Worcestershire Short Mat Bowls Association

The County were at home for this second leg fixture for the Two Shires Trophy, played at the Stourport civic Hall. The format for the day’s play was triples teams playing with 3 bowls over 10 ends. Following on from the success the County had at Gloucester in February, winning by 21 points to 19, the County started the day in fine form. The two morning sessions saw the County win 6 of the 8 individual games, giving the County 12 points plus 4 bonus points for a positive shot difference. In the afternoon sessions the County was not as successful but with wins by teams 1 and 2 in the first afternoon session the County gained another 4 points plus 2 bonus points for shot difference. This fixture ended with the County scoring 22 points, with Gloucestershire scoring 18. Putting the two legs of the competition together, Worcestershire scored 43 Points compared with 37 for Gloucestershire .  The Trophy returns to Worcestershire.

Summary of the day’s play is shown below.

This match against Gloucestershire, played at Kingsway Gloucester, was the first leg of the 2025 Two Shires Trophy competition. Worcestershire have tended to struggle when playing Gloucestershire but this year saw the county winning this leg by 21 points to 19. Worcestershire won 8 individual games played from the total of 16, drawing 1, and sharing the bonus points available, namely 4. The county scored 147 shots compared with 167 for their opponents. There were a number of successes for the county, particularly for teams 2 and 6, who won both of their two games played.

A summary of the day’s play is shown below :

The county hosted Droitwich Spa at Bromsgrove on the 2nd February in a friendly match. The format for this competition was eight triples teams playing in the two morning sessions with 2 bowls  for each bowler, and in the two afternoon sessions playing with 3 bowls-  games were 12 ends in length. Worcestershire won the competition winning 10 of the individual games and drawing 1. The county scored a total of 217 shots with Droitwich scoring 144 with Worcestershire running out winning by 21 points to 11.  Three of Worcestershire’s teams won both their games with Team 8 having a particularly god day  –  winning 19 of the their total of 24 ends played, scoring 44 shots compared with their opponents total of 7.

A summary of the day’s play is set out below :

The funeral of Kate Pashley will be held at the Wyre Forest Crematorium on Friday 31st May at 12.30pm, and afterwards at Stourport Bowling Club.  All bowlers welcome.

A report on this competition  which included  Churchill and Blakedown Short Mat Bowling Club, is shown on the Competitons page of this web site.