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Sets singles finalists Adam Warrington and John Holroyd.
Senior singles finalists Bill Orme & Martyn Dolby
Stamford IBA completed an exhausting club finals weekend featuring multi-disciplines from singles to mixed fours…from Aussie pairs to novice triples.
Stamford IBA completed an exhausting club finals weekend featuring multi-disciplines from singles to mixed fours…from Aussie pairs to novice triples.
For relieved competition organisers Tony and Judy Barwell, it was a culmination of more than three months they had dedicated to first drawing, then administering 15 different disciplines to ensure players kept on track and met their round-by-round deadlines. Both should be congratulated.
The gruelling timetable over two days often produced stunning bowling, worthy of the English championships being held simultaneously in Nottingham, while fresh faces emerged to challenge those who have been contesting the finals, seemingly for decades.
Among them were fathers and sons, Wayne & Owen Aspinall and Phil and Freddie Knapp.
The Aspinalls claimed both the men’s pairs ( against serial winners Martyn Dolby & Jon Earl) and the fours (with Ally McNaughton & Mike Anderson), securing a thrilling win on the last of 18 ends.
While the Knapps lost in the final of the ‘novice pairs’ to Mick & Karen Porter, they showed enough talent to prove they can be a force in the future. It was a similar story in the ‘novice triples’ where Alfie and Julie Hynes combined with Lynn Hulme to win an entertaining match against equally the dedicated Cath and Chris Smith and Tony Ahearne.
Elsewhere, Jeff Pitt regained the men’s singles beating Tony Barwell, then joined forces with him and Jim Pryor to take the triples. Elizabeth Wallace and Christine Ford were the outstanding individual winners of the weekend. Both featured in the ladies triples & fours and Wallace won the mixed pairs with Chris Ballard while Ford also shared the mixed triples with Adam Warrington & Stephen Harris.
Prizes and trophies will be awarded at the club’s presentation evening on April 26 (7pm).
From the left Chris Ford, Elizabeth Wallace, June Brennan, Margaret King, Shirley Suffling and Lyn Tuck.
Alfie Hynes in Action
Lynn Hulme in action
Club triples champions, from the left Tony Barwell, Jim Pryor and Jeff Pitt
From the left: Cath & Chris Smith, Tony Ahearne, Alfie Hynes, Lynn Hulme, Julie Hynes who contested the Novice Triples
Results
Saturday: 4-bowl men’s pairs: M Dolby/ J Earl lost to W & O Aspinall 25-9; 2b ladies fours: L Tuck, J Lonslow, M King, S Suffling lost to J Brennan, M Holroyd, E Wallace, C Ford 17-15; 4b Novice pairs : F & P Knapp lost to K & M Porter 26-9.
2b men’s fours : M Dolby, A Warrington, J Earl, S Harris lost to W Aspinall, A McNaughton M Anderson, O Aspinall 16-14; 4b Aussie pairs: P Smith & N Crees bt S Seed & J Holroyd 16-13; 4b men’s singles: J Pitt bt T Barwell 21-7; 4b ladies pairs: M Holroyd & C Ford lost to L Tuck & S Suffling 25-15.
Sunday: 3b Novice triples : J Hynes, L Hulme, A Hynes bt Catherine Smith, A Ahearne, Chris Smith 27-12; 4b men’s senior singles: B Orme lost to M Dolby 21-13; 3b ladies triples - L Tuck, M King, S Suffling lost to J Brennan, E Wallace, C Ford 25-4; 4b men’s sets singles - J Holroyd bt A Warrington 1-1(2-0 in tie break).
3b men’s triples: M Dolby, J Earl, S Law lost T Barwell, J Pryor, J Pitt 22-10; 4b mixed pairs: I Reading & N Crees lost to E Wallace & C Ballard 20-17; 2b mixed fours: J Needham, L & S Harris, A McNaughton bt J Bourne, M Holroyd, A & B Orme 21-5; 3b mixed triples: A Warrington C Ford, S Harris, bt J & M Holroyd, K Vinter 20-18; 4b ladies singles M Holroyd bt C Ford 22-7.
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National triumph for Pitt and Dolby.
National triumph for Pitt and Dolby.
Stamford bowlers Jeff Pitt and Martyn Dolby were members of the Lincolnshire seniors team that won the EIBA inter-county Over 60s title at Nottingham on Monday.
In a nail-biting finish, Lincolnshire beat Surrey 111-108 over six rinks and 18 ends.
Pitt featured at lead in the otherwise Boston rink of Andy Dunnington, Rod West and Paul Flatters which won 19-11. Dolby skipped a rink that included Richard Barnes and Trevor Bannister (Sleaford) and Lincoln’s Mick Thompson but lost 15-20
Commented Dolby:”It was great to add this title to my CV, though I had a poor game personally, having borrowed a set of bowls, stupidly allowing my own to run out of date.
“Lincs pulled away to lead by 20 shots but twice Surrey pulled back with Jeff’s rink always in charge and had an excellent win. However, though Trevor and I under-performed our rink hung on to only lose by five.”
After George Draper’s rink had won by 10, the match hinged on captain Danny Brown’s four who led by four with an end to play. Though holding shot, the Surrey skip was forced to fire to claim extra shots but missed.
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