Rivals produce outstanding displays in winter league
FOUR PLAY (Dave Russell, Geoff Hughes, Derek Williamson, Ray Clegg) and Strollers (Brian Pickles, Keith Hartley, Peter Lomax, Glenda Hartley) turned in their best performances of the season in Division One of Halifax Bowling Club’s Winter League.
Four Play were up against title contenders Whirls Wizards (Lorraine Hirst, Shirley Dillingham, Martin Skuse, David Frost), who were level with Clayhouse at the top of the table after eight games played.
Clegg and Russell were the stars for Four Play as Russell beat Hirst 21-17 and Clegg, playing outstanding bowls, defeated Frost 21-8.
For Whirls Wizards, Dillingham beat Hughes 21-12 and Skuse defeated Williamson 2116. Four Play ran out 17-16 winners.
Strollers played third-frombottom Lindley (Richard Saunders, Paul Cooney, Mark Sykes, Peter Hopkinson).
Lomax and Hartley turned in most impressive performances as Lomax beat Sykes and Hartley defeated Hopkinson, both games by the minimum of margins, 21-20.
For Lindley, Cooney
beat
Keith Hartley 21-20 and Saunders narrowly defeated Pickles 21-19 as Lindley prevailed 2019. Their points scored in the game were 82-81 to Lindley in the closest game of the winter league.
Clayhouse (Paul Gill, Andy Peel, Ian Johnson, Hedley Kettlewell) increased their lead at the top of the table to eight points as they beat Mavericks (Peter Krenc, Steve Wandiak, Eric McGinnis, Steve Holmes) 24-14.
In Division Two, Simply the Best (Julie Best, Linda Gledhill, Lynn Carter, Mick Carter) and Fiery Jacks (Brian Needham, Gordon Bradford, Mick Walker, Ian Crossland) played out an epic game with Best and Gledhill the outstanding players.
Best beat Needham 21-1 and Gledhill triumphed 21-15 against the previously unbeaten Bradford.
Walker and Crossland were the winners for Fiery Jacks with wins over Lynn Carter and her husband Mick. The teams finished with 15 points each.
After this game the teams have played 10 matches and Fiery Jacks have accumulated 223 points to Simply the Bests’ 216.
The battle for third place is between Tykes and Unbelievabowl and in their latest games both teams registered wins by the maximum score line.
Tykes (Gary Robinson,
Michael Hutchinson, Patrick O’Connor, Robert Dean) beat Kingston (Steve Clifford, Roger Grey, Jack Shaw, Stuart Sykes) 24-8 and Unbelievabowl defeated Halifax Ladies 24-6.
Tykes are two points ahead with four games remaining. However both teams have still to play the top two and much will depend on whether they can earn valuable points in those games.
Results - Division One: Four Play 17 Whirls Wizards; Lindley 20 Strollers 19; Rabbits Revenge 20 Pellon 16; Mavericks 14 Clayhouse 24; Lindley 10 Clayhouse 20; Strollers 10 Whirls Wizards 19; Four Play 11 Pellon 19; Rabbits Revenge 14 Mavericks 18.
Division Two: Kingston 6 Simply the Best 24; Fiery Jacks 24 Blue Sox 4; Halifax Ladies 6 Tykes 24; Unbelievabowl 22 Halifax Extra 14; Unbelievabowl 24 Halifax Ladies 5; Halifax Extra 15 Blue Sox 20; Kingston 8 Tykes 24; Fiery Jacks 15 Simply the Best 15.