Easter Tournament at bowls club is a great success
The Easter Tournament at Boston Indoor Bowls Club attracted 24 teams from Boston and across the county, including Stamford, Lincoln, Skegness, Grantham and Dunholme, to play in a three-wood triples competition.
Each team played three games, with points gained for each end won, plus four more for winning games.
The winners, repeating their success of last year, were Matt Wilkinson, Steve Wilkinson and Ron Moore, who won all three games, netting 31 points with a shot aggregate of +20.
Two closely fought wins was followed by a dominant 21-5 win in their last game that gave them a healthy shot aggregate overall.
Second place went to Steve Boycott, Rob Druce and Trevor Coulson, with 29 points and +16, the only other team on the day to win all of their games, recording 15-10, 14-4 and 10-9 victories.
In third place with two wins and a draw was the team from Grantham, Mark Eurich, Matt Lever and Jason Lewis, who drew their first game 9-9, then had two big wins 18-3 and 16-4, for 28 points and +27, the best shot aggregate on the day.
Generous sponsorship was provided by Boston Blinds and the club’s Bonus Ball.
Maximum points wins for Holland Fen and Invaders over Strollers and IBC in the penultimate round of games in the Orchard Health Group First Division confirmed their respective first and second places in the table, with champions-to-be Holland Fen winning 24-10 and 25-16, while Invaders had 24-13 and 16-6 victories.
With Strollers taking no points, Optimists replaced them in third place after their convincing 6-0 win over Breakaways, 29-14 and 24-14 by Andy Reeson and Matt Whyers.
A40 shared the points 3-3 with Dynamics to retain fifth place, Andy Scotney’s rink winning 22-9.
Anthony Tabor’s rink had a storming finish to win 24-11, after the score had been tied at 11-11 at 14 ends.
Nomads have struggled this season and will finish in 11th, avoiding relegation, but bowled as well as at any time during this campaign to beat an in-form Parthians team 6-0, Pino Venniri’s rink winning 26-13 and Mel Maddison’s 18-14.
In beating Golfers 4-2, relegated team Royal Mail also showed the sort of form largely missing this season, leading throughout on Keith Sharp’s rink to win 26-19, and losing 17-14 on the other rink after recovering from a slow start that had left them trailing 11-1 early on.
Desperados, this year’s champions in Cammacks Division Two, had a difficult week as Vikings beat them 6-0, John Millership winning 21-14 and John Stray 20-15.
Five points separate Burtons and Woodpeckers in third and fourth, both of them winning 6-0 last week, Burtons beating Vectors, 23-11 and 19-14, while Woodpeckers were victorious against Kingfishers, 24-8 and 14-13.
Amateurs beat Central 4-2, winning well on Trevor Coulson’s rink 33-5, losing the other 17-7, to leave them in fifth place.
Phantoms took four points against Shipmates winning 23-9 on Roy Stanley’s rink, enough to also ensure the extras. Jeff Ginsburgh won the other rink 21-9.