Luddites master Rascals as top Fours teams do battle
THE MONDAY Afternoon Fours in Halifax Bowling Club’s Autumn leagues saw an action packed afternoon with the top teams in opposition.
Rascals (Jean Wade, Ken Sharkey, Derek Squires, David Laycock) were given a masterclass in leading by Peter Richardson, the lead player for Luddites (Richardson, Stuart Gill, David Illingworth, Ray Wolsey).
Luddites turned a 7-5 deficit into a 11-7 advantage, before Rascals fought back with a “3” to make the score 11-10 moving into the final end. A Superb bowl by Gill, the number two player for Luddites proved “shot” as after a measure Luddites claimed a single to win the game by 12 shots to 10.
K.9’s ( Marian Quick, Eric Grant, Stuart Baker, Barry Wright) and Rabbits (Con McGinley, Derek Finch, Newman Hawley, Jack Orley) played out a nip and tuck game with K.9’s taking the game by 14 shots to 9.
The top game of the day featured Well Bowled (Brian Winrow, Gary Plane, Steve Dunwell, Nick Blackburn) and G. 2 + A. 2 (Barbara Gee, Jimmy Bainbridge, Alan Fleming, David Gee).
G. 2 + A. 2 raced into an 8-0 lead with excellent lead play by Barbara Gee and well supported by her teammates.
Well Bowled fought back with their” skip “Blackburn in impressive form as he continually saved shots for his team and bowled in for winners.
Well Bowled pulled the score line back to 12-10 at the start of the last end.
Winrow’s “jack high” leads were beaten by Barbara Gee who ran the jack for “shot”. Bainbridge bowled in another shot for G. 2 + A. 2 to hold a “2”, with only Blackburn to play.
With his first bowl he bowled in for “shot” before David Gee, theskipforG.2+A.2playedan impressive “jack high” bowl for “shot”.
Playing to Winrow’s instructions Blackburn sent up his final bowl which ran the jack onto his teams back bowls to hold a “2”.
Gee on his backhand had excellent land but just ran through for Well Bowled to score a draw at 12 shots each, thanks to the actions of Blackburn.
There were unexpected results in Division 1 of the Wednesday Fours when two of the top teams, Illingworth (Marian Quick Ken Sharkey, Stuart Baker, David laycock) and Northern Lights (Les Holmes, Steve Rothwell, John Beverley) both registered defeats.
The club are now taking entries for the John Dunn Shield, a singles knockout competition, and the Sheila Holbrook Pairs, a knockout pairs competition. Both competitions are played over an hour.
The entry sheets are in the Indoor Bowling hall.
The Autumn League Indoor Bowling Prize Presentation will be held on Friday, December 20 at 7.30pm.
The 2020 Spring season will commence on Thursday, December 2 with the Thursday Evening Triples.
The winter bowling will also commence on that day.
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