Mens and Womens Lawn Bowls in Oxon
The Ladies Walker Cup and John’s Trophy teams have been selected.
The Ladies Walker Cup (Double Rink) is on Sunday 27th May at Egham Bowls Club verses Sussex: Walker Cup 2012
The first John’s Trophy fixture will be on Saturday 9th June at South Oxford Bowls Club: Middlesex Team Sheet
The updated Middleton Cup Trial Team against Gloucestershire on Saturday 18th May at 2pm, can be found here: Middleton Cup Trial Updated Team Sheet
Teams from Banbury Central and Oxford City & County will represent Oxfordshire in the National Fours Championship at Leamington Spa in August.
Carole Galletly, Helen Young, Stella Amos and Caroline Campion and Myra Lewis, Donna Knight, Gail Gilkes and Katherine Hawes went through by winning their semi-finals at Thame.
Galletly, Young, Amos and Campion defeated a team from their own club of Pam Shepherd, Pauline Wilson, Gill Sharpe and Brenda Havard in the last four, with a final score of 21 – 11.
And Lewis, Knight, Gilkes and Hawes scored a victory of 24 – 7 over Oxford City & County’s Sue Mayo, Hazel Woodward, Jeanette Berry and Sue Lacey.
Quarter-finals: B Havard (Banbury Central) bt J Lovegrove (Oxford City & County) 23 – 8, C Campion (Banbury Central) bt P Clarke (Woodstock) 24 – 16, K Hawes (Oxford City & County) bt A Ives (Banbury Borough) 21 – 12, S Lacey (Oxford City & County) v S Crocker (Oxford Sports) 20 – 11.
On Tuesday 15th May President David Allin lead the Oxfordshire side in a friendly against Northamptonshire at Kislingbury BC. In a close game interrupted by all types of weather including hail, the weather won the final battle with the game curtailed at 18ends with Oxfordshire closing the deficit to 1 shot. A 100-game badge was awarded to County Secretary Steve Tolhurst and a colts badge to Oxford City and County President Paul Demczak.
Oxfordshire 97 shots Northamptonshire 98.
Rink scores:
A Hunt L Eltringham A Hall A Ley won 18-8.
B Bloomfield D Piper H Franklin R Claridge lost 9-22
M Clarke M Collison R Bull D Allin won 15-11
A Melville P Demczak J Lucas I Whelpton won 23-15
S Tolhurst L Lewis M Brain M Andrew lost 14-24
G Hooker B Allin J McGeough B Gilkes drew 18-18
In windy, cold and changeable weather, Bowls Oxon Ladies lost to Gloucs on Tuesday 15th May at Hanborough BC in a Middle England League match.
Score: 96 shots to 122.
League points Oxon 4, Gloucs 13.
Oxon skips first;
Caroline Campion 17, C Winter Alsop 13
Gail Gilkes 11, J Sheward 22
Carol Penson 16, M Hale 22
Jeanette Berry 23, J Scott 18
Katherine Hawes 15, J Howes 21
Sue Lacey 14, A White 26
The Oxfordshire team lost out to Northamptonshire in their opening Middleton Cup trial at Oxford City & County Bowls Club on Saturday 12th May.
Oxon 105 shots, Northants 117.
Oxon skips first:
Calvin Carpenter 18, Phil Reeve 15
Mark Sykes 15, Vernon Geary 17
Craig Nicoll 13, Jim McKee 19
Ian Snowdon 13, Neil Corbyn 27
Paul Sharman 35, Chris Bland 12
Mark Charlett 11, John Haines 27
The team play Gloucestershire at Barnwood BC, Gloucester on Saturday 19th May 2012 in a second trial match, and members of the squad will also be involved in the county’s first Home Counties League fixture against Surrey at Egham on 26th May.
The opening Middleton Cup game is against Hampshire at Oxford City & County BC on 2nd June, followed by games against Middlesex on 9th June, Sussex on 16th June and Kent on 23rd June at Bush Hill Park BC, Oxford C&C BC and Maidstone BC respectively.
The County Fours competition will be played to the final stages on Friday 18th May at Thame Bowls Club (10am & 2pm approx). The quarter final line up is as follows:
Pricilla Clarke (Woodstock) v Caroline Campion (Banbury Central)
Brenda Havard (Banbury Central) v Jan Lovegrove (Oxford City & County)
Angela Ives (Banbury Borough) v Katherine Hawes (Oxford City & County)
Sue Lacey (Oxford City & County) v Shirley Crocker (Oxford Sports)
The OBA Under 25s travelled to Thatcham BC on Sunday 13th May to play their opening game in the Junior Home Counties League against Berkshire.
Oxfordshire on the whole started brightly and Dan Wakeman and George Schwab’s fours opened up slight leads. Gary May’s rink was always involved in a tight battle early on while Shane Cooper had little fortune and dropped nine shots behind at ten ends. To their credit, he and his team dug in and closed to three shots at fourteen.
Overall at fifteen ends Oxon led by two shots but a string of ends
won by Berkshire gave them an advantage which, to their credit, they then pressed home.
Eventually Berkshire ran out 81-58 winners which equates to a 10-4 points win.
Oxon 81 shots, Berks 58.
Match points Oxon 4, Berks 10.
Oxon skips first:
Dan Wakeman 15, David Miles 14
Gary May 10, Mitch Cooper 25
George Schwab 21, BJ Byles 19
Shane Cooper 12, Matt Iremonger 21
To view more U25 news, please see the U25 report.
The Oxfordshire Balcomb Trophy Team has been selected for
Sunday 20th May 2012 at 10.00am verses Surrey CBA at Egham Bowling Club.
Team Sheet can be found here: Balcomb Team Sheet
Team Selected:
Keith Holloway
Richard Redford
Calvin Carpenter
Mark Sykes
AJ Docherty
Nathan Lewis
Paul Sharman
Howard Watts
Reserves (alphabetically) to attend please:
Mark Charlett, Shaun Claridge
Please contact Steve if you have any queries:
Mobile: 07868 435052; Home: 01491 598751; Email: stevegilkes@btinternet.com.
