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The first leg of the 2023 Two Shire Trophy competition, played at Bromsgrove, resulted in a win for Gloucestershire by 26 points to 14  –  Worcestershire scored 148 shots to Gloucestershire’s 185. Although the county lost, there was a notable improvement in performance overall compared with previous matches this season, with the county securing five wins and two draws from the sixteen individual games played. The format for this first leg of the competition was four pairs and four triples , each playing 13 ends.

In the morning session, in the pairs games,  there were wins for Leah Bisseker and Richard Rose ( 13-7, and also Malcolm Saunders and June Green ( 16-3 ).  –  Dave Grove and Alan Walters drew their pairs game. 11-11. The fours teams lost their games. The overall results of the pairs teams secured a two point bonus for shot difference for the county.

In the afternoon session Leah and Richard won their pairs game 10-8, with Malcolm and June drawing ( 9-9 ) . In the triples June’s team won 16-6 and Leah’s team won 13-4.

Summary of the day’s play below  :

This away fixture ended in a heavy defeat for Worcestershire  –  1-39.  Worcestershire scored 123 shots with Cheshire scoring 262.  Leah Bisseker and Richard Rose  had a very close competition in their afternoon pairs game and came very close to winning in a low scoring match. Unfortunately they drew  9-9 .

Summary of the days play below :

The county squad for the away fixture against Cheshire on Sunday 8th January is shown below :

This home fixture ended with a heavy defeat for the county, who scored 5 points to Herefordshire’s 35. Worcestershire scored 123 shots with Herefordshire scoring 270.

The morning session saw the county losing all eight of the individual games played. The only slight glimmer  -”  very slight ”  – of what might have been a success was Malcolm Saunders’ fours team winning 6 ends of their 11 end game , and still losing 8-9.

In the afternoon Terry Clifford won his singles game. After the 11th end Terry was trailing 6-10, but with 6 shots from the last 4 ends he won his game 12-11.    Richard Rose and Belinda Gibbs had a closely fought contest in their pairs game. They won 8 ends of their 15 end game but trailed  at the finish by 11 shots to 15    Richard Payne’s triples team had a very successful game winning 9 of the 13 ends played. The opposition scored 5 shots off the 8th end, but apart from that one end Richard’s team prevailed, and  had a very convincing 18-8 win.   Avis Beddow’s fours team won 6 of the 11 ends played in this closely fought contest, and looked to be on course for a win.  The opposition scraped 2 shots off ends 10 and 11 to draw level 8-8.

Summary of the day’s play below  :