Men’s Denny team at Boston Indoor Bowls Club through to the next round
The Men’s team at Boston Indoor Bowls Club successfully overcame Horncastle in the latest round of the Denny Plate National Team Competition to progress through to the next stage in the New Year.
The final score was 84-73 with the home rinks led by Martin Tomlin and Chris Gill winning their games, 22-12 and 17-14. At Horncastle, Jonathan West’s rink ended with a draw, 23-23, after establishing a 20-3 lead early-on and Andrew Reeson‘s lost 22-24.
The latest two rounds of games in the Orchard Health Group First Division of the Evening League saw Invaders narrow the gap on the leaders, Holland Fen, to two points, with their next match seeing them meet head-to-head. Holland Fen were seriously challenged by Nomads, currently bottom, albeit winning 5-1 and gaining the shot aggregate by a mere 2 shots, after scores of 14-12 and 14-14, then lost a rink against Royal Mail, 16-18, winning the other 19-9.
Invaders beat Optimists 4-2, winning one rink 30-9, losing the other 22-27, then beat the in-form A40 team 6-0, recording wins of 22-9 and 16-13. A40’s other match was a 5-1 win against Royal Mail, 19-16 and 19-19, although Royal Mail looked to be in a good position to secure all the points with significant leads on both rinks with just 30 minutes to go.
Strollers moved into third place above A40 after two 6-0 wins against Dynamics, 29-9 and 22-16, and Breakaways, 20-15 and 16-10. Breakaways are fifth after beating Parthians 6-0, winning 20-11 and 22-16.
Optimists have risen to sixth following a 5-1 win against Nomads by 22-6 and 17-17. Golfers are up to seventh after taking all the points against Dynamics, winning 24-13 and 21-13.
IBC beat Golfers 4-2, winning 25-15 and losing the other rink 16-21. They took just 2 points from their game against Parthians by winning 13-10, losing the other rink to Ron Moore 15-19 and losing the shot aggregate by just one shot. IBC have contested a number of closely fought games this season, with one 3-3 draw, two games where they won the shot aggregate by one shot and three others where they lost the aggregate by one, two or three shots.
In Cammacks Second Division, Desperados have a four-point gap over Hotspurs after convincingly beating Kingfishers 31-10 and 23-14, while Hotspurs took 5 points against Burtons, winning 31-11 and drawing 19-19, and just 2 points from Amateurs for winning 17-15, the other rink losing 15-21.
Woodpeckers have risen to third following two 6-0 wins against Amateurs, by 20-10 and 13-12, and Phantoms, 17-6 and 19-16, meaning they’ve now scooped all the points from their last four matches.
Vectors slipped to fourth in spite of beating Central 25-3 and 20-12, while Burtons are fifth following a 6-0 win over Vikings, 24-11 and 20-14. Kingfishers stay in sixth after beating Shipmates 27-6 and 17-15.
Vikings and Shipmates won 4-2 against Phantoms and Central respectively, Vikings winning one rink 16-10, losing the other 20-22, and Shipmates winning 25-12, losing 12-18.