Bowls Club Denny team march into the next round

The Men’s Denny team at Boston Indoor Bowls Club played their second-round match in this National competition against Dunholme and beat them convincingly by 115 shots to 44.

Both home rinks had good wins, Matt Whyers by 32-8, after starting strongly to lead 13-1, and Martin Tomlin by 30-15, where the game was closely fought for 12 ends at which point the score was 14-13.

Alex Tomlin’s rink playing at Dunholme was completely in control, winning 35-5, while Nathan Dunnington’s rink trailed for much of the game before grabbing the win at the end, 18-16.

The next round will be against Lincoln.

The Ladies team in the Yetton Team competition faced Lincoln in their first round, always a tough prospect, and lost 84-44. 

They will now play in the Yetton Plate.

Louise Whyers skipped the only winning rink 17-14, having trailed 9-1 early on and only snatching victory on the last end.

The other rinks lost 18-10, 26-14 and 26-3.

Week nine of the Night League saw the completion of the first rotation of matches in Cammacks Division Two, leaving one point separating Royal Mail and Hotspurs at the top of the table, with Vikings a further seven points behind and Burtons another five points back.

Hotspurs met Vectors, beating them 4-2, Derek Smith’s rink winning 15-10.

Kevin Rockall built a 15-7 lead for Vectors on the other rink, then held on as Hotspurs rallied to leave the score 15-14.

Vikings took all the points against Woodpeckers with two good wins, 23-13 for Clare Britchford and 22-12 for John Millership.

Burtons beat Kingfishers 4-2, Chris Hill winning 19-11, with Roy Stanley taking the other rink 16-15 by scoring steadily throughout the game to win twice as many ends.

Amateurs moved up to sixth in the table after taking all the points off Shipmates.

Trevor Coulson’s rink was dominant throughout the game, winning 35-6.

Jeff Homewood built a 14-0 lead over the first 11 ends on the second rink, then had to hold on as Shipmates fought back bravely to leave the final score 14-12.

In the Orchard Health Group First Division, 6-0 wins for Holland Fen over Strollers and Invaders against Golfers left Holland Fen top of the table with Invaders and Strollers seven points behind, Invaders being ahead of Strollers by virtue of a better shot aggregate.

Holland Fen had wins of 29-13 and 24-6, while Invaders were equally dominant in winning 27-6 and 25-8

Breakaways beat IBC 4-2, winning 15-8 on one rink and losing the other 21-18, leaving them in fifth and fourth respectively.

Dynamics had their best result of the season when beating Nomads 6-0, which moved them off the bottom of the table.

Alan Batchelor’s rink started well to go 19-0 and won 25-6, while Graham Wilkinson’s won 18-11.

A40 against Parthians ended 4-2, with A40 just sneaking the shot aggregate, after winning 23-11 on one rink, losing the other 19-8.

Optimists beat Desperados 4-2, taking one rink 29-15 and losing 17-16 on the other.