Master archer Alan Hansen topped the scoreboard at last Sunday’s 3D Archery Tournament at the biathlon facility off Grey Mountain Road.

Sport co-ordinator Sarah Walz of the Yukon’s Aboriginal Sport Circle said 18 archers of all ages participated in the tournament.

The event involves completing two laps of the course made up of 20 life-size foam animal targets, with scoring calculated on how close to the centre of target on each animal the arrow strikes.

Walz said the best possible score for each lap was 220 points, or 440 for both.

Using a compound bow, Hansen scored 349 points, in the master category for archers between the ages of 50 and 60.

“There was pretty much a wide variety of different animals and dinosaurs,” she said.

In the bare bow category, Noah Dumaine racked up 187 points in the Under-9 class. Augustin Greetham hit for 156 points in U-12. In the U-14 division, Juliette Greetham hit for 243 points, Arthur Saint-Laurent scored 222 points and Amelia Wallace his for 63.

In the 20-to-50 senior class, Adam Brennan scored 291 points and Jon Belanger hit for 241.

Master archer Tom Rowles scored 209 points and Master 60 archer Rob Ingram scored 201 points.

The lone competitor in the recurve bow class, U-14 archer Wyatt Kapaniuk scored 148 points.

In the compound bow class, U-12 archer Emmett Kapaniuk scored 219 points and U-17 archer Sofija Jewell hit for 250 points.

Walz said the next major tournament will be held in September.

But the Aboriginal Sport Circle holds practice times throughout the summer on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 5:30 to 7:00, and Sunday’s from 10 a.m. to 12 noon.

Walz said anyone who thinks they might want to try their hand at archery is welcome.

“We have all the equipment up there and certainly encourage people to come up and try it once before they commit (to purchasing their own gear),” she said.