No luck in WCBL bid

LLANFAIRPWLL, relegated from the elite Welsh Counties’ Bowls League at the end of the 2014 season, have failed in their quest to be re-admitted for 2016.

In the traditional showdown between the new applicants and current basement side, Llanfairpwll lost to Wrexham’s Coed Talon 152-139 in the aggregates, after the games had been shared at 4-4.

The Anglesey villagers had been hopeful, after getting through the Counties’ initial qualifier by beating other applicants Colwyn Bay RBL 7-3 (Gwerydd Buckland 21-7).

Gwynedd Seniorenior Citizens’ Bowls League Division A final results: Beaumaris A 7 (Ken Thomas 21-6) Llanrwst 2, Bethesda A 3 (Dilwyn Owen 21-14) Benllech 6 (Gwyn Owen 21-9), Llanfairfechan A 6 Beaumaris B 3 (David P Williams 21-6), Criccieth 8 Llandudno A 1 and Conwy 6 Craig-y-Don A 3.

Bangor City’s Gwerydd Buckland and Beaumaris’s Stuart Thomas emerged from a bumper entry of 29 hopefuls as winners of Llanfairpwll Bowls Club’s annual late-season open pairs’ competition.

In the final, Buckland and Thomas beat the host club’s John Evans and Arwel Williams 21-12.

Beaumaris’s Keith Bailey reached the final, but lost 21-16 to threetimes’ winner Gareth Hughes of Min-y-Don in Llanfairpwll Bowls Club’s late-season open singles’ floodlit competition.

Beaumaris bowlers won the annual Walled Towns’ Shield for the second year, beating off challenges from Caernarfon, Conwy (Vardre) and Denbigh in the round-robin format for pairs.

The competition was staged over six hours at Beaumaris, where the local club’s duos were: captain Mike Ormond and Barry Harris, Brian Begley and Derek Stanley, Ken Thomas and Tim Williams.

Beaumaris recorded eight wins out of nine.