Alna has a new silver medal in town, but it’s not from Rio de Janiero. This one’s from Yarmouth, where Alna First Selectman David Abbott captured it in the Maine Senior Games.

The retired Bath Iron Works designer felt good about the second place finish in the archery competition. Held at Lakeside Archery, the event was part of the annual Senior Games the Southern Maine Agency on Aging puts on. He’d done well in the Senior Games before, taking silver, bronze and last year a fourth place ribbon. This time, he was four points off gold.

“I shot the way I should and if I do that, that’s all I care. I don’t care if I win or lose,” Abbott said.

He had the edge of youth this year. He turned 70, which bumped him up to the men’s 70- to 74-year-old group among those who competed with a compound bow with a release. Entrants shoot at Olympic-style, circular targets, he said.

However, he joined the age group along with a past national champion archer Abbott said he always loses to. They’re only about a month apart, Abbott said. “I can’t get away from him,” he said, smiling.

This year’s silver, as some of his past finishes, qualifies Abbott for nationals, but he doesn’t go to them, he said. “I don’t aspire to anything big. I just like shooting with the people I know.”

Earlier this summer, he took fourth in a state archery championship in Skowhegan. In that one, entrants shot at life-sized foam animal targets. He was the event’s defending champion; Abbott recently told his fellow selectmen he was about to shoot when a yellow jacket came near his ear, and he flinched.

Abbott also bow-hunts. Raised in Wiscasset, he was about 10 when his father gave him a lemonwood longbow. “I’ve had a bow ever since.”

Abbott and wife Linda have lived at their home on West Alna Road since they got married 49 years ago. He’s served several terms as selectman off and on, with his total service on the board now nearing the 20-year mark, he said.