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The matches, second round clashes for the men's Denny Cup and women's Yetton Trophy, start at 10 am and feature two rinks of men and two rinks of women playing home and away simultaneously.

Scores are exchanged every five ends until each two-bowl rink has completed 21 ends. Players should wear greys and club shirts.

Denny Cup: Stamford men: home - Richard Allam, Dusty Miller, Jon Earl, Martyn Dolby; Mal Smith, Jay Travis-Jenner, Chris Ballard, Adam Warrington. Away - Paul Dalliday, Ally McNaughton, James Harford, Simon Law; Bob Warters, Mick Linnell, Tony Scarr, Roger Martin.

Yetton Trophy: Stamford women: home - Rosemary Roberts, Vanessa Shackleton, Ann Holmes, Pat Jones; Janet Benns, Peggy Birch, Stella Henshaw, Carol Warters; away - June Brennan, Moira Holroyd, Shirley Suffling, Christine Ford; Rose March, Margaret King, Elizabeth Wallace, Denise Mackie.

FOOTNOTE: Players travelling to Spalding are reminded that Tallington Rail Crossing is closed on Saturday and they should find an alternative route.

Stephen Harris, the Stamford IBC bowler, who won the national pairs with Graham Smith in October, when representing Spalding, has been selected for his first England senior trial at Northampton on December 4.

He will play lead in the prestigious rink of Martin Puckett, current world singles champion and Spalding team-mate Mark Dawes and Greg Harlow from the Potters resort, another player with world championship pedigree.

Stephen (24) has also been retained for the England Under 26 trials for which he made his England debut in 2019.

The Senior international series is due to take place in Belfast from March 17-19, 2022, the Under 26 internationals in conjunction with the British Isles series from February 19-20 at Frith IBC, Prestatyn, Wales.

Club Competitions Draw

A mystery bowler who entered the club's men's Singles and Open Over 65 singles, paid his entry fee but failed to register his name on the entry form, is being sought by Stamford Indoor Bowls Club, which announced its draws for its competitions this week.

He is listed, as the computerised draw identified, as 'Test User' and is due to play either John Pearson or Jay Travis- Jenner in the singles and Roger Graham in the seniors event. Competition secretary John Holroyd is confident he will reveal himself before the first rounds are played in January.

Most of the competitions draws are now posted on the club website and noticeboards but four events have had their entry deadlines extended in the hope that more entries will come forward to justify at least semi-finals will be played ahead of the finals on April 10-11.

Further entries are required for the Ladies rinks ( two more teams needed), men's rinks (1), ladies triples (1) and mixed rinks (2).

Men's singles ( first round by Jan 30, second round by Feb 20): C Ballard or N Crees v R Allam, J Suffling or A Warrington v P Linnell or J Holroyd, T W Smith v S Harris or B Warters, S Minor or O Aspinall v A McNaughton, M Ramsden v M Dolby or B Orme, J Pearson or J Travis-Jenner v Test User, D Edwards v R Graham, K Gentry v T Barwell.

Ladies singles (quarter-final by March 13): M King or C Ford v M Holroyd, S Gentry or L Harris v S Suffling or C Warters.

Open Over 65 singles (First round by Jan 30): K Gentry or J Suffling v AW Smith, T Barwell v I Hall, B Warters v J Pearson or S Gentry, R Graham or Test User v B Orme, J Bourne v M Mann, M Ramsden v P Linnell, I Reay or M Dolby v C Ford, K Vinter v R Blake or D King.

Further details at: Club Competition Draw

Lincolnshire Pairs Win

With a 17-14 defeat of Owen Aspinall and Chris Ballard, Martyn Dolby and Jon Earl reached the preliminary round of the Lincs IBA pairs. Their win included a seven-count when 3-10 adrift. They will host a pair from Boston before the end of the year.

Tony Barwell has qualified for the preliminary round of the Over 60 singles and will travel to Spalding to play Martin Simpson.

Tony Barwell will play Arran Bee (Nottingham) in the first round of the EIBA Singles Circuit at Newark on Saturday.