Pictured from the left: Rose March, Carol Warters, Denise Mackie, Elizabeth Wallace, Chris Ford, Janet Lonslow, Margaret King, Margaret Broadbelt, Ann Sampy, Flick Rogers, Valerie Du'Kett, Janet Dye, Peggy Birch, Rosemary Roberts, Jean Dupree, Shirley Suffling.
After more than a year without competitive inter-club bowls, the Stamford Indoor Club restarts its Men's Lincolnshire League Division One programme with the visit of Boston B on Saturday, (1.10pm).
The pandemic has meant that for one season only the county will be divided into north and south sections in which Stamford's A and B teams of 16 players each, will contest matches against two teams from Boston and one each from Grantham, Spalding and Sleaford.
Stamford B, captained by Pete Linnell, will visit Boston A on Saturday with a team yet to be finalised.
Stamford A: Mike Ramsden, Mick Linnell, Tony Scarr, Roger Martin; Mick Humphreys, Dusty Miller, Jon Earl, Martyn Dolby; Mal Smith, Jay Travis-Jenner, Neil Wright, Adam Warrington; Richard Allam, Owen Aspinall, Chris Ballard, Bob Warters (Capt).
The Over 60 Men's team visit Boston on Thursday and the mixed team travel to Spalding on Sunday October 10.
Stamford IBC's scheduled friendly at Lincoln on Sunday has been cancelled. However, club president and team captain Ian Hall, is keen to introduce as many new bowlers as possible to represent the club and requests they check the club noticeboards regularly to put themselves forward for consideration.
They lost overall by 25 shots, though the team shared the new four rink format and will entertain Grantham on October 13 and Sleaford on November 3 in the hope of salvaging some pride as well as points.
With Dennis Henshaw having suffered a fall just hours before the match, the captain was unable to find a substitute in time, which left one rink of three - Bernie Crouch, making and impressive debut, Mick Linnell and Bob Warters - facing a two bowl handicap against a Boston rink of four players.
However, with a disciplined performance on an unfamiliar slick surface, they ran out 22-20 winners, thanks to a vital four count on the penultimate end.
Elsewhere Trevor Christie's rink, after trailing throughout, also picked up four shots on the last end to win by one.
Result
Lincs Over 60 League South Division: Boston B 93 (10 pts) Stamford 73 (4). Stamford names only: D Heffernan, R Clarke, N Crees, K Vinter lost 14-37; T Barwell, J Bourne, C Jones, T Christie won 19-18; R Blake, S Travis, D Miller, P Burt lost 18-23; B Crouch, M Linnell, B Warters won 22-20.