Young Guns bowled over in battle of league’s top pairs
THERE WAS an outstanding game in Halifax Bowling Club’s Indoor leagues when the two top teams in Division One of the Tuesday Evening Pairs faced each other.
Young Guns (Chloe Hirst, Frank Higgins) and Bowl You Over (Tom Robertshaw, Andrew Gee), four of the league’s top indoor bowlers played out an exceptional high standard of indoor bowling.
Young Guns raced into a 5-2 advantage before Bowl You Over pulled the score back to 5-4 by scoring two singles.
At the start of the last end, Hirst, a superb leader, bowled one of her woods for the shot bowl.
Gee, the skip for Bowl You Over, with his last bowl of the game sent a strong wood up the rink which knocked out Young Guns’ scoring bowl to leave his pairing holding a five.
Gee knew before he played his shot that his pairing had five ‘seconds’ but he was a bit fortunate in that his bowl went in-off another bowl before he knocked out Young Guns’ bowl out of the head.
With his final bowl Higgins, the skip for Young Guns, sent his bowl too wide and too far as Bowl You Over emerged 9-5 winners, a scoreline that did not reflect the closeness of the game.
In the Wednesday Evening Fours, three teams are level at the top of the table with 12 points each.
Clayton (Tony Riley, Mel Fielding, Graham Roberts, Hedley Kettlewell) are now in third position after they suffered another defeat, this time to the Up the Edge team of Chloe Hirst, Tom Gasson, Frank Higgins, and Scott Smith.
A superb team performance by the youngsters saw them out bowl Clayton and run out 19-7 winners.
The big game in Division Two of the Wednesday Fours league featured new team Beta Blockers (Alan Singleton, Eleanor Carney, Chris Lindsay, John Crewson) go up against Fair of Face (Mary Crabtree, Paul Green, Lynda Canning, Geoff Harrison).
It was a nip and tuck encounter but in the end, Beta Blockers ran out 15-13 winners.
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