Latest Bowls News, August 21, 2017

Published on: 21 Aug, 2017
Updated on: 21 Aug, 2017

Merrow Bowls Club report by David Raison

On Saturday, August 19, Woking Park visited Merrow. Due to some issues around numbers, Merrow loaned Woking one player and we were able to play two triples and one rinks matches.

Merrow playing Woking Park.

The day was bright and both sides were soon engaged in hard-fought matches. The resulting scores gave Merrow a win by two rinks to one and a points win of 55-39.

Commiserations to our losing rink, who came back strongly to lose by just two points. However, the team playing rinks; David, Debbie, Lorna and Colin had a tremendous win, with their score of 21-8.

Thanks to Nicky Hughes for laying on a lovely tea for us at the halfway mark.

On Sunday, August 20, Merrow travelled to Elstead for a match of three triples. Although cloudy, it was a warm day. However, we did experience some light rain during the last two ends.

Merrow playing away to Elstead.

Generally, Merrow played found it hard to read the Elstead green. However, things did improve as the match progressed. At the final reckoning, Elstead ran out winners two rinks to our one and on points, 56-40.

Special mention goes to the Merrow team of Ken, Lorna and Bob who prevented a whitewash with a fine win, 19-14.

At the interval, we enjoyed tea in the lovely barn. Thanks to the Elstead ladies for their hard work.

Before our return match with Liphook on Saturday, August 5, the heavens opened and it was touch and go as to whether the match would go ahead. Fortunately, the skies cleared and, although the green was damp, a good afternoon’s bowling was in prospect.

The rain coming down!

We played four rinks of triples, with an earlier than expected break for tea when the heavy rain returned after only six ends had been played. It was with some relief that the restart saw us playing under clearing skies.

The end result saw Liphook running out overall winners 53-79 and also winning on three rinks.