SPALDING ladies extended their lead at the top of the Lincolnshire Ladies League (Southern Section) with a comfortable defeat of Stamford on their own surface by 23 shots. Only the rink skipped by Helen Holroyd - with Janet Dye, Carolyn Gray and Margaret Broadbelt - claimed points in which Spalding won four of the five rinks. Result (Stamford names only): Lincs Ladies (Trudy Bates) League A: Stamford 87 (2 pts) Splading 111 (14). M King, M Cave, S Suffling, C Ford lost 17-24; J Dye, C Gray, MBroadbelt, H Holroyd won 22-13; J Lonslow, T Handley, C Warters, P Mumford lost 11-26; M Andrews, V Shackleton, E Wallace, D Mackie lost 15-20; J Brennan, M Holden, M Holroyd, P Birch lost 22-28. FORD & CO WIN THROUGH LOCAL DERBY Several of the Stamford ladies team were in action again on Friday when they clashed in a national fours match. After Katie Bailey killed the last end when trailing by three shots against a rink skipped by clubmate Christine Ford but her quartet were able only to pick up two shots in the replayed 18th end, losing 21-22. Earlier Helen Holroyd, Jeanette Bourne, Louise Harris and Bailey turned a 9-2 deficit into a 12-9 lead with counts of five and three before Ford and her team - Christine Barnes, Margaret King and Sue Moir - picked up 13 shots in nine ends to lead 22-17 with three ends to play to set up an exciting finish. Ford now plays Chelsea Tomlin's Spalding rink. BW |
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