Worcestershire Short Mat Bowls Association

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  :

This match ended in defeat for the county by 4 points to 36. Out of the 16 individual games played Worcestershire won 2, scoring 143 shots to Herefordshire’s 268.

The morning session saw Jim Tingle winning his singles game. Having been in front for most of the game, his opponent drew level ( 9-9 )  in the 16th end. With two shots from end 14, Jim held out to win the game 11-10. There were no other successes during the morning session.

The afternoon session was also rather bleak with only one success. Richard Payne’s triples team almost pulled off a gallant win in their hard fought contest.  –  they won the last five ends of their game but could not quite overtake the opposition, and eventually lost 11-12.

Malcolm Saunders’ fours team led throughout their relatively high scoring game, narrowly winning by 15 shots to 14.

Summary of the day’ play below  :

Herefordshire have once again staged a “Macmillan” charity short mat bowls event. This took place at Leominster on Sunday 6th November.. The sum raised for the Macmillan |Charity was £1400.

Teams from across the region entered, including three teams from Worcestershire  – two from Churchill and Blakedown short mat club and separately one entered by Richard Payne. In total 32 teams competed, playing in the “Fours” discipline. Teams were divided into groups with each team playing four games  –  the overall result depending on games won, shot difference, and if necessary ends won.

Terry Clifford’s team from Churchill and Blakedown, ( including Jim Tingle / Alan Walters /  June Green) won all four of their games played ( 6-3— 7-5—6-4—8-3 ), with Richard Rose’s team also from Churchill and Blakedown ( including Belinda Gibbs / Jenny Gibbs / Malcolm Saunders ) winning three and losing one ( 13-4—8-5—11-6—4-6 ) , and Richard Payne’s team ( including Ann Hough / Derek Beddow / Avis Beddow ), winning two out of the four games played and losing two ( 10-5—6-3—1-13—4-10 ).

The above performances resulted in Terry’s team ( Blakedown 2 ), being placed 6th out of the 32 team entry with Richard Rose’s team ( Blakedown 1 ), 8th and Richard Payne’s team (Dick’s Devils) 17th.

The squad for the home fixture against Cheshire on 30th October is shown below :