Worcestershire Short Mat Bowls Association

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.

This away fixture at Kingsway Gloucester was the second leg of the 2024  Two Shires Trophy competition. The first leg, played a month ago, saw Gloucestershire take a small two points lead – (  19-21 result ).  The second leg, which again consisted of  8 triples teams playing 11 ends each, saw Gloucestershire increase this lead substantially –  ( 7-33 result ). Gloucestershire retain the trophy.

Overall Worcestershire won 3 of the 16 individual triples games played and drew 1.  They scored 112 shots compared with 204 scored by Gloucestershire.

In the morning session Worcestershire won 2 games and drew 1. Terry Clifford’s team had the best result of the day winning 13-2 . Richard Rose’s team had a comfortable win 14-9 and June Green’s team drew 11-11.

There was one solitary win in the afternoon session – Jim tingle’s team won their match 13-9.

Although disappointed with the result, the Worcestershire squad had an enjoyable day, and it was pleasing to see our youngest bowler, at the age of twelve,  ( Tyler Shuck ) in action once again.  Tyler in action is shown below :

Summary of the day’s play shown below :

The County squad for the away fixture against Gloucestershire on 20th April is shown below. This is the second leg of the 2024 Two Shires Trophy competition, and will be played at Gloucestershire’s new home venue in the Kingsway Community Centre  –  GL2 2GS.