Denny Plate squad at Boston Indoor Bowls Club reach the semi-finals
The men’s Denny Plate squad at Boston Indoor Bowls Club won their quarter final last week, quite convincingly in the end, against Essex-based Falcon, to progress through to a semi-final where they’ll meet Darlington IBC at a neutral venue on March 7.
All four Boston rinks won their games and, when Falcon decided that ’enough was enough’, the aggregate score had grown to 78-52 in their favour.
Jonathan West’s rink, playing at Chelmsford, had the best margin of victory and were in control of the game from early on to win 22-11.The second away rink, skipped by Andy Reeson, led virtually throughout in a closer game to win 13-10.
At home, Matt Whyers’ rink struck off well to lead 9-1, but were pegged back by Falcon leaving the score at 12-13 after 14 ends, then finished well to win 24-14. Martin Tomlin’s rink was trailing at several points during the game but a score of four shots on the 17th end proved crucial, leading to a tight 19-17 win.
Back to the Evening League competition, now entering the third round of games, Holland Fen were again the only team in the top half of the Orchard Health Group First Division table to take maximum points as they beat IBC 16-12, following a close contest, and 24-11.
Second-placed Invaders dropped one point against Strollers, third, winning 5-1, but after 75 minutes the potential was there for them to lose more. Nathan Dunnington’s rink were 6-16 behind with Strollers in control, but they then found their form to run out winners 23-17. Strollers had an early 10-1 advantage on the other rink, but Invaders caught up to make it a close game, ending 18-18.
Optimists beat Dynamics 5-1 after good starts on both rinks put them in the box seat, although Dynamics finished strongly, the final scores being 21-15 and 18-18.
The game between the teams in fifth and sixth, A40 and Breakaways, ended 3-3, Andy Scotney skipping his A40 rink to win 24-15 after taking the last 7 ends 14-4, and Mike Rymer skipping his Breakaways rink to win 22-13.
Two bottom-of-the-table scraps ended in 6-0 wins for Parthians over Royal Mail, 17-13 and 15-11, and Nomads over Golfers, 20-6 and 17-10. As a result, Parthians moved up to eighth, Golfers slipped to tenth, with Nomads eleventh and Royal Mail bottom.
The two leaders in the Cammacks Division Two, Desperados and Hotspurs, both had 4-2 wins. Desperados faced in-form Amateurs, fresh from taking maximum points in their last four games, winning 18-11 on one rink and losing the other by one shot, 14-15.
Likewise, against Kingfishers, Hotspurs won 28-11 on one rink and lost the other 13-14.
Burtons moved into third place after taking 4 points in beating Shipmates 23-16, while losing the second rink 14-17.
Vectors have struggled in recent weeks and again lost all the points, this time to Phantoms, who won convincingly 29-10 and 22-8.
Vikings proved to be too strong for Central, winning 17-10 and 18-14.