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From May 18th shirts will be available for collection from the clubhouse.
Collect on times published on May 19th, 20th, 21st, 23rd and 25th.
Tony Allock game on May 19th - team to wear new shirts.
From May 25th onwards all teams to wear new shirts.
13th May
Well, we all knew this fixture would be a tough game to play, as we are so used to our beautifully manicured green at West Wickham BC.
As always, this fixture is a challenge, and you really must work very hard to get your bowls up the green to get anyway near the jack
At the halfway point at nine ends we were 21-43 down, with only my rink leading 10-8. I thought at this stage we had a chance. How wrong I was!!
The 2nd session, after tea, was a bowling nightmare and we finally lost 41-92.
I really felt for my lead, Graham Melville, who struggled with nearly every delivery, but to his credit he soldiered on and did get a couple of great shots onto the jack. Unfortunately, in the end my rink the wheels did come off in the 2nd session and we lost 13-31.
However, we did have a superb fight back on Rink 5 by Tim Jordan, Alan Canham & Paul Rispoli (Skip), who were 4-10 down at the break, to came back to draw at 13-13 each. Well done guys.
A big thank you must go out to our hosts at Spring Park Shirley, who made us very welcome and treated us to lovely spread of cakes & biscuit with tea & coffee at the interval.
I look forward to our return fixture.
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