Successful bowls-cricket event at indoor bowls club
Boston Indoor Bowls Club hosted the first bowls-cricket event of the season on a recent Saturday evening of fun bowling, attracting a full complement of 48 people in 12 teams. Sponsored by 617 Recruitment, the winners were led by Jonathan West, with Rod Dunn and Gillian and Mick Williamson.
Each team played three games to choose the four teams to fight out the semi-finals. Starting each game with a score of 20-20, teams could win points for their side in the ‘batting’ phase by bowling to a target and then reduce their opponent’s score during the ‘bowling’ phase as they bowled around a static set of bowls to hit a set of stumps.
The team of Scott Whyers, Ted Woods, Trish Dunn and Steve Boycott won all their preliminary games giving them 6 points and a shot aggregate of +35. They faced Jonathan’s team, who were the best runners-up, in the first semi-final, losing 40-45.
Nathan Dunnington’s team, with Trevor Coulson, Mick Nundy and Sam Hines also qualified with 6 points to face and beat Graham Scarboro’s team of Alan Everitt, Howard Williams and Steve Wilkinson in the second semi-final.
The final was a close game, won 24-19 by Jonathan’s team. The third-fourth place playoff saw Scott’s team win by 50-24 over Graham’s team.
In the Evening League, the top three teams in the Orchard Health Group First Division, Holland Fen, Invaders and IBC, all had 6-0 wins in the last round of games to move ahead of the rest.
Royal Mail were unlucky to face Holland Fen with Keith Tointon, Chris Gill and, particularly, Martin Tomlin in the most devasting form to win 56-4, the biggest winning score for over three seasons. Royal Mail played well on the other rink and were still beaten 21-10.
Invaders beat Hotspurs 24-12, recovering from 7-12 down, and 24-13.
IBC, third, met A40, fourth, winning well on both rinks, 31-11 and 24-12.
The other matches were closely contested, the final points being up for grabs right up to the final ends. Parthians and Breakaways shared the points, 3-3. Mark Brown’s Breakaways won 13-12, the scores being close throughout. Parthians led 14-8 on Richard Keeling’s rink, but Breakaways fought back to be beaten 17-16 at the end.
Dynamics beat Nomads 4-2, taking the shot aggregate by two shots, Graham Wilkinson’s rink winning 16-12. Keith Wilson for Nomads snatched the other rink 16-14 having trailed 7-14 after an hour.
Optimists and Vikings both took 6-0 wins to stay at the top of Cammacks Division Two, Optimists beating Desperados 26-13 and 26-9, and Vikings winning against Central, with 29-9 and 16-13 scorelines.
Burtons were on good form to beat Phantoms 6-0 and move into third place with 27-6 and 26-8 wins for Chris Hill and Dave Bailey.
Against Amateurs, Kingfishers had their second 3-3 finish in two weeks, winning John Fell’s rink 18-12, losing the other to Mick Greet, 17-11.
Woodpeckers skip Roger Cook won 15-14 against Vectors for 2 points, Vectors taking the other 19-10.