harder to to touch your face I’d like to know how many pounds she shooting it seems to be pretty fast but she seems to be
Working to get it back so I’d be curious if that’s especially with 3D season coming right around the corner eight the door yeah that one broke quite High n none of these archers right now are really taking command of this match no it’s almost like here you take it no you
Take it it’s kind of like I’ve seen those matches before so 11 there you go and there’s nothing more frustrating than those because you just you’re trying so hard to shoot well and it just seems like it’s not coming for you and it’s a it’s a tough
Thing 10 just a little bit to the right let’s give him a big round of applause unofficially 5659 we’ll wait for that Arrow call but let’s get back down to Casey cof now Nikki I noticed before every shot you take your time stare at the Target and take a deep
Breath what are you thinking about in those moments before you take your shot just trying to concentrate settle that’s what I do every time practice or competition very good lots of focus I can see it tell me about your equipment today uh Elite ethos um and then we have
An XL site um clear Target sln with a Big Dot and hsky Peep and rest Beast singer bars arrows attack BS Blade Pro or Blade Pro release very nice all right we have our scores for the second end here Catherine is at 57 all right so it’s going to be
5759 so onepoint match a two-point match yep and this these arrows were it was a different end I mean she started off with a nine then an eight and and picked it up and finished with 11 which has pretty much given her that little bit of an
Edge and I do like the fact that Niki Curtis in the lead has a choice to shoot first or second shoot first and again that that’s not as much of a play 11 before we had the 12 but now the 12 it becomes a real different thought process on how everyone chooses
To shoot first or second cuz it it can be the other person can sneak up shoot that last Arrow it’s a 12 and you be like w I didn’t know y yeah it’s right on the line I think that one’s there so too might put an aster next to that
One yeah you can see a really good look at that nose button mhm 11 just another contact point to yeah for security Archer make sure that Anchor Point is in the right spot well in the past with the longer bows the string angles is more and your string that come to the corner
Of your mouth so it gave you one reference now without that the nose becomes another part and that button helps you reach it even with the string angle being is so dramatically smaller oh she wasn’t happy with that not at all and can she capitalize 11 she Did takes it from tring by two to gy one and I think that t isn’t 11 the first one a lot of comp you know’s a lot of pressure shooting up on the stage how do you prepare there’s really no way to prepare for this um you know know we we
Try our best to prepare for situations like this but the nerves are extreme how do you feel this time compared to last year same I mean it doesn’t matter how many times you shoot this shoot um the nor nerves are refreshed every year that’s what makes it fun keeps it
Interesting we’re waiting on some scores here you know Ria over the years you know there’s been conversations I’ve had with a variety of pro shooters tried to simulate I remember when Paul Tedford was at the top of his game and and uh was shooting we used to talk about hey
I’m going to actually do a practice round and I’m going to live stream it on Facebook you know just to try to generate some some different types of pressure and it was really weird because I tried it once and I remember thinking the phone was like down at the Target
Not facing me and I’m like who’s making comments like I wonder what they’re saying and you kind of lose your your your focus but but it’s not focus you would lose at a place like this no it’s so different and I I even uh if any of
You know my stman the armless Archer he one time jumped out of a plane and then landed and started shooting to see if he could simulate the adrenaline and I’m like was it he’s like not really it was totally different but I’m like people have tried all kinds of things to get
There that just sounds like that and you just can’t you can’t like it’s just got to be here all right so Mick K is trying to come back after that seven solid nine and we were tied at 88 so she one of those was yeah one of those is back in So now
All sudden just like that two P ra with two arrows left 10 we’re going to get a 12 we going to have see if she hits butt 10 oh yeah see yeah oh she’s looking at it she’s looking down she going to do it she does y smart move I think 12 is called just a little high left yeah yeah cther just needs to go ahead make a good shot here just keeping the
Yellow and a n just catches that Yellow and the big sigh yeah unofficially 18 to 116 nikk Curtis will be our fourth place finisher let’s go to Casey what made you decide to go for the 12 I don’t know just Instinct I like it gut feeling how many go ahead where I was
That’s all right I like the Instinct so how many times have you been to the classic um about four times now is this your first time on the stage second second there you go all right we have our official scores for this round our winner is Katherine
Pagne let’s give her a big round of [Applause] applause congratulations to Nikki who will be going home with fourth place and $250 all right so guaranteed a Podium for Katherine pagy she shoots up all right next up now let’s get toy from lville Virginia let’s give her a big hand she was the 2023 classic champ the 2023 IBO World Champ and more in this good past year of 2023 all right so Lisa Zuber
They 14 years 2023 class champion and Rio I think that zubra made the move in terms of getting pagne off of her spot and moving her over to Target number two I think that’s the move yep I think like again I think a lot of people feel that that is a big
Big thing they need to do and sometimes I think it’s a thing sometimes I don’t and but we learned a minute ago someone didn’t want to look at the crowd not something I would have ever thought about but yeah everybody has their own aspect when they get out there as to
What can affect them the most and what they can see all right so here we go she’s our defending Champion so now that adds another aspect of of pressure onto it too n outside right from our perspective no movement on the site so obviously that was more of one of those nerve shots
11 M pagne gets right into the groove and again there’s that Advantage showing up of someone being out there prior she was all dialed in she knew where she was hitting [Applause] 10 Nice Shot in the middle just a little high n well that first D didn’t cost her as
Much Catherine gave her back when it didn’t seem to hurt as bad 11 there you go now she’s got it in and rolling I mean we’ve seen that too the last couple there’s been a few matches that we our first Dr was it nine and then go 10 and then
11 you see the neres starting to get to her she’s moving a lot more than she has been yeah she didn’t like that one at all yeah that was almost one of those shots where you go who wait was it NE yellow I’ll take that yeah the definite
Takeoff was not where you would have liked for it to be Champion ban up there how’s it feel to be back up on stage same nerves as last year seems to be a common theme around here well tell me what you’re shooting today I have the Matthews CRX 38 um qab dropway
Rest ultrafuse scope shooting feasting or stabilizers and triple X very nice all pretty and pink y’all are matching same sort of theme I like it all right we have our first end scores let’s see Katherine has a 29 and Lisa has a 30 going into the
Second end Zuber shots and how she got to her 29 and again she started off with the the first one a little right little high dialed it in put the last one yeah just kind of letting those nerves kind of settle away all right so on our board we have 30 to
29 she’s going to continue to start off shooting first which this other than the 12 has always been a smart one because you can put it in and let them look at it and add the pressure especially with that the monitor up above well Arrow be hard arrows being called and like all
That you know what they’ve shot the hard part is just is making the arrows go in so that they have to look at them 11 wow for such a long hold yeah really good shot really Lisa Uber made it work for yeah quick shot looks like it’s really
Close on the line 11 10 ler it’s very close 10 by the way if you’re someone who hunts and you’re watching target archery for the first time and you’re thinking are these shooters shooting telephone poles they’re not tell us about it Rio what are the arrow diameter these arrows
Uh I’m not sure on the women what they run because a lot of the men will run a 27,000 it’s a it’s a bigger Arrow because you want to catch both lines like you don’t want this little itty bitty thing cuz it makes it harder to hit the bigger lines um the women
Sometimes will run a 23 SI 25 26s there’s a lot of different variances in there but they do try to use the bigger Arrow so that it helps them catch the lines 11 nice shot Yeah so you can see we have the asteris on a couple of those score values we’re have to wait to find out from the judges let’s get back to you want to shout out just PC family and uh hopefully my mom and my sister and my brothers very
Nice and who do you have standing behind you today this is my boyfriend Rich McKay how are you doing Rich wonderful how is it being up here coaching I don’t know who’s more nervous her or me we all make a good team you’re doing great yeah and that’s Cornerstone really AR
Isn’t it family yeah I mean it was a lot of years you spent with your family on the road shooting bows all over the world all over the country well and the cool part about the sport is it’s like a family even with the other people they I
I I’ve had times I’ve given my backup B to people to to compete because something’s gone wrong or in that Avenue and and Archer is just a really tight close-knit community like it’s a a really cool thing I think out of all the sports so just a little longer on the
Arrow calls to make a decision and it looks like we have went 1111 for 32 and Catherine pagy went 11911 so two-point Advantage for Zuber we have two ends remaining in this match the winner will go shoot against the number one seed for these shoot ups for this women’s Masters open
Category and and we’ve seen the two points not meet a lot like in the last match we saw it flip from two points down to two points up in the three arrows so this can go any way in a hurry 11 it’s a good pick up after
Having the the peep what what she really happened was as she came back I don’t think she could see through her peep so she let up turned her string a little bit and got it fixed and shot it on 11 the answer from pagi 11 wow yeah
10 yeah she didn’t like that shot too much they’re talking about a 12 I think between her and her coach because she’s like I’m down 11 a to go yep there she goes yeah she’s going for the 12 has been we to go in this third end there’s four arrows
Left to shot but she has two opportunities to use the 12 might as well give it a go she has a teeny tiny dot too in her lens I can see it so my guess is she’s probably just going to aim right at it Y and she could use this
Cuz that would give her a tie score this one it only keep her down within two just low just low and the hard part with that 12 is because it is risk reward it may have just cost her so much that like Lis can Cruise the Finish to win the match
Yeah now I noticed you had a little bit of a slip up on that first draw back there but you get did a good job refocusing had a 33 what’s going through your mind during your shot what are you focusing on trying to focus on that X but the
Nerves they’re there yeah for sure you’re doing a great job though and Catherine what made you decided to go for the 12 on that Arrow because I was losing I like the honesty all right well you made a good shot very brave for going it it makes it exciting when
People go for the 12 I like it and I’m sure I heard y’all I heard PJ earlier he said every 12 that y’all shoot he gets a day off so keep going for him one more time yeah we have Lis PJ’s coming to the booth after this match and he’s sitting next to
Me I’m not I’m not really sure that that’s the case maybe it is just a bottle of iced tea for everyone it’s hard to say have an inside joke sorry about that folks 9588 Lisa Zuber who at full draw right now in this Final End the competition and with seven
Points it’s a huge lead and the hard part now is to keep yourself focused and not and I know it goes through your mind like don’t mess this up don’t mess it up and it’s hard to stay focus so let’s see if she can handle it 8 seconds on the clock
7 5 four three two one there’s a zero that’s a zero this match has just flipped all the way around like 10 okay now it’s a three-point lead for Catherine a 10 I’ve got to say Lisa probably had that in her mind like I can’t mess this up
That means it’s hard to be confident and execute when you’re you’re in that that whole Avenue 11 and giv those opportunities you’ve got too capitalize yeah absolutely and it’s it’s hard because you feel bad for the competitor that had that issue but it’s sport it’s sport
It’s and of 10 it’s like the the guy covering the wide receiver in the NFL when he falls the wide receiver doesn’t stop he goes on and scores the touchdown and this is why you never give up y shoot your shot y 10 just good finish
Yeah so just like that the match flips and in this final end of this match to see who’s going to shoot up for the first qualifier looks like pagne goes even even by match two they’re still still there they are definitely still there yeah all right well you’re
Still look like you’re keeping it together up there well how are you feeling Lisa the nerves got to me for sure you definitely kept it composed on the those last two arrows good job finishing strong waiting for some final scores here all right Katherine pagne is your winner for this match and congrat
Congratulations to Lisa she will be going home with $350 in third [Applause] Place next up we have Connie Callaway from Knoxville Tennessee let’s give her a big [Applause] Hand she was the number one qualifier here this weekend she is also the ASA national champ IBO and Vegas champ My good luck good luck to You so it’s time for our final match of the women’s Master open category and Callaway coming up on on stage for this final match four ends three arrows a piece 18 M down range at a 40cm Target face the innermost ring counts as 11 there’s a 12 at play buried in the red
And it looks like Callaway is going to get us rolling and she has experience I mean she’s been a long time I’ve known her since I was a little kid mhm that one got away from her on the first one a little surprised but you know it has to do with those stage
Nerves so really for for the miscue for Callaway to just give away one point is actually pretty good Yeah no adjustments to Callaway site so you can still tell that it’s just nerves getting after after 47 years of shooting for con Callaway 11 the p in the groove just like that I think that’s part of being out here a little bit you’re as much as you say the
Neres away they do settle 11 Connie settling in and how many times the day have we seen that 9 10 11 walk oh yeah nine we have a tie ball game my hand folks just like that yeah yeah yeah that’s how you shoot 30 in two different ways
Yeah here’s Casey welcome to the Classic Stage Connie is this your first time here no how many times have you been on the Classic Stage um count in the last 20 years um probably three or four times Wow have you been to every classic there’s been I
Missed the co year and last year but otherwise you’ve been to everyone wow that’s a lot let’s give her a hand folks that’s [Applause] impressive tell me a little bit about your setup here what are you shooting well I have the new Matthews title I’m
Still getting used to it and I have the ham all the way rest uh shrew stabilizer and scope uh I use the bonning clutching uh bonding knot and Del arrows on a sooya side very nice nice and bright I like it all right after the first end we have Catherine with a 30
And Connie with a 30 going into the second end here’s our number one seed Rio and a little bit of a rough start settled in nicely yeah and just like we talked we’ve seen that like on two or three matches today come in 10 n or 9 10
11 and here is Connie Callaway and she’d mentioned that she has a shrewd stabilizer not stabilizers because you can see she’s not actually using a back bar or a side bar what however you want to say it yeah she’s called for weight sometimes 11 I have a friend who doesn’t
Have a lot of holding weight and to have less weight on the bow shoots better for him and so it’s one of those things that some people don’t think about That 10 11 liner I believe it’s a 10 yeah that one look just a smid in the 10 Ring cutting a little bit too much line to get contact with that 11 ring n here’s an opportunity to pounce for Callaway yep and she’s had experience she should be able to capitalize for
Well on this 10 Almost Got Away and they’ve got oh they took gastri off they’re calling it a 10 cuz it looked like AA 10 to me yeah 11 that’s exactly what py needed yeah to keep it within one so other than archery what do you like to do you have
Any hobbies do you work what goes on in a day other than shooting the bow so Monday through Friday I’m a special ed teacher and on Saturdays I work at archery at the Glenn and I coach their Joad team and I do lessons and help promote the sport that’s awesome so
What’s your local Club you want to give them a shout out uh Archie at the Glenn and Allen Town Pennsylvania very nice how about you Connie what local Club do you shoot board do you practice at home I shoot for better hunter in marille Tennessee out of his
Shop now trying to promote his new shop he’s built and what I do on my spare time I do tax dming oh was snowed in for eight days and I got a lot of work done there you go that’s great here’s a little recap of what pagne Catherine pagne has going on
So it’s 60 for pagne 61 for Callaway as we lead head into our third end of competition of four Catherine pulled that out with that 11 to help keep it close yeah you know this time maybe she doesn’t have to go for the 12 to try and keep it
Close women’s Master open he’s down to the final two Shooters going to Cony Callaway was your number one seed coming in here trying to be Crown Champion nine right open the door to to maybe tie it up or even take the lead 10 just caught so now we’re all tied up with two
Arrows to go a piece and this end jez 10 for pagne 2022 winner here trying to do it again 11 oh she’s capitalized on both of them that should give her a onepoint lead right now as it stands [Applause] 11 Connie as much as she’s competed she
Knows she needed that one really to just keep it right there yeah she did not like that one that one eight hi give him a round of applause no she had the opportunity 10 would have tied it 11 would have won it she well we
Have one more in left oh sorry one more in that’s right how do you prepare for something like this I don’t know that you can all right you know let just come out here and shoot your bow but I do know that these ladies have made me more nervous
Than the guys I beat four years ago there you go ni good looking forward to the rest of the year what other competitions do you have coming up well I got Vegas next week hopefully and then ASAS very nice well good luck for the rest of the
Season with one end left Catherine has 89 and Connie has 91 and of course it it it was it was just Master’s open a couple years ago and then they split to women’s Masters open so that’s what uh Callaway is talking about on that all the men she beat then yeah yeah but Catherine that last arrow that just really I mean it’s
A two point with three Ys left not that it can’t happen we have seen it today change but definitely puts you behind and with a chance for maybe get a 12 again yeah n oh there’s the door open and 11 would tie us up 11 oh yeah
10 she didn’t look like she like that one really well looks like it wasn’t settling down was moving Catherine has a chance here to take the lead after being down two to start 10 yeah we still tied up will put all the pressure on the Ping 10 11 for the win 10 to
Tie I think it’s a nine I think it’s a nine coming down to the last fews this is going to come down to a drugman call yeah nothing worse than oh there’s a good look at it Rio it’s so hard to tell what those Shadows but to me it looks
Like a oh wait I just saw a light as the beginning no but my whole goal was to just shoot with Connie con’s been like a huge hero to me for a long long time and I said coming into this I I just want to
Sho with you so I already won you know so cuz she’s awesome that’s [Applause] amazing it gets called to 10 okay waiting on an official ruling and it looks like we will have a shoot off folks all right so our judge will come out and explain the shoot off
Rules as to how this whole process works okay ladies congratulations thank you you’ve made my job harder we will be entering into a shoot off we will shoot a 1H hour shoot off first arrow is for score higher score wins if it is tied we will shoot a
Second arrow for score higher score wins if that is still tied we will shoot a third Arrow which will be measured closest to the center to determine the winner 12 ring is in play Connie you have the choice of shooting first or second I’ll go first you have chosen first you will shoot
Second I like this move by Callaway when you’re ready give me I’m ready Well yeah if you could go and put it in it puts ultimate pressure on your competitor there you go 11 that’s pretty good one that’s a pretty good one all right remember this first arrow is just for score score
Yeah we’re going to a second Arrow this is for the title of women’s Masters open ver and either one either one of them has the opportunity to shoot a 12 here the part of Connie going first and shooting it is great but it does leave the door for Catherine say I’m going to
Shoot a 12 and I’m going to beat you right here or do you say I’m going to carry this on to a third Arrow which is going to be closest to the center yeah and close to the center I always feel like it’s just like it’s it’s skill but luck it’s how it
Breaks right here we go second Arrow the shoot off the shoot up shoot off 10 I’ll say she didn’t look at so Katherine K with 11 right here 10 now we hit theorious closest to Center what a performance we’re seeing from these ladies women’s Masters open it’s a shoot
Up it’s for the title of champion Catherine pagne said that she’s already one just cuz she gets a shoot with Connie Callaway but we want 11 in the first Arrow to shoot off we got 10 in the second arrow and now it’s down to this closest arrow to the center and the
12’s not in there’s no opportunity for That y 11 that’s a good [Applause] one n she didn’t like it she didn’t like it and so how do you like [Applause] [Applause] thata these ladies put on a heck of a [Applause] [Applause] show tell us what’s it feel like I know she made me nervous okay but yeah I’m feeling great right now you both shot very good it was an exciting match went down to the last arrow on a three arrow shoot off what was going through your mind what were
You focusing on oh Lord I was just focused on just trying to stay calm and please B Hold Steady don’t move y’all did a great job let’s give them a big round of applause folks Catherine will be going home with second place and $550 and Connie will be going home with
A first place finish and $1,000 congratulations to you both all right we’re going to take a quick commercial break I apologize I know I teased some of you earlier and told you the bar was open I lied but it is open now all right so congratulations to Connie Callaway what a victory and
Champion in the women’s Masters open division we’ll take a break when we come back we’re going to bring the youth in it’s going to be some recurve action so don’t go Anywhere [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] yeah
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Wow ! All the shoot off were exciting ! In any Givin category! Edge of your seat exciting! Congrats on the event and participants! ❤🎯🤟👌👍♥️♥️