Monthly Archives: May 2015
Ladies’ League Friday 1 May
Noble’s were top scorers in the C Tarlton Hodgson sponsored league on Friday 1 May when they visited Marown. Pat Withers and Lil Smith, to single figures, were the two winners for the home side while Joyce Ogden and Clare Cooper also won to single figures for the visitors. Purt le Moirrey could only muster two winners at Ballaugh, although both wins, by Chris Price and Chris Holland, were to single figures, as were three of the Ballaugh wins. There were three single figure wins at Peel, one to the home side and two to the visitors. There were also two games that went all the way, Kim Foy just losing out 20-21 to Joyce Kelly, balanced by Pat Robertson being edged out by Marie Ashurst to the same score. Port St Mary had a 6-3 win on games over South Ramsey with Alison Keggen winning to single figures as did Lyn Bolton for the opposition. The other two matches were closer affairs. Despite being a player short Onchan took six games against Port Erin to win by six points, the game of the match seeing Phil Dobson come through 21-20 against Eileen Thomas. It was a low scoring affair at Douglas with the home side winning two games to single figures and the visitors three. Although they won 6-3 on games Douglas claimed victory by just 5 points.
Isle of Man vs Shropshire
Isle of Man County Squad 2015
Team line-ups are available on the event page by clicking here
The Isle of Man’s top crown green bowlers will be able to test their skills against the best in the world as they take part in the Endsleigh Senior County Championships on Sunday May 3. A home fixture will be held at Peel Sunset Bowling Club from 12:30pm with an away game in Shropshire on the same day.
It would be fantastic to see a big crowd at Peel to support the Isle of Man Team on what will be historic and great afternoon of bowling.
Ahead of the Championships, Minister of Education and Children Tim Crookall MHK, whose department includes Manx Sport and Recreation, offered his congratulations to the organisers and his best wishes to all participants, especially those visiting from the UK.
“The hard working volunteers from the Isle of Man Crown Green Bowls Association, and specifically those who have helped deliver their long-established development plan, deserve credit for bringing their vision to life with these inaugural fixtures.
The Championships are considered to offer the highest level of Crown Green Bowls competition in the world. There are exciting times ahead for the sport, after some excellent work by the Isle of Man Association’s Development Officer Mark Kneen to secure the Island’s participation,”
Sylvia Cashen ladies’ doubles
On a bitterly cold afternoon when the weather threw everything at the players, wind, rain and hail interspersed with sunny periods, a field of 22 pairs gathered at Port St Mary on Wednesday 29 April for the Sylvia Cashen Charity ladies’ doubles.
The weather did not spoil the occasion and there were some close and exciting games with a high standard of bowling on display.
Semi-finals: Marie Ashurst and Kath Kinley 21, Philippa Taylor and Heather Horsburgh 10; Jayne Kneen and Val Macfarlane 21, Chris Price and Rita Callan 9
In the final Val and Jayne played a mark up the side of the green superbly giving their opponents little chance to get in, finally running out 21-10 winners.
President Ann Maddrell made the presentation, pointing out that Val had won the trophy on 13 previous occasions and Jayne on six. She thanked all those who had entered and helped to raise £300+ for the Anti-Cancer (Breast care unit)
Thanks also went to Ray for the condition of the green, to Gill for running the sheet and the ladies’ fo baking cakes and doing the refreshments.
Another week, another Leader
The lead in the Tower Insurance Over 60’s League has changed yet again, after a black week for previous leader Peel Sunset A, who entertained reigning champions Castletown A on Tuesday and ended up on the wrong end of a 6-2 defeat, this was followed by a similar score line on their trip to Port St Mary A to compound a poor week for the westerners, however I am certain that they will come back from this setback stronger than ever. This allowed Douglas A to take over the mantle as top dog, with a fine 5-3 win on their trip to Onchan A, however the curse at the top say them drop at point at home to an accomplished Nobles A team to allow North Ramsey A to head the table after beating Finch Hill at the Mooragh 7-1 and then beating Nobles B by 6-2 at Nobles, this game was a lot closer than the score line suggests with Nobles having one player scoring 20 and two on 19. North Ramsey have 12 points from 7 games one ahead of Douglas A and South Ramsey, who beat Nobles B 7-1 in the north before visiting Onchan B and getting a 5-3 victory. On 9 points come Port St Mary who have a game in hand after two victories this week. Also on 9 points but having played 7 games come previous leaders Peel Sunset A, and Castletown B who also had two good wins
Next up come defending Champs Castletown A who like Port St Mary have a game in hand and are on 8 points along with Nobles A, while on 7 points are three clubs that also all have a game in hand these being Marown A, Ballaugh A and Peel Sunset B. This means that once the teams that have played a match more have to sit out their game there could be 10 teams within 3 points of the top. And this is not including the two Onchan teams who are going through a bad spell at present but both have the players to climb up the league. The Preliminary round of the Ismay Cup was also played this week and which pitted a lot of the top clubs against each other. Ballaugh A had a good away win over Nobles A by 6-3 while the other three games saw wins for home teams, Douglas A defeating Onchan B 7-2, Onchan A beating Finch Hill 7-2 and Port St Mary had a home win over South Ramsey with a 6-3 score line. Finch Hill gained some revenge on the Thursday when they used home advantage to beat Onchan A 5-3 in the League. The top fixtures next week are on Tuesday when Peel A’s tough fixtures continue with Douglas A turning up in the west, while third place South Ramsey entertain Castletown A. On Thursday Douglas travel down south to Port St Mary A, while leaders North Ramsey A have their turn to sit a game out. And a resurgent Marown visit Castletown A. Could I remind all captains that the postage rate is going up on 5th May and could they please put an extra 2p stamp on the result cards. Many thanks and good bowling
Ladies’ over 60’s Tuesday 28 April
Marown were left wondering whether their journey was really necessary as they travelled south to face Port St Mary A who were in rampant form, winning all six games to record yet another maximum. Villa had a good result against Onchan B, winning 5 games with Muriel Cain winning to single figures, Wendy McDowell being the lone winner for the visitors. Ballaugh also won 5 games, with Voirrey Curphey being Port Erin’s only winner, although Sylvia Shelbourne almost gave them another game reaching 19 against Maureen Trustham. Castletown had two winners at Peel, Anne Oates and Barbara Young who came from behind to pip Rose Corfield 21-20.The five Douglas Players did well to end level on games with Onchan A, but even a big win to single figures by Jan Osborne was not enough to give them parity on points. Noble’s won 4 games at Mooragh Park with two players winning to single figures, as did Lilian Slinger for the home side, to give them a good points advantage while the closest match of the morning was at Breagle where the home side won four games but with Sandi Lowe and Roma Ware reaching 19 for the visitors Breagle ended with just four points advantage.