First Triples win of new indoor bowls season
The first open drawn triples competition of the indoor season at Boston Indoor Bowls Club took place over one Saturday recently. With generous sponsorship from Bill and Margaret Daubney, twenty-two teams, each with three bowlers, took part with the participants varying in age from eight to ninety.
Each team played three matches, with points gained for the number of ends won and for winning the game. The team of David Allen, John Clark and David Richardson came out on top with three wins giving them 29 points and a shot aggregate of +14.
In second place was the team of Jose Isaacs, Phyllis Desmond and Pete Sharman, on 25 points and +8, having had two wins and one draw. Close behind in third place was Mike Rhodes, Scott Gray and Peter Hoyles on 24 points and +7, also having two wins and a draw.
The bowling was competitive, yet friendly, with eight teams having a good record on the day, winning two of their games and losing just one, while a ninth team had one win, one draw and one loss.
The latest round of games in the Orchard Health Group First Division of the Evening League saw the top two sides, Invaders and Holland Fen, face each other, Holland Fen coming away with all the points after winning 26-15 and 19-9.
After their somewhat indifferent starts to the season, IBC and A40 now find themselves in third and fourth spots after last week’s games. IBC beat Breakaways 6-0 with wins of 18-17 in a close contest and 23-9, then 6-0 against Royal Mail, in a previously postponed game, by 22-13 and 22-9.
A40 faced Nomads to take all the points. A competitive game on Sue Hoyles’s rink ended 15-12, while Jean Cammack’s rink was quickly 0-7 in arrears, but then controlled the scoring to run out 17-10 winners.
Parthians beat Dynamics 4-2, Ron Moore’s rink winning 20-12 after dominating the six ends from the eighth end by 15-2. Graham Wilkinson’s Dynamics rink was 12-5 ahead early on, then the scores were levelled at 12-12, before they finished strongly to win 19-13.
Lastly, Strollers re-found their form of last season with a 6-0 win over Royal Mail, by 25-16 and 20-14.
Optimists and Vikings remain top of Cammacks Division Two after both had 4-2 wins last week. Optimists faced Amateurs, winning one rink convincingly 33-8, Amateurs taking the other 14-12, holding on as Optimists finished well.
Claire Britchford skipped her Vikings rink to a good 21-11 win against Woodpeckers, also ensuring the extras for shot aggregate. Rob Exton’s Woodpeckers rink won the other rink 16-13 in a competitive game.
Desperados moved up two places into third after beating Burtons 6-0, winning Dean Harris’s rink 23-15 and Adam Hodgson’s 12-8 in a low scoring contest.
Kingfishers and Phantoms ended 3-3, Kingfishers winning one rink 21-10, Phantoms the other rink 22-11.
Shipmates took 4 points off Central with Steve Todd’s rink winning 18-8. David Boyne won the other rink 20-13 for Central.