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A Win for Cambridge Park

There was a lot of fun and banter across the green yesterday afternoon as our London Welsh visitors and CP enjoyed the first mixed friendly match of the year. The home team scored a good win overall.

Top rink (by one shot to Dave Pitt’s team) were Steve G, Tricia, Norman & Corale.

An excellent meal followed prepared and served by Karen and sous chefs Sarah & Julian. Thank you. Thanks also to Jane who was kept on the go behind the bar all afternoon and to Ann who put together a themed raffle.

it was Luigi’s last role as London Welsh President and he handed the chain of office over the new President, Carole Atkinson. The LW’s first lady to hold the position. Congratulations!

speeches were held and LW’s immediate Past President handed out a list of fines for not wearing a L W blazer, to wearing a French top underneath a LW one to wearing Bowls England shorts to his opposing team’s skip because he couldn’t think of anything to fine her for. It was hilarious and all the proceeds went to charity.
Yet again, Luigi completed the day’s events by giving us a song. (Unfortunately the video isn’t uploading but it’s on our FB page.)

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“Bowls is a Drawing Game”

Well that was proved yesterday when both Jason Banks and Jamie Walker put on an amazing display of drawing bowls in the biggest singles match of 2023.

Bowl after bowl came to rest within inches of the jack. Absolutely wonderful.
Well done to Jamie and commiserations to Jason.
Should Jason have gone for another draw with his final bowl instead of the running shot? He only just missed with his second and third bowls. We shall never know the answer.
Now that the Championships are over, we can give our television and our eyes a bit of a rest and try to emanate those shots in our bowls games!

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Big Matches Today!

First of all it’s a big match for us as we take on London Welsh this afternoon.  A hard working day for Karen & Sarah as they prepare and serve our post match meal.

Lastly, it’s the Open Singles Championship from Potters this afternoon.  Unfortunately, they don’t seem to be showing the Potters Champion of Champions match on FB or YouTube.  However BBC will have live coverage of the singles.  Both Jason B and Jamie W played really well yesterday and deserved to be in the Final.  You wouldn’t have put money on either of them a fortnight ago, so well done to both for beating the odds!

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Wayne Willgress v Jamie Walker – What a Match!

I didn’t watch anything else last night bar the Wilgress v Walker match.  Wow, Wow, WOW!  What a match.! A Great quarter-final with amazing drawing shots and a selection of running, tactical bowls.  If you didn’t see it, watch on YouTube as it will be well worth it.  That’s the standard of bowls that we want to see and learn from.

Were the other quarters as fine?

Today’s semis are a mixture of the Open and Under 25s .  They should all be good matches.

In the National Ladies Under 25s (at Nottingham I think), Yaz Hassan from Egham takes on Rebecca Morley from St Neots in the quarter-final this afternoon.  We wish her the best of luck!

More locally, we’ve got an Aussie Pairs at the club this afternoon which should be a lot of fun.  It’ll certainly be a chance to put in some sparkling draw shots now that we’ve seen how to do it …. and consistently!

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Friday Again!

Good to see the sun during the day and it felt a bit warmer than the last couple of days.  Maybe it’s psychological!

Roll on spring!

Some twists and turns in yesterday’s World Bowls matches weren’t there?  Katherine Rednall goig down heavily in the first set, although neither she nor Cerianne had their best games.  Katherine upped the anti in the second set but the highlight (I thought) was the tie-break!  27 years old and winner of the Ladies Match Play 5 times.  WOW. Katherine is definitley in the right sport for her.

Darren Burnett was struggling against Paul Foster.  With the running bowls coming as early as the 5th end in the first set, it just looked like he couldn’t find the drawing weight so resorted to other shots, a bit liek Cerianne.

No one looked particularly comfortable out there.  Maybe they’re tired?  Anyway, four big quarter-finals to go on today.  Let’s hope the ties live up to the audience’s expectations!

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Sunday 22nd January – Mixed Friendly v London Welsh

We’re looking forward to playing against London Welsh Chairman, Carole Atkinson, and her band of merry men and women.

Laurence, Scott, Kevin K & Andy H

Ange, Brenda, George & Dave P

Tricia, Corale, Norman & Steve G

Tina, Mike, Lucy & Dawn

Match fee £10 in cash, please, so we can take out the meal fee to reimburse Karen & Sarah .

Will Luigi be serenading us after the match?  We hope so!

Thanks

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Saturday 21st January – Aussie Pairs

Thanks to everyone who signed up.  I think we’ll be doing 3 rounds of 5 ends starting at 2.00 pm

First round:

Dawn & Gym v Cliff & Peter J

Bob & Frances v Dan & Jacqui

Pauline R & Dave P v Bill R & Tony O’B

Shaf & Karen v Peter T & Ann H

With each player changing ends twice per end, get your step counters on and we should all be doing more than 3,000 steps!

For those not playing and would like some real flesh bowls’ entertainment, you’re very welcome to come down.

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Are you Bowled Out Yet?!

Just caught up with the Mixed Pairs Final plus Nick Brett v David Gourlay and Mark Dawes v Michael Stepney and feel very bowled out!

Some fabulous shots by all the players and all those that won today deserved it.  Well done to Stewart Anderson & Cerianne Glen on their Mixed Pairs win against last year’s winners.  Stewart did have a brilliant game but he couldn’t have done it without Cerianne.  14 years since she last held the Mixed Pairs Winners’ Trophy.  Incredible!

Today it’s another day of Singles with the Ladies’ Semi-FInals and Round 2 of the Men.  Who is your money on?