Category: NWF Competitions

Absentee captain Charles Harding passed the armband to Brian Medley (1) who along with Adrian Apps (2.5) and Alan Dix (6) hosted Crake Lakes in the NWF B Class league. The Crake team was Steve Skelton (4), John Henderson (4), Jim Alcock (6).

The weather wasn’t great and must have affected Bowdon’s play more than the club from the Lake District, who must be used to downpours! Bowdon took the first two matches before lunch, but Crake played well in the afternoon and took all three games, narrowly beating the Angles by 3 games to 2.

Individual game scores were as follows:

Bowdon	Result	Crake	Score
Brian & Alan	beat	John & Jim	26 – 4
Adrian	beat	Steve	26 – 9
Brian	lost to	Steve	16 – 26
Adrian	lost to	John	14 – 25
Alan	lost to	Jim	10 -17

Captain Cas Sinclair (3.5) took the Weekenders along the M56 to play Chester in the NWF Short League. The rest of the team was: Lorna Frost (3.5), Brian Medley (2P) and Sheila Dix (10); playing her first AC match for Bowdon! The Chester team was Andy Wilson-Chalon (3), Helen Brophy (4), Sarah Clements(6), Anthony Fletcher (10).

Chester stormed into a 3 to 1 lead after the first session and never looked back. The second session was halved, but Chester kept its lead by winning the third session again 3 to 1 and the final session was halved. Chester running out 10 to 6 winners.

The individual game scores are as follows:

	Anthony	Sarah	Helen	Andy
Lorna	13 – 14	10 – 14	14 – 10	14 – 9
Brian	14 – 5	8 -14	3 – 14	10 – 8
Sheila	11 -14	11 – 14	4 – 10	12 -11
Cas	11 -14	7 – 14	7 – 9	14 – 6

Charles Fraser took his Earls team across North Wales to play Llanfairfechan in NWF 14pt Handicap league. The rest of the team was Andrew Jenkins, John Bagnall and Garth Aspinall. The Llanfaifechan team was James Thomas, Dave Harding, Fred Williams and Jane Turner.

Llanfairfechan took an early lead in the two doubles matches and pressed home their advantage to take the victory by 8 games to 2. Well done Llanfairfechan and commiserations to the Earls.

You can view individual scores here.

Bowdon Weekdayers, captained by Alan Mayne, took the trip up to sunny Blackpool to play Fylde. The rest of the Weekdayers team is Kay Martin, Carol Steinberg and fresh from his successes in recent John Saxby and One- Ball Competitions Mike Dale.

Despite expectations of a sunny day beside the sea the opposite happened and following a tremendous down pour the match was abandoned with Fylde leading 5 games to 3. Giving Fylde the victory.

The Fylde team was Ian, Alison, Derek and Robert.

The scores for the games played were:

Bowdon	Result	Fylde	Score
Kay	lost to	Robert	8 – 14
Alan	beat	Derek	14 – 9
Mike	beat	Alison	14 – 4
Carol	lost to	Ian	9 – 14
Carol	lost to	Alison	9 – 14
Mike	beat	Ian	14 – 6
Alan	lost to	Robert	6 – 14
Kay	lost to	Derek	11 – 14

Captain David Holland (6) and his team of Adrian Apps (2), Mike Blackburn (16) and Andrew Jenkins (16) hosted Bury Caesars in this NWF 26 pt Handicap match. The Bury team was: Chris Alvey (7), Anne Alvey (9), Phil Hunter (10) and Duncan Meachin (18).

The Caesars took the lead early on in the day and continued all day running out winners by 7 games to 0. Well done Bury, commiserations Griffins.

Match scores as follows:

Bowdon	Result	Bury	Score
David & Andrew	lost to	Chris & Duncan	23 – 23
Adrian	lost to	Anne	13 – 16
Mike	lost to	Phil	16 – 20
Adrian	lost to	Chris	14 – 16
David	lost to	Anne	17 – 20
Andrew	lost to	Phil	13 – 26
Mike	lost to	Duncan	14 – 18

Bowdon Weekdayers hosted Llanfairfechan on Friday 29th August in the NWF Short league. The Weekdayers team was: Alan Mayne – Captain (4p), Ken Cooper (2p), Charles Harding (2p), Mike Dale (9). Llanfairfechan’s team was: James Thomas (1p), Sarah Andrew (6), Jane Turner (6) and Elaine Crook (10).

The first session was even handed, with both teams winning two matches. Bowdon came out strong for the next session winning all 4 games. Lunchtime had the Weekdayers in a fairly comfortable 6 – 2 lead, needing 4 out of the remains games to take the match. The afternoon sessions were shared and the Weekdayers ran out 10 – 6 winners.

In doing so, they won the NWF short league, many congratulations Weekdayers. Who now get a place in next years CqE Inter-Club short competition. Well done team.

Match scores were as follows:

	Sarah	James	Elaine	Jane
Mike	8 – 10	14 – 12	11 – 7	5 – 14
Charles	14 – 7	9 – 14	10 – 5	1 – 14
Ken	14 – 9	12 – 14	14 – 2	14 – 7
Alan	7 – 6	8 – 14	13 – 7	11 – 10

Captain David Holland (6) and his team of Mike Shelmerdine (6), David Beddy (9) and John Bagnall (16) travelled to Crake Valley, in the NWF 26pt Handicap League. The Crake team was John Henderson (4), Jim Allcock (6), Simon Robins (12) and Philip Helliwell (22).

Crake were just a bit too strong for the Griffins and ran out winners by 6 games to 1. The Griffins shining light was John Bagnall who won his game against Jim Allcock 26 – 0. Well done John.

The Griffins still have a chance of winning the league, they play Bury Peelers on 5th September. Good luck in that match Griffins.

The match details are as follows:

Bowdon	Result	Crake Valley	Score
Dave & Dave	lost to	Simon & Philip	16 – 17
Mike	lost to	John	10 – 26
John	beat	Jim	26 – 0
Dave H	lost to	John	19 – 26
Mike	lost to	Jim	20 – 26
Dave B	lost to	Simon	12 – 26
Jon	lost to	Philip	11 – 15

Captain Cas Sinclair and her Short team traveled across North Wales today to play Llanfairfechan in NWF Short League. The team was Cas, David Beddy, Charles Fraser and Phil Thompson.

The Llanfairfechan team was: James Thomas (1P), David Cartlidge (9), Richard Ibbotson (9) and Elaine Crooke (10).

In the first session the games were shared, and in the second session Llanfairfechan won 3 of the games. Lunch was a good time for a break for Bowdon and in the third session they won 3 games and in the final session they won all 4 games. The Weekenders winning the day 10 games to Llanfairfechans 6. Well done Weekenders.

	Elaine	Richard	David	James
Cas	4 – 11	12 – 7	10 – 14	9 – 11
David	14 – 2	13 – 11	13 – 8	14 – 4
Charles	14 – 8	1 – 14	11 – 6	14 – 0
Phil	13 – 11	14 – 6	10 – 14	9 – 14

Captain Nigel Matthews (0) and his team of Fred Owen (6) and Alan Dix (5) hosted Westmorland in the NWF GC Level Play League. Bowdon are currently joint first in the league and Westmorland are in last place. So as far as form is concerned a victory is expected, we’ll soon see!

The Westmorland team was: Roger Brooks (-2), John Armer (5) and Mark Hutchinson (12).

The first few games were shared but Bowdon put the pressure on Westmorland and went into lunch 5 – 4 up. Returning to the lawns refreshed after a butty and a drink, Bowdon won all the afternoon trios of matches 2 to 1 and ran out 11 – 7 winners. Well done team.

Individual scores as follows:

	Mark	Roger	John
Nigel	7 – 2 7 – 3	7 – 5 4 – 7	7 – 2 7 – 6
Alan	7 – 3 7 – 3	6 – 7 5 – 7	6 – 7 7 – 6
Fred	7 – 3 7 – 3	5 – 7 3 – 7	6 – 7 7 – 5

Captain Margaret Moss and her team of Mike Dale, Philip Thompson and Alison Acton took on Pendle in the NWF GC Handicap League. The Bounders were unbeaten so far this season, Pendle are in second place but have lost 2 games. So all to play for.

The Pendle team was: Mike Bradbury (5), Ian Longstaff (8), Sharon de Maine (8) and David Carpenter (9).

Margaret commented that Bowdon hosted a friendly but very competent team from Pendle on Monday 18^th. It was a cloudy day, with no problem of avoiding sunburn. Pendle won both the doubles games and did better in the morning singles. Bowdon revived after lunch, but too late to avoid the first loss this season. Losing by 12 to 6. Alison did well, as she has throughout the season. At present, Pendle and Bowdon are at the top of the handicap GC North table, with 8 points each.

Match scores as follows:

Doubles:

Bowdon	Result	Pendle	Score
Mike & Phil	lost to	Mike & Ian	6 – 7
Margaret & Alison	lost to	Sharon & David	3 – 7

Singles:

	Sharon	David	Mike	Ian
Mike	4 – 7	7 – 5	7 – 6	7 – 6
Philip	7 – 1	6 – 7	3 – 7	7 – 2
Margaret	6 – 7	6 – 7	7 – 4	2 – 7
Alison	7 – 3	5 – 7	7 – 3	3 – 7