Lisa and Adam earn North Cliff merit win
Hunmanby’s Lisa Watson and home bowler Adam Chilvers won the Drawn Pairs merit at North Cliff on Sunday.
Pam Watson (Hunmanby) was paired with Jo Leeman (Whitby), Ray Leeman (Whitby) with Billy Holdsworth (Hunmanby) and Sue Holdsworth (Hunmanby) with Alan Landers(NorthCliff),andCarmelFlynn(Eastfield)withJack Richardson (Hunmanby).
In the first round Watson and Leeman beat Kenny Wale (Whitby) and Pam’s husband andHunmanbyclubmateSteve Watson 21-19 while daughter Lisa Watson (Hunmanby) and Adam Chilvers (North Cliff ) beat the strong Whitby pairing of Geoff Watson and Josh Emmerson also 21-19.
Perhaps the outstanding performance in this round was Flynn & Richardson beating Holdsworth and Leeman 21-15 but there was another upset, although less surprising, when Ian Richardson (North Cliff ) and Steve Dover (Whitby) put Holdsworth and Landers out 21-12.
InthesecondroundStuart Thompson (Pontefract) and Emmo Emmerson (Whitby) beat homester Alan Lee and Tony Chambers (Castleford) 21-17 while Nigel Trotter (North Cliff ) and Tony Bland (Borough) went through 2118 against home duo Robert Child and Greg Long. Watson and Leeman had a 21-14 win against Boland and Harland and Watson and Chilvers beat MoChambers(Castleford)and
GeoffOldham(Hunmanby)2115tosetupamother-daughter clash in the quarter-finals.
In the bottom half of the draw Flynn and Richardson pulled off another good win beatinganotherhomepairing ofEdMcCormackandPatGermaine 21-11 while Dover and Richardson went down 21-12 to another North Cliff pairing, Tim Coyne and Tony Flynn.
Linda Armstrong (Castleford) and Scott Wardman (North Cliff ) had a fairly comfortable 21-14 win against David Muir (Eastfield) and Ronnie Noble (Borough) and, in the final game of the round, Danny Cooper (North Cliff ) and Joyce Harland (Whitby) beat yet another North Cliff pair,DaveMomentandJudith Andrews 21-15
In the first quarter-final Trotter&Blandcamethrough 21-18againstThompson&EmmersonbutonlyafterThompson & Emmerson had come backfrombeingsevenoreight shots down.
The Watson mother and daughter clash had an even more dramatic finish when, with the score at 20-20 and Watson and Leeman holding a winning position Lisa Watson fired and put the jack in the ditch to kill the end.
InthereplayedendWatson and Leeman again were lying game when Lisa struck again but this time to score the winning chalk.
In the bottom half of the draw, Flynn and Richardson fought well against Coyne and Flynn but went down 20-15 whileCooperandHarlandhad a21-11winoverArmstrongand Wardman.
In the first semi Watson and Chilvers had a 21-19 win
over Trotter and Bland while Coyne and Flynn beat Cooper and Harland 21-16 to set up a final featuring three home bowlers.
Watson & Chilvers struck
first to lead 8-4 after 2 ends only for Coyne & Flynn to take 4 of the next 6 ends to make it 10-10.Another5winningends inthenext7forCoyne&Flynn sawWatson&Chilverstrail1417.
A pair of 2s saw Watson & Chilvers regain the lead 18-17 onlyforCoyne&Flynntoscore another 2, but Watson & Chilvers scored 3 singles to win 21-19.