The Outdoor Winter League managed to hold some of its fixtures this week; the usual Round Robin held on Wednesday took place with a total of 23 members taking to the green. The players were split into two groups, one of doubles and one of triples. Dave Faragher and Margie Tasker took the win in the doubles by 2 points, keeping Derek Allen and Ken Karran to 26. The triples saw Brian Colquitt, Pauline Cowley and Tricia Bull take the win by 5 points against Dougie Allan, Sue McCourt and Gillian Jopson leaving them on 23.

Saturday, 12 February saw three games take to the green, Castletown Cannons, Seven Up and Louie’s Angels.

Seven Up took on the Angels and won three of the six games played, with Angels also winning three. The points gained took the overall match win for the Angels. The closest scoring win for Seven Up was that of Dougie Allan who held Margie Tasker to 19, whilst Matthew Keggen for the Angels likewise held Mark Kelly to 19.

Angels then took on the Cannons and took five out of the six wins. George Peach for the Cannons scored a win keeping Tricia Bull on 15. 

The Cannons then took on Seven Up and unfortunately were unable to secure a win, allowing Seven Up to achieve the maximum points available.

Louie’s Angels have been involved with the winter league since the start. One of three original teams along with Castletown Corkers and Seven Up, The Outdoor Winter League started in 2001-02.

Although there are still a few fixtures to play, this is the first time Louies Angels have won the league. Their previous best place was runners-up in 2011-12.

Seven Up 3 (102), Louie’s Angels 5 (113); Louie’s Angels 7 (120), Castletown Cannons 1 (73); Castletown Cannons 0 (67), Seven Up 8 (126).

The games on Sunday, 13 February were postponed and will be played on Sunday, 20 February.

Well the three storms that hit the island last week brought the Outdoor Winter League crown green bowls, sponsored by Pronto Plumbing to an abrupt halt. The usual Round Robin on Wednesday and the weekend fixtures as expected did not go ahead.

This weekends fixtures are to go ahead as planned and then the remaining fixtures will be as follows.

Saturday, 5 March: Mooragh Lakers v  WALOB, Parkers v Bits n Bobs, Bits n Bobs v Mooragh Lakers, WALOB v Parkers.

Sunday, 6 March: Nobles Nutters v Castletown Corkers, Castletown Corkers v Parkers, Parkers v Nobles Nutters.

Saturday, 12 March: Club Championship 12 noon start.

Sunday, 13 March: WALOB v Mooragh Lakers, Bits n Bobs v Parkers, Mooragh Lakers v Bits n Bobs, Parkers v WALOB.

Saturday, 19 March: Free Day

Sunday, 20 March: Presentations and Best v The Rest, which will feature the league winners, plus support players, against the merit winners from the remaining 10 teams.

Please don’t forget entries are being taken at Noble 3 Green for the Club Championship which is to be held on Saturday, 12 March.

The hardy members of the Outdoor Winter League Crown Green Bowls took to the green in what were rather cold weather extremes this week.

Wednesday, 2^nd February was the usual round robin where 26 members took part in what was a group of doubles and a group of triples. There was three points between first and second place in the doubles. Bryan Corner and Pat Rigby scoring 38 and Julian Rothera and Joy Stephens scoring 35.

The winners in the triples scored 30 leaving two groups in joint second on 25. The winners being Judith Moore, Terry Bates and Kevin Firth. The two groups in second place were Ken Karran, Sue McCourt and Lil Smith and Ivor Moore, Tricia Bull and Billy Blair.

Saturday, 5^th February saw three teams take to the green, Bits n Bobs, Seven Up and WALOB. The first match on the green was Bobs against Seven Up. The Bobs took one game from Seven up with Gillian Jopson holding Reg Temporaza to 16, and Sue McCourt almost made it a second win but unfortunately Derek Allen managed to leave Sue on 20.

The second match on the green was Seven Up against WALOB, and it was a full six games win for Seven Up giving them the maximum points available. WALOB had two games that were close, Kim Hargraves scoring 20 and Lyn Bolton scoring 19.

The final match of the session was WALOB against Bobs. Bobs managed to win two of the six games, the doubles pairing of Sue Collier and Sue McCourt, and Franz ten Donkelaar keeping WALOB from getting the maximum points available.

Bits n Bobs 1 (83), Seven Up 7 (121); Seven Up 8 (126), WALOB 0 (89); WALOB 6 (111), Bits n Bobs 2 (99).

Sunday, 6^th February saw four teams take to the green in again what was rather windy conditions. All But, Nobles Nutters, Outsiders and Castletown Corkers battled it out. All But took to the green playing the Nutters and took three wins and almost took a fourth when Lil Smith got to 20 points, but Sylvia Kennaugh for the Nutters took the win. The Nutters also took three wins the next closest scoring one being a win by Dave Naughton who kept Brian Aspen to 19. All But took the match victory on points.

Outsiders then took on the Corkers and took victory in five out of the six games. The loss they had was when Kevin Firth scored 19 points with Dave Faragher taking the win. Frank Watson had a really close game against Grace Gawne but held her to 20 to secure the win.

Nutters then took on the Outsiders, again Outsiders taking the win in five games. The only loss was the doubles, Tina Hampson and Mark Bradshaw kept Jenny Moore and Ben Dugdale to 16 points. Frank Watson again had a close game, this time keeping Dave Naughton to 19.

The final game was Corkers against All But, continuing what appeared to be a theme of five wins was All But, there only loss being Peter Kennaugh who unfortunately took on Dave Faragher who won his second game of the session. The only significantly close game was the doubles, where Brian Aspen and Celia Joughin held sisters Grace and Lily Gawne to 19.

All But 5 (118), Nobles Nutters 3 (103); Outsiders 7 (124), Castletown Corkers 1 (86); Nobles Nutters 1 (91), Outsiders 7 (121); Castletown Corkers 1 (78), All But 7 (114).

Entries are now being taken at Noble 3 Green for the Club Championship which is to be held on Saturday, 12 March.

The weather is being kind and yet again the crown green bowling outdoor winter league has had a full week of fixtures.

Wednesday, 26 January saw 25 members take to the green for a round robin. The players were drawn into two groups, one of doubles and the other triples.

Starting with the doubles which was won by a mere four points by Bryan Corner and Julian Rothera, leaving Lil Smith and Lawrence McMullen second with 26 points. The triples was won by Margie Tasker, Dougie Allen and Billy Blair scoring 30 points, whilst a joint second place went to Terry Bates, Peter Corlett and Ivor Moore on 24 points and Brian Colquitt, Willie Corkill and Tricia Bull scoring the same.

Saturday, 29 January saw four team battling it out on the green, Louie’s Angels, Bits n Bobs, WALOB and Castletown Cannons. Bits n Bobs took on Angels for the first match and luckily for Bobs Franz ten Donkelaar played as he was the only winner for them, as he beat Tricia Bull to 20. The only other close point scoring game was that of the doubles which saw Margie Tasker and Wayne Roberts holding Julian Rothera and Sue McCourt to 18.

At the same time WALOB were playing Cannons, George Peach being the only winner for the Castletown outfit, by keeping Steve Waters to 18 points, unfortunately Sue Kerruish couldn’t secure a second win for the Cannons  as Ken Karran took the game by one point. 

The second half saw the Angels take on WALOB, the Angels only losing one game when Sid Bolton took victory from Wayne Roberts.

The Bobs took on Cannons, and again were thankful for Franz playing as he and Billy Blair were the only wins, Franz beating Elaine McElroy and Billy holding Barbara Young to 20.

Bit n Bobs 1 (79), Louie’s Angels 7 (125); WALOB 7 (123), Castletown Cannons 1 (92); Louie’s Angels 7 (119), WALOB 1 (99); Castletown Cannons 6 (116), Bits N Bobs 2 (98).

Sunday, 30 January likewise saw four teams battle it out, All But, Mooragh Lakers, Outsiders and Parkers. All But took on Lakers and secured one win by Brian Aspden, who held Shannon McMullan to 19 points. There were two other close scoring games Jane Lothian was held to 20 points by Alison Kearsley and Lil Smith to 19 points by Walter McCarthy.

Outsiders took on Parkers and they won all but one game. The doubles Elaine Moore and Fiona Kennish could only stay on 20 points as Mike Thomas and Jo Smith took the win.

Lakers then played the Outsiders, and took wins in four of the six games. Tracy Moore held Elaine Moore to 19, Walter McCarthy also had a close game as he kept Tony Dugdale to 18 points.

Parkers then played All But and both teams secured three game wins each. There was only one game that was really close and that was won by Jo Smith of the Parkers, as she held Brian Aspden to 20. The win on chalks went to All But who scored 10 more points overall in the match.

All But 1 (99), Mooragh Lakers 7 (124); Outsiders 7 (125), Parkers 1 (97); Mooragh Lakers 6 (110), Outsiders 2 (109); Parkers 3 (100), All But 5 (110).

Another week of winter league crown green bowls sponsored by Pronto Plumbing has taken place.

Wednesday, 19 January saw the usual Round Robin take place with twenty one members taking to the green. There were seven sets of triples battling it out. The winners being David Clucas, Reg Temporaza and Paul Callister scoring 38 points, a close second was Margie Tasker, Dougie Allan and Billy Blair scoring 36 points.

Saturday, 22 January was a free day in the calendar, so a Round Robin was held. Fifteen members took to the green for a triples event on what was a sunny but chilly afternoon.

There was a ten point difference between the first and second place, and then a further five points for third. The winners being Bryan Corner, Julian Rothera and Tricia Bull, second place was Andy Kennish, Philippa Taylor and Margie Tasker and third place was Derek Allen, Alec Taylor and Pauline Cowley.

Sunday, 23 January saw three teams take to the green, Seven Up, Parkers and Mooragh Lakers.

Parkers were first on the green playing the Lakers, there were four points difference in the final match score although the Parkers only managed to win two games. The closest scoring games were won by the Lakers. The doubles pairing of Sue Gawne and Tracy Moore held Paul Callister and Mike Alexander to 18, whilst Walter McCarthy kept Paul Clinton to 20.

Seven Up then took on Parkers, unfortunately for Parkers, Seven Up took victory in all six games taking the match with maximum 126 points. The doubles pairing of Derek Allen and Alec Taylor had the closest fought game as they managed the win by 1 point against Jo Smith and Colin Spence.

The next game of the day was Lakers against Seven Up. The Lakers won two of the games with the doubles Shannon McMullan and Brian Kelly having a close game against Derek Allen and Alec Taylor holding them to 18. Dougie Allan from Seven Up also had a close game keeping Tracy Moore to 18 points.

Parkers 2 (109), Mooragh Lakers 6 (113); Seven Up 8 (126), Parkers 0 (93); Mooragh Lakers 2 (104), Seven Up 6 (115).

The Pronto Plumbing sponsored Outdoor Winter League, had another full week of fixtures, starting on Wednesday with the Round Robin. 28 members took to the green and were split into two groups playing doubles.  In the first group Gillian Jopson and Bryan Corner took the win by ten points beating Lil Smith and Mark Kelly to thirty four. The second group saw a tighter scoreline with Joy Stephens and Tricia Bull taking victory from Billy Blair and Reg Temporaza by three points.

Saturday, 15 January saw three teams take to the green on what was a sunny day. Bits n Bobs, WALOB and Seven Up battled it out.

The first game was Bobs taking on WALOB, with WALOB having the jack. The games were closer than expected by Bobs captain, and some great games were played. Bobs won two games and were really close in another three games, but WALOB were the aggregate victors by three points. Bobs winners were Pauline Cowley and Andy Morgan, whilst the WALOB winners were the doubles Sid Bolton and Toby Hart, Kim Hargraves, Lyn Bolton and Steve Waters. 

The second game on the green was WALOB against Seven Up, with Seven up having the jack. WALOB won four of the games. The closest scoring games being two won by Seven Up, Kevin Quirk held Tony Hart to 19 points and Andy Kennish kept Kim Hargraves also to 19.

The last game of the day was Seven Up against Bobs, and unfortunately Bobs were only successful in one game. That was the doubles Geoff Collier and Gill Morgan held Paula Firth and Mark Kelly to 11 points.

Bits n Bobs 2 (114), WALOB 6 (117); WALOB 6 (122), Seven Up 2 (104); Seven Up 7 (116), Bits n Bobs 1 (78).

Sunday, 16^th January had four teams take to the green, Castletown Cannons, Nobles Nutters, Louie’s Angels and Castletown Corkers.

Cannons took on the Nutters who had the jack first. The Cannons won four of the games with the closest win being by Sue Peach who kept Juan Qualtrough to 19. 

The Angels took on the Corkers and had victory in all games scoring the maximum 126.

Nutters next took on the Angels and also suffered at the hands of the league leaders who again took victory in all six games.

In a southern affair, Corkers took on Cannons, with the doubles for the Corkers taking their only game won in the match. Melody Marsh and Dave Faragher held Sue Peach and Pauline Moore to 18. The other close scoring game was won by Barbara Young who kept Sarah Morgan to 18. The Cannons only dropped three points in the whole match.

Castletown Cannons 6 (116), Nobles Nutters 2 (107); Louie’s Angels 8 (126), Castletown Corkers 0 (66); Nobles Nutters 0 (76), Louie’s Angels 8 (126); Castletown Corkers 1 (95), Castletown Cannons 7 (123).

Could I please advise members that there are no league fixtures this coming Saturday, 22 January, so  a Round Robin will be held, starting at 1 pm as usual.

The final session of 2021 was a Round Robin on the Wednesday December 29, where 11 hardy, determined players took to the green. The decision was to play two groups of singles. The winner of the yellow jack singles being Sue Gawne who scored 27 points and Margie Tasker second with 24. The winner of the black jack group was Tricia Bull scoring 21 and a close second place was Pat Rigby scoring 19.

It was third time lucky for the first games of the New Year, as they were abandoned in October and rained off in December, but they managed to play on Sunday, January 2 2022!

Four teams took the green – Mooragh Lakers, Nobles Nutters, Parkers and Castletown Corkers.

The Lakers took four of the wins leaving the Nutters to win two. The closest scoring game for the Lakers was won by the doubles Tracey Moore and Sue Gawne who held Tina Hampson and Juan Qualtrough to 18, whereas Dave Naughton for the Nutters held Shannon McMullan likewise to 18.

Parkers had victory in five games, whilst Dave Faragher took the only win for Corkers holding Mike Thomas to 17. There were a few close scoring games with Parkers taking the win. The doubles Mike Alexander and Jo Smith holding Judith Moore and Ivor Moore to 19 and Paul Clinton keeping Grace Gawne to 18.

The Nutters then took on Parkers, and again won two of the six games. The wins for the Nutters being the doubles Juan Qualtrough and Tina Hampson, who kept Paul Clinton and Paul Callister to 19, and Sylvia Kennaugh who held Mike Thomas to 17. The closest scoring game for the Parkers was for Neil Dunwell who kept Terry Bates to 17.

The final games saw the Lakers take the match by winning all six games against the Corkers. Three of the Corkers games managed to score double figures, the closest being that by Dave Faragher who scored 16 against Walter McCarthy.

Results: Mooragh Lakers 6 (118) Nobles Nutters 2 (100); Parkers 7 (122) Castletown Corkers 1 (93); Nobles Nutters 2 (103) Parkers 6 (120); Castletown Corkers 0 (67) Mooragh Lakers 8 (126).

The dates for postponed games will be published as soon as they are known.

Well the outdoor winter league crown green bowls had a full week of games, whether that be round robin or league fixtures, long may it continue.

There were 23 members who played in the round robin on Wednesday, January 5. A group of doubles and a group of triples took to the green. The doubles were won by a significant ten points by Doug Allan and Brian Colquitt who scored 36 points, trailing in second was Sue Kerruish and Lil Smith. The triples had a closer set of games and the winners by one point were Derek Allen, David Clucas and Kevin Firth, leaving in a very close second on 30 points were Paul Callister, Bryan Corner and Brian Aspen.

There were four teams that took to the green on Saturday, January 8. Castletown Corkers, Bits n Bobs, WALOB and Nobles Nutters.

The Corkers took on Bits n Bobs in the first game and although it was three games to each team the winning team on points was Bits n Bobs. Bobs only lost six points during the whole match. As this shows Bobs had some high scoring losing games, but all played in great spirits.

The Nutters took to the green playing WALOB, and they took two games from WALOB. Two of the closest scoring games were a win for each team, for the Nutters Sylvia Kennaugh took the game from Tony Hart by one point, whilst for WALOB Kim Hargraves kept Steve Hampson to 19.

Bobs took on the Nutters for the second match, and this time Bobs were not so lucky, only winning two of the six games. There were two particularly close games again a win for Sylvia Kennaugh of the Nutters keeping Pauline Cowley to 19, and likewise Gill Morgan for Bobs keeping Dave Naughton to 19. Another game that needs to be mentioned is the doubles which was won by two great woods by young Alex Hampson who was in partnership with his dad Steve. They left Bobs players Andy Morgan and Billy Blair on 18.

WALOB then took on the Corkers and success in every game was to WALOB although it was touch and go with two games, when both Lilly and Grace Gawne of the Corkers scored 20 points in their games against Tony Hart and Lyn Bolton respectively.

Bits n Bobs 5 (120) Castletown Corkers 3 (110); Nobles Nutters 2 (97) WALOB 6 (119); Bits n Bobs 2 (106) Nobles Nutters 6 (115); WALOB 8 (126) Castletown Corkers 0 (98).

Four teams also took to the green on Sunday, January 9, Mooragh Lakers, All But, Parkers and Outsiders.

The Lakers took on All But and won four of the games, the two winning games for All But were close scoring; the doubles Brian Colquitt and Celia Joughin took victory by two points from Victoria Johnson and Janet Monk, the second win was Bryan Corner who held Alison Kearsley to 20. 

Parkers took on Outsiders and it was three games to each team, but Outsiders took the win by three points. Elaine Moore and Kevin Firth had the closest win for Outsiders keeping Peter Karran and Mike Thomas to 19, while the closest win for the Parkers was by Neil Dunwell who held Jenny Moore to 19.

Outsiders then took on Lakers and it was an even number of games won by each team, the doubles again for Outsiders took victory this time by one point, with Elaine Moore and Steve Cook keeping Brian Kelly and Victoria Johnson to 20. 

All But then took on Parkers and managed to win two games, although none were particularly close scoring.

Mooragh Lakers 6 (123) All But 2 (100); Parkers 3 (107) Outsiders 5 (110); Outsiders 5 (111), Mooragh Lakers 3 (105); All But 2 (103) Parkers 6 (106).

Hello all, I hope you have had a great Christmas.

I am playing catch up with the reports, and I apologise for any delay.

On Sunday, December 12 a Round Robin was held as the green had no scheduled league fixtures. Six members attended and played singles, Steve Parker took first place with 25, Andy Kennish second with 23 and Jo Smith third with 22 points.

On Wednesday, December 15 again a Round Robin was held, and twenty members took to the green, each were drawn into doubles, playing in two groups, one with yellow jacks and the other with black jacks.

The winners of the black jacks Philippa Taylor and Sid McKnight took victory by 13 points, scoring 44 in total, leaving Alan Phair and Alec Taylor in second place on 31 points.

The winners of the yellow jacks did not have as big a point difference as they only won by one point, but it was a win all the same. Steve Parker and Gillian Jopson scored 33 points, leaving Paul Callister and Margie Tasker on 32.

The J&M Lee competition was held on Saturday, December 18 with a total of 22 members attending. All members were drawn into pairs and played a Round Robin format.

The black jacks group saw James Teare and Paul Callister take the win by four points, scoring 29 from Derek Allen and Jenny Moore who scored 25. The yellow jacks group saw the victory going to Tricia Bull and Andy Kennish who scored 36 leaving second place on 31 to Alec Taylor and Sue Gawne.

The final were the winners of each group playing five ends. The first two ends saw Tricia and Andy in the lead 3-0, but James and Paul came fighting back and went on to score eight points in the final three ends meaning they became the outright winners with the final score of 8-3.

The total amount raised on the day was £135.50 which will go to Peel RNLI.

Could I take this opportunity on behalf of the committee to thank all members for their contribution throughout the season, and to our sponsor Pronto Plumbing, and wish you a happy and healthy 2022.

Well this week’s winter bowls league games fell foul of the winter weather; also the usual Wednesday afternoon Round Robin was cancelled due to the seasonal wind and rain. 

Saturday’s league game fixtures, which were originally scheduled for October, were postponed again, however they have already been rearranged by the captains to be played on Sunday 2nd of January 2022. That will be the first games of the new year. 

Sunday’s Round Robin unfortunately didn’t have enough entries to take place. 

Don’t forget this weekend December 18th is the J&M Lee memorial drawn doubles competition. If you have missed the closing date for entries, please offer your support to the participants.

May I take this opportunity to wish you all a Merry Christmas and all the best for 2022.