The Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County hat-trick for dead-eye Dolby at blazing Bretton
Blackstones bowler Martyn Dolby will be chasing three national titles at the English Bowling Federation Championships at Skegness next month (August 21-28).
On a sizzling hot day at the City of Peterborough club at BrettonGateonSunday,hewonthe Northants mixed pairs with Jane Needham, and both the triples with Adam Warrington and John Earl, but missed out on a fourth title when beaten in the veterans singles by Peter Cox (Langtoft Pearl), whose wife Angela won the women’s secretaries singles.
Yaxley’s Robert Heath also reached four finals but had to be content with both the men’s pairs titles with Tony Belson.
Ketton pair Chris Ford and Shirley Suffling both won two out of three finals. Ford combined with husband Dick to
Shirley Suffling won two County Finals. win the senior mixed pairs, while Suffling collected the two-bowl singles before they joined forces to win the senior pairs.
Also doubling up on the day were Parkway pair Sophie Morton and James Harford, the former winning the pairs with Merisha McKernan and the four-bowl singles, while Harford claimed the Champion of Champions prize before skipping Paul Dalliday and Michelle Coleman to success in the mixed triples.
While Blackstones claimed both the men’s triples, Ketton lost in both the women’s equivalent, the two-bowl to Conservative trio Linda Toms, Tina Tinklin and Liz Hext, and the three-bowl to Stamford’s Helen Holroyd, Linda Starbuck and Moira Holroyd, who replaced Ann Holmes from the trio that won it in 2019.
It was compensation for Tinklin and Hext, who had earlier lost in the pairs, while luckless pair Kevin Vinter (Stamford) and Carol Grief (Crowland) lost two finals apiece.
Parkway and holders Blackstones meet at Langtoft Pearl tonight (Thursday, 6.30pm) in the final of the Dan Duffy Trophy, the Northants Bowling Federation’s county club championship.
In the Peterborough League, CoP City and Whittlesey Manor A will meet in the final of the Albert Rowlett Cup at East Community on September 3 after semi-finals wins over Crowland and Peterborough & District respectively.
There were quarter-final wins in the Mick Lewin Trophy, the Over 55 League KO Cup, for West Ward Lions, Blackstones, Whittlesey Manor A and CoP Molins.
Melvyn Beck won the Secretary’s Final.
The Bretton club have held the first of two charity open triples tournaments with the Peterborough Soup Kitchen the beneficiaries.