Competition Finals (2)

This was an outstanding weekend for local bowls, with three competition finals taking place – the Oddfellows Rosebowl on Saturday 31st August and both the President’s Triples and the Secretary’s Pairs on Sunday 1st September. The League thanks Blackstones Bowls Club and Market Overton Bowls Clubs for hosting these events and helping to make the finals so memorable.

Oddfellows Rose Bowl Final: Saturday 31st August

The final of the Oddfellows Rosebowl competition was played at Blackstones Bowls Club. The match was between two Stamford Town teams – Crusaders and Dragons, with Crusaders being the eventual winners, beating Dragons by 68 – 36.

On rink 2, Ann Holmes, Sue Seed and skip David Hefferman (Dragons) faced the Crusaders team of Elizabeth Wallace, Jay Travis and skip Martin Bailey. Crusaders dominated the game from the start, being 7 -1 up after 5 ends then 15 – 4 up after 12 ends, with a dead end in the 8th end when the jack was pushed to the back of the green, leaving every bowl more than 6 feet away. Dragons did manage to pull back some points in the last 6 ends, but the final score was 24 – 9 to Crusaders.

Rink 3 saw the Dragons Bob Burton, Moira Holroyd and skip Dennis Starbuck playing Brian Tuplin, John Holroyd and Crusaders’ captain Jon Bailey. This was very much a game of two halves, with Dragons being stuck on 4 points for 8 ends. Dragons then began to fight back, limiting Crusaders’ chances to score, but a 3 in the penultimate end gave Crusaders victory with the score at 20 – 14.

Finally, on rink 4, Linda Starbuck, Gary Oliver and skip Len Marshall played against Graham Patrickson, Martin Hewitt and skip Kevin Vinter for Crusaders. Again, this was a game of two halves, with Crusaders storming ahead with a 5 in the first end. They held the opposition at bay for 5 ends, when they were 13 -1 up, but then Dragons staged a recovery, scoring steadily to bring the final score to 24 – 13 to Crusaders.

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