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There was lots of exciting action in the Tuesday Evening pairs at Halifax Bowling Club.46ers (Derek Finch, Stewart Wright) gained a “Hot Shots Award” in their game against Brookley (Elspeth Hartley, Rhonda Horner). A “Hot Shots Award” is where a team score the maximum number of shots at one end. On this occasion Finch, the lead player for 46ers played the jack into the back corner of the rink and the players had to play nearest the jack. Hartley, the lead player for Brookley sent all her four bowls off the end of the rink and Horner could not improve the situation as Wright bowled in another four bowls as 46ers scored an “8”. The final score was 18-2 to 46ers.

The top teams in Division 1 and Division 2 were in opposition. From Division 1 Young Guns (Chloe Hirst, Gareth Coates)  came from behind to beat leaders Golden Girls (Bea Grant, Sue Gormley). Golden Girls has an early advantage but superb play by Young Guns saw them run out 15-3 winners.

The game between leaders Valley Boys (Mick Skwarek, Keith Hanson) and B. & D. (Barbara Gee, David Armitage) was a much closer affair.

With Skwarek leading a maximum length jack Valley Boys held a 7-4 adavantage with two ends to play.  At the penultimate end Valley Boys were holding a “5”  with all their bowls within 6” of the jack. Armitage  bowled the perfect bowl to rest on Valley Boys bowls to score a single and make the score 7-5 going into the last end.

Gee changed the jack length and bowled a short to medium length. Her first bowl finished “jack high” 6” at the side of the jack. Skwarek was through with his four bowls. With the two skips left to play Armitage bowled another three shots into the head with Hanson short. With his 4th bowl Armitage knocked the nearest Valley Boys bowl out of the head for B. & D. to hold 5 shots. With his last bowl of the game Hanson was instructed to bowl “into the head” by his partner Skwarek ,but he sent his bowl slightly narrow and just missed the head for B. & D. to gain a 10-7 success.

Rastrick, a new team in the Autumn leagues have moved up into second place in the Wednesday Evening Fours. Their best performance of the season saw Geff Normanton, Dave Wood, Trevor Heley and Mick Carter gain a narrow 14-13 success against the experienced Clayton “A” (Tony Riley, Mel Fielding, Andy Tate, Paul Gill). In a “nip and tuck” encounter the sides were level with one end to play. During the game Rastrick had scored a “5” and Clayton had responded with a “4” but all the other ends were close. With Rastrick holding shot, Gill, the skip for Clayton played through but narrowly missed the jack as Rastrick ran out winners.

There is a session for anyone who would like to “Have a go” at Indoor Bowling on a Monday morning at 11.00 a.m. and 11.30 a.m. on a Thursday morning.

The Club will be open on a Saturday until 5.00p.m. and all day Sunday for rearranged games, practise and social bowling

The 2017 Spring season will commence on Tuesday January 3rd with the Tuesday Evening Pairs.

MONDAY AFTERNOON FOURS.

Thru’ the Gap 8  Sowerby 11

Dodgers 8  Hard Lines 12

Rabbits 17  A’s & B’s 8

Luddites 15 Rascals 5

Triers 19  Yorkies 2

K.9’s 10  G. 2 + A. 2 11

MONDAY EVENING FOURS.

Don’t Be Short 6  Ramblers 23

Madlams 11  Avengers 15

Spartans 16  Rockets 8

Amethyst 18  Phoenix 6

TUESDAY EVENING PAIRS.

DIVISION 1

Brigands 6 The Hollies 5

C. Dogs 6  Little & Large 10

SID 13  Jammy Duo 6

Young Guns 15  Golden Girls 3

DIVISION 2

B & D 8  Engineers 4

Double D 6 46ers 13

Pat & Pete 11  Double D 9

Brookley 2  46ers 18

Dad & Lad 10  Engineers 5

B & D. 10  Valley Boys 7

WEDNESDAY FOURS.

DIVISION 1

Illingworth 24  Foxes 5

Northern Lights 15  Foxes 7

Blue Moon 6  New Look 13

Illingworth 13  Black Cats 3

Ladies 8  Rabbits + 2   11

DIVISION 2

Vandals 20  Fair of Face 6

Yorkies 8  Vixens 13

Hard Liners 5  Triers 11

WEDNESDAY EVENING FOURS.

Arriva 16   Up the Edge 10

Saxons 15  Gapp 9

Clayton “A”  13  Rastrick 14

Light Relief 8  The Rockets 19

THURSDAY EVENING TRIPLES.

Arriva 22  Avengers 8

Light Relief 8  SID  28

Clayton 16 Little & Large12

Phoenix 18  Madlams 11

FRIDAY TRIPLES

Red Mist 24  Untouchables 10

Friends 13  Friday Girls 11

Kingsley 9  Surprisers 11

New Hotshots 11  Funny Girls 11

True Grit 14  Bob’s Kingdom 13

Rabbits 22  Knock Kelly Stars  10

G. 2 + 1  16  D.W.R.’s 13

FRIDAY EVENING PAIRS.

Clayton 19  Gary & Ann

Phoenix 8  T.N.T. 13

Clayton 31  H.L.I. 6

Clayton 17  The Gimpes 4

Phoenix 23  H.L.I. 4

Gary & Ann 6  Hilltoppers 16

T.N.T. 12  The Millers 13

SATURDAY MORNING PAIRS.

The Bro’s 1  Chatterbox 13

Wellhouse 7  Here’s Hoping 12