Lindfield have named their team for this Saturday's National Double Fours regional finals at Cranleigh BC (Surrey):
The rinks are:
Adam Harding, Graeme Geddie, Keith Holman, Ian Watson.
Frank Palmer, Roger Green, Tom Palmer, Terry Hughes.
Travelling reserve: Peter Colbourne.
The game starts at 10am at Cranleigh (postcode GU6 7LG), please come along and support the team.
Lindfield's 36-match unbeaten run in the mens' Border League almost came to an abrupt halt this evening at Newdigate. On a wet and heavy
green the Lindfield players struggled to compile decent heads, and found that the luck was often going in the opposition's favour. Ian Watson's
rink was the first to finish, dropping 3 on the last end to record a 21-22 loss. Terry Hughes's frustrated rink finished second, losing 14-19
and being indebted to some accurate drawing shots from an in-form Peter Treagus. This left Tom Palmer's rink the unenviable task of needing to
win by at least 7 shots in order to secure an overall victory. Tom's men held 4 on their last end, when the opposing skip fired and killed the end.
With the head firmly against them, Chris Reynolds drew a front toucher, and Tom managed to cut into the head to rest the second wood, while the opposing
skip fired and missed by the narrowest of margins with both his bowls, handing victory to Tom's rink by 7 shots, and an overall 6-4 win (54-53 on shots)
to Lindfield. Phew!
There was good news for Sue Willmott and Dave Richardson, who beat Mike and Amy Truran of St Francis 19-7, in the National Mixed Pairs. Sue and Dave are now through
to the last 16 in England, and face England international Natalie Melmore at Worthing in August.
This weekend witnessed some 'very nearly!' moments for two Lindfield teams. Adam Harding, Dave Richardson and Ian Watson lost to Keith Laker's trio in the final of the Preston Open triples, having previously racked up a massive shot difference during the week. Meanwhile on the slick Chichester green Alan Price, Bill Colbourne and Bryan Mills had their first taste of an 'open' tournament day, skipped by an on-song Peter Colbourne they played four games, winning two, drawing one, and losing one on the last wood, thereby narrowly missing out on a shot at the prize money.
The John Spriggs and Mid-Sussex League selections for next week's games are now on the website - click here to view them.
Ladies captain Chris Sugarhood staged a hugely successful captain's day on Saturday with over £1300 being raised for breast Cancer.
Sue Willmott and Carol Watson qualified for the final stages of the national pairs and now travel to Lemington for a shot at the title.
In the men's national double fours Lindfield came through a tight tussle away at Popes Mead winning by a mere 2 shots in a game that finished in the fading
light, the final end not being completed until 21:30 on Sunday.
There was heartbreak in the men's county triples semi final as Adam Harding, Keith Holman and Ian Watson lost out to the last bowl of the match against
Hove & Kingsway with the game tied at 19-19 playing the last end. In the county double fours Lindfield lost their quarter final match against Hurstpierpoint
by six shots with the deserving winners now playing White Rock for a place in the final.
Ian Watson’s hopes of success in the county singles ended with a 21-17 defeat to Hove & Kingsway’s Scott Edwards in the semi final and despite a great run in
the national champion of champions event Ian lost the last qualifying game before the latter stages are held at Worthing's Beech House Park during the national
championships fortnight.
Dave Richardson proved he's at his most dangerous when there's prize money at stake when he collected both the singles and pairs title at last week's
Eastbourne Open. It's the second time Dave has won the singles event at Eastbourne.
Dave "Caveman" Richardson has once again won the Eastbourne Open, beating Charles Wright 21-12 in the singles final to claim a £400 cash prize. Dave teamed up with Charles to win the pairs title as well, adding an extra £150 to his winnings, and he only missed out on a shot at the triples title due to a technicality with a substitute player. Dave is aiming to make it a double, when he enters the Bexhill Open starting on August 2nd.
Lindfield "B" scraped through to the regional finals (7th round) by 2 shots against Popes Mead last night. With the scores level after 10 ends, Lindfield broke away thanks to some big scores from Ian Watson's rink, but Popes fought back and took the lead in the closing ends. Geddie, Harding, Holman and Watson won 25-18, and finished 3 ends ahead of Terry Hughes's rink. Palmer, Green, Palmer and Hughes played on in failing light, picking up a crucial 4 on the 18th end, and despite a barrage of accurate driving shots from Mark Jones and Mick Law, the Lindfield rink clung on to lose narrowly, 17-22, handing Lindfield an overall 42-40 win.
Chris Sugarhood's Ladies' Captain's Day on Saturday 17th July was an outstanding success, with over £1,300 raised for a breast cancer charity. Well done to Chris and her team of helpers!
A bad week for Lindfield continued on Tuesday evening as Ian Watson lost his county singles semi-final 21-18 to Hove & Kingsway's Scott Edwards, in a fine
display of drawing on the Lewes bowling green.
Lindfield went on to lose the quarter-final of the Abergavenny double-fours last night to Hurstpierpoint. The away rink of Adam Harding, Graeme Geddie,
Keith Holman and Ian Watson lost by 1 shot, while the home rink of Tom Palmer, Roger Green, Terry Hughes and Dave Richardson lost by 4 shots to a loaded rink
featuring Dave Welsh, Dave Hesketh and Jim Morley.
There was one bit of good news as Lindfield's "Nicholas Soames" mixed Australian pairs team won 8-2 at home to Haywards Heath.
Lindfield Mens' captain Alan Nicholas, with the help of a small army of willing volunteers, hosted another successful captain's day on
Saturday in the blistering sunshine. The day began at 09:30 with the first set of round robin matches and concluded with a five end final between teams
from Lindfield and Buxted Park, with the Lindfield squad of Jim Harvie, John Matthews, Peter Elford and Roger Green coming out on top.
But the real winners on the day were Alan's chosen charity, "Help for Heroes" with over £1000 raised due to the generosity of all the
players.
Lindfield ladies are enjoying a good run in the Nellie Mercer with recent wins against Southwater and Hurstpierpoint and in the men's county competitions
Ian Watson qualified for the singles semi final with a 21-11 win his quarter final. In the men's county fours Adam Harding, Graeme Geddie, Keith Holman and Ian
Watson edged a tense semi final against White Rock, winning 20-18 and will now play Petworth in the final on August 8 at Popes Mead. Mick O'Donnell's run in
the unbadged singles came to end with a 21-12 quarter final defeat at Worthing and in the county triples Ivan Orchin, Graeme Geddie and Tom Palmer saw an
early lead disappear against Tarring Priory and bowed out at the quarter final stage.
Lindfield's county triples semi-finalists Adam Harding, Keith Holman and Ian Watson suffered an agonising one-shot defeat at Popes Mead last night. Holding
match lie their dreams went up in smoke as former England star Dave Hubbard secured the shot bowl, handing victory to his team by the narrowest of margins.
It was a reverse of their fours quarter-final, which saw Watson inflict the same last-bowl defeat over Hubbard's team two weeks ago.
Lindfield now have the following teams left in county and national competitions:
Lindfield's semi-final rink of Adam Harding, Graeme Geddie, Keith Holman and Ian Watson held their nerve and rode their luck to beat Steve Jeapes's White Rock quartet 20-18 at Lindfield on Friday evening. Lindfield went into the last end just 1 shot up, and Steve Jeapes played the last wood of the match looking to just move the jack back a foot for a winning count of 3. Incredibly although he made contact with the jack, it was at just the wrong angle, and it sprang sideways onto a Lindfield bowl, handing Watson's men a place in the final against Petworth on August 8th.
Sue Willmott took Amy Truran all the way in the ladies' county Champion of Cchampions competition, holding a match lie at 20-19 but Amy played a firing shot
with her last bowl and trailed the jack to snatch the win from Sue's grasp. In the Mid-Sussex Champion of Champions though fate was on Sue's side as a
determined display earned a 21-18 win against Newick's Janet Birch.
In the over 55 pairs Shirley Nelson and Sue lost out to Victoria Park, Eastbourne 22-18 in a game that wasn't decided until the final two ends.
In the mens' National Double Fours Lindfield overcame a strong challenge from Tarring Priory with an overall 10 shot victory and in the county double fours
there was a win against Buxted thanks largely to a mammoth 33-5 win by the home rink of Chris Reynolds, Roger Green, Terry Hughes and Dave Richardson.
Adam Harding and Keith Holman qualified for the county pairs semi-final following a 20-11 win against White Rock and in the county fours quarter final
there was a nail biting 19-18 win against Hove and Kingsway for Adam, Keith, Graeme Geddie and Ian Watson with Ian drawing the shot with the final bowl of
the game.
Ivan Orchin, Graeme Geddie and Tom Palmer defeated Uckfield to claim a county triple quarter final date against Tarring Priory and will be joined in the
quarters by team mates Adam Harding, Keith Holman and Ian Watson who won away at Uckfield in the fifth round. Ian Watson continued his run in the men's
county champion of champion singles with a 21-12 win over Peacehaven's Steve Ireland and now plays in the quarter finals at Worthing.
There were mixed fortunes for Lindield's triples at Popes Mead last night, in the county quarter-finals. Ivan Orchin, Graeme Geddie and Tom Palmer lost their match, but Adam Harding, Keith Holman and Ian Watson won 19-9 to take their place against Dave Hubbard's trio in the semi-finals next week.
Lindfield "B" have won through to the sixth round (Area final) of the National Double Fours, after beating Tarring Priory by 10 shots yesterday morning at Tarring. There was a solid win for Frank Palmer, Tom Palmer, Roger Green and Terry Hughes, who all bowled well to win by 8 shots. Adam Harding, Graeme Geddie, Keith Holman and Ian Watson sneaked through with a 2-shot win on their rink, and Lindfield now face Popes Mead in the next round.
County Fours quarter-final night at Lindfield yesterday evening produced some great games of bowls. There was success for the home team of Adam Harding, Graeme Geddie, Keith Holman and Ian Watson, who won 19-18 against Dave Hubbard's Hove & Kingsway quartet, with Ian drawing the shot with the last wood of the match. Petworth, White Rock and Paul Gandey's Hove & Kingsway team also qualified for the semi-finals, to be held at Lindfield next Friday 9th July.
Tunbridge Wells have cancelled Sunday's friendly, as they are unable to raise a team.
Lindfield won through to the quarter-finals of the Abergavenny Double-Fours last night against Buxted Park. Ian Watson's team had a narrow 4-shot win at
Buxted, while Dave Richardson's rink won 33-5 at home.
Lindfield enjoyed an especially successful week in the men's county competitions which began with Ian Watson beating Newhaven's Aaron Sexton 21-18 to reach the singles quarter finals. It's the fourth consecutive year the two players have met at Lindfield and Ian maintained his 100% record with some consistent drawing throughout.
Mick O'Donnell continued his march in the unbadged singles with a commanding 21-8 victory away at Newhaven against seasoned campaigner Ken Davis. Despite his home advantage Ken couldn't keep pace with Mick, who has yet to be taken the distance this season in the competition. He now travels to Worthing Pavilion on July 7 to make his county quarter final debut.
There was an all Lindfield clash in the triples with Peter Gacsall, Graeme Geddie and Tom Palmer edging a tight match 13-12 against Chris Reynolds, Roger
Green and Terry Hughes with the victors now playing Uckfield with a quarter final place at stake for the winners. In the pairs Adam Harding and Keith Holman
came through a hard fought game at West Hoathly against Terry Tiechan and Brian Goatman 17-11 to book a quarter final spot against Stuart Holland and his father
tonight (July 1st) at Seaford.
Adam and Keith then teamed up with Graeme Geddie and Ian Watson and collected a 'hot shot' on the way to beating West Hoathly in the county fours and now
face a tough looking quarter final match against last year's national indoor champion Dave Hubbard and his squad from Hove & Kingsway.
Peter Colbourne won his third round tie in the Lonsdale singles with a Lazarus style comeback against Peter Acott from the Loose bowls club, near Maidstone. Staring defeat in the face at 6-19 down Peter collected a count of 4 to go in to double figures and fought all the way to a 21-20 win and left
his beleaguered opponent wondering where it all went wrong.
In the second round of the Edward Roland Frank Palmer, John Foster, Ken Eldred and Derek Heather went out by a single shot, 19-20 at Newhaven. The ladies
made it through the second round of the Gladys Roland with a 25-10 win against Peacehaven and Shirley Nelson and Sue Willmott continued their run in the
over 55 pairs with victory over Rottingdean, 27-10. Lindfield secured all 10 points in the Mid Sussex league away at Uckfield and also pipped Adastra in the
John Spriggs. The men continued their good start in the Border league with victory over Newdigate.
Both Lindfield's county triples won through to the quarter-finals last night against Uckfield. Ivan Orchin, Graeme Geddie and Tom Palmer beat Mel Woodhams' trio 20-18 having seen their
commanding 16-4 lead be wiped out through some concentrated draw bowling from the men in the blue shirts. At Uckfield Adam Harding, Keith Holman and Ian Watson won
20-7 against Phil Soper's trio.
Lindfield men have the following teams still going in the county competitions:
Good news for Ian Watson and Mick O'Donnell as they have both reached the quarter-finals of a county competition, both at the expense of Newhaven bowlers. On Tuesday Ian took on England under-25 star Aaron Sexton in the county singles, and the game could have gone either way when Ian fired with his last bowl, disrupted a good head, and took 3 shots to win 21-18. Mick enjoyed a more comfortable 21-8 win against Newhaven's Ken Davis, who never came to terms with his own green.
Lindfield men survived a close scare against Brighton this evening, in the second round of the County Double-Fours. With Brighton fielding
a weakened team, their away rink of former Sussex star Geoff Maskell, Jim Catchpole, captain Peter Leigh and veteran Peter Fowle got off to a flying start
to take a 12-1 lead after 9 ends. Lindfield's home rink of Chris Reynolds, Roger Green, Terry Hughes and Dave Richardson gradually fought back,
and eventually finished up losing by just 4 shots, 16-20. With the result hinging on the Brighton game, Ian Watson's quartet picked up a crucial 6 to
return a 21-15 win against Dave Hutson's rink, handing the overall result to Lindfield by just 2 shots.
The "B" team for the 5th round of the Mens' National Double Fours away to Tarring Priory has been selected - click here to view it.
In the National Mixed Pairs Sue Willmott and Dave Richardson are still going strong thanks to a 25-5 win away at Lewes, and Sue continued her good start to
the season by reaching the ladies county pairs semi-final with Carol Watson, and then earning a good victory against Betty Turk in the county Champion of
Champion singles.
In the ladies' double rink Lindfield lost out to West Hoathly by one shot and they also suffered defeat at the hands of Hailsham in the county Top Club
competition. Carol Watson won the singles easily enough 21-4 but there were losses in the pairs, triples and fours.
Mick O'Donnell is one game away from a first county quarter-final after defeating Lewes's Tony Cook 21-13 and then beating Newick's Des Foord in the
Unbadged singles. Ian Watson is the club's last survivor in the county singles following a 21-17 win against Maurice Awcock and must now beat Middleton Cup
skip Aaron Sexton to reach the quarter finals, to be held at Lewes on July 6th.
In the county double fours Lindfield began their campaign with a comfortable victory against Newick, winning on both rinks and now play Brighton in the
second round.
In the Mid Sussex league the club suffered a disappointing 8-2 reverse at home to West Hoathly but there was better news in the John Spriggs with a resounding
10-0 success at St Francis and also a solid 7 points to 3 win in the Border League against Horsham. In the Nellie Mercer the ladies came unstuck, slipping to a
4-2 loss at Henfield.
Peter Colbourne took on Dave Vanson from Maidstone in the London & Southern Counties Lonsdale competition and it proved a fruitless journey for the man
from Maidstone with Peter recording a 21-3 win inside the hour. In the second round of the Tom Francis double fours Lindfield fell to a surprise defeat to
Handcross by 4 shots. The away team of Chris Sugarhood, Sue Willmott, Mick O'Donnell and Chris Reynolds managed a 1 shot win, 17-16 but the home rink of
Shirley Nelson, Carol Watson, Derek Heather and Terry Hughes went down 23-18.
The teams have just been posted for the Felbridge and Buxted Park friendlies for this coming weekend:
Lindfield's men enjoyed a comfortable win in the first round of the County Double Fours (aka "Abergavenny") last night against Newick. The home rink of Chris Reynolds, Roger Green, Terry Hughes and Dave Richardson won 24-12 against Peter Carter's rink, while the away team of Adam Harding, Graeme Geddie, Keith Holman and Ian Watson had a convincing 27-10 win. Lindfield play Brighton in the next round.
The elder statesmen of Lindfield came up trumps in the Edward Rowland competition when Frank Palmer, John Foster, Ken Eldred and Derek Heather –
whose combined ages total no less than 313 beat Hotham in the first round 26-21. Despite the damp conditions the home team built up a
healthy lead to kill the game off and keep the clubs interest in the knockout tournament alive.
In the national double fours Lindfield travelled to their old rivals Preston and edged a close encounter 43-40. The rink of Adam Harding, Graeme Geddie,
Keith Holman and Ian Watson got off to a flying start, picking up a count of 7 on the way to building a 14-1 lead, however the game turned at the half
way mark when Preston's number 3 Darren Anderson trailed the jack to hand his team a large count of their own and at that stage the whole tie could
have gone either way.
Watson's rink managed to hold on to a slender lead until closing out their game as 28-20 winners. Meanwhile Frank Palmer,
Peter Colbourne, Tom Palmer and Terry Hughes were involved in a battle of their own against Dennis Alderton, Don Kent, Peter Morgan and Adrian Finnie,
with Adrian in particularly good form but the 15-20 result ensured the overall win.
In the county pairs Chris Reynolds and Roger Green face an intriguing match against 2008 winners Darren Anderson and Andy Smalldridge in the fourth round
after beating West Hoathly's Bob Skipp and Roger Meacham.
The Border league and Mid Sussex league campaigns began with away wins at Redhill and Henfield respectively and in the John Spriggs there was an opening
53-45 victory against Buxted. Lindfield ladies followed their win against Royal Sovereign with a 49-23 triumph over Bexhill in the county double rink and
now play West Hoathly. In the Nellie Mercer league the ladies defeated Horsham Park 45-22 thanks to Carol Watson and her team racing to a 32-11 win and
Stella Wellum's rink supporting them with a 13-11 success of their own.
Lindfield's ladies have enjoyed a successful few days, winning their first Nellie Mercer game against Horsham Park 6-0, with Carol Watson's rink recording
an impressive 32-11 win. After beating Royal Sovereign in the preliminary round of the Sussex double rink, the ladies' team beat Bexhill yesterday, 49-23, and
now face West Hoathly on the 17th of June.
Meanwhile Lindfield's league teams got off to a good start, the John Spriggs team winning 8-2 against Buxted Park (53-45 on shots), and the Mid-Sussex League
team also winning 8-2.
In the county pairs Chris Reynolds and Roger Green are through to the fourh round after a recording a comfortable win against Bob Skipp at home. Adam Harding
and Keith Homan are also through to the fourth round after beating Don Kent and Peter Morgan 20-12 at Preston, and now face either Preston Park or Dyke Road Park
in the next round.
There was disappointment though for Graeme Geddie and Tom Palmer, who lost 24-16 to Brighton's father and son pairing of Dave and Jeff Hutson.
Congratulations to Graeme Geddie, Adam Harding, Keith Holman, Dave Richardson and Ian Watson on their selection for the second Middleton Cup game at home to
Buckinghamshire CBA on Saturday 19th June. Sussex go into this second of three matches needing as many points as possible to maintain their position near the
top of their group.
The full team is here.
Lindfield "B" enjoyed a tense victory at Preston last night in the fourth round of the Mens' National Double Fours, winning 43-40. Adam Harding, Graeme Geddie,
Keith Holman and Ian Watson got off to a flying start, picking up a 6 and a 7 against Andy Smalldridge's rink, but they were pegged back later on, and eventually won 28-20.
Frank Palmer, Peter Colbourne, Tom Palmer and Terry Hughes played a tight game against Adrian Finnie's rink, at 14-14 it could have gone either way, but a succession of
telling woods from Finnie saw the Preston rink win 5 of the last 6 ends, but with the scoring mostly in singles they couldn't overturn the other rink's defecit, and the
eventual 20-15 win wasn't quite enough to halt Lindfield's progress.
Lindfield destroyed Felbridge in the first round of the Tom Francis double fours competition with an overall victory margin of 43 shots.
The home rink of Shirley Nelson, Sue Willmott, Chris Reynolds and Keith Holman racked up an impressive 37-13 win and it was as equally convincing from
the away team of Chris Sugarhood, Carol Watson, Mick O’Donnell and Roger Green who won 28-9.
There was a narrow 2 shot defeat for one of the two Edward Roland teams in action when Alan Price, Peter Gacsall, Geoff Nelson and Terry Hughes lost 13-15
away at Steyning. In the mens' National Champion of Champions Ian Watson defeated current Sussex singles champion Andy Smalldridge 21-14 despite Andy
making the better start, opening up a six shot lead early on.
Mick O'Donnell is the lone survivor in the county unbadged singles after winning his second game 21-8 and now faces a trickier match against Lewes's
Tony Cook. In the county pairs there were wins for Graeme Geddie and Ivan Orchin at Buxted and Chris Reynolds and Roger Green at Mackie and the club
still has two teams going strong in the fours with the rink skipped by Chris Reynolds winning at home against Woodingdean and Ian Watson's quartet
surviving a closely fought match against Uckfield.
Ladies champion Sue Willmott earned convincing wins in both the national and the Mid Sussex champion of champion events thanks to 21-8 and 21-5 victories
and she was also in action in the county pairs with Carol Watson where the duo beat Seaford 21-8 in the prelim round and enjoyed the luxury of a bye
in the first round proper.
The club had five players representing Sussex in the first Middleton Cup match of the season against the Isle of Wight and they were all on winning
rinks as Sussex secured an important first victory at Worthing on Saturday.
Lindfield ladies enjoyed a successful week including a win in the Top Club against Sidley Martlets.
Carol Watson got the ball rolling with a 21-7 win in the singles and this was followed by a 29-5 pairs victory for Shirley Nelson and
Sue Willmott and a tense 17-16 win in the fours by Joan Corless, Meta Orchin, Stephanie Tuddenham and Stella Wellum.
The only defeat came in the triples when Chris Sugarhood, Jean Spooner and Shirley Foxwell lost by 2 shots, 12-14.
In the national double rink Lindfield ladies earned 35-30 win against Royal Sovereign (Eastbourne) and in the Gladys Roland competition
the 'A' side eased to a comfortable 19-4 victory against Horsham Park. The only disappointment for the ladies was the defeat of their
Gladys Roland 'B' team who fought back from 12-17 down to take a 3 shot lead in to the final end against Worthing only to drop a count of
four to lose 21-22.
In the national over 55 pairs the all Lindfield encounter saw Shirley Nelson and Sue Willmott edge past Chris Sugarhood and Carol Watson
thanks to a strong finish over the last three ends after their early lead had nearly been pegged back.
There was a surprise result in the men's county pairs when Chris Reynolds and Roger Green claimed the prize scalps of the 2007
champions Ian Watson and Dave Richardson. Chris and Roger seized the early initiative opening up a 7-1 lead and led all the way to
win 24-17.
To add to Richardson's woes he, along with team mates Peter Colbourne and Peter Treagus went out of the county triples when they
suffered an 11-17 loss at West Hoathly. In the men's national double fours the more experienced Lindfield 'B' side claimed a
somewhat flattering 33 shot victory against their own 'A' team, with the winners now facing a trip to either Preston or Mackie.
Congratulations to Peter Colbourne, Graeme Geddie, Adam Harding, Keith Holman and Ian Watson on being selected for the first Middleton Cup game of the season, they will form part of the 24-man Sussex squad to play against the Isle of Wight at Worthing Pavilion on Saturday 5th June. You can view the whole team here.
In the ladies over 55s national pairs Lindfield's Chris Sugarhood and Carol Watson met their own team mates Sue Paterson and
Stella Wellum and in a closely fought game Chris and Carol took a four shot lead in to the last end and this was enough to secure
them the victory. Also going strong are Shirley Nelson and Sue Willott who defeated West Hoathly's Pat Adam and Bernadine Philpot
14-12 in the first round and followed this with a more convincing 22-13 victory against Rottindean.
The two Lindfield pairs now meet in the next round.
In the first round of the ladies county triples Stella Wellum, Carol Watson and Jean Spooner qualified after beating Barcombe.
In the opening stages of the men's county competitions Ian Watson emerged as a 21-9 winner in the champion of champions but the
outcome was less favourable for those competing in the pairs. Derek Heather and Terry Hughes succumbed to Woodingdean and in
their first season together Alan Price and Bryan Mills got off to a flying start against Dyke Road but eventually lost out on
what would have been a memorable win, losing 24-17.
Congratulations go to Mick O'Donnell and Terry Hughes who have successfully qualified as level 2 coaches.
In their opening game of the national mixed fours Shirley Nelson, Sue Willmott, Adam Harding and Dave Richardson travelled to
Peacehaven and won a very one sided encounter 31-2. The game was over as a contest as early as the 9th end with the score 24-0
in favour of the Lindfield four and their opposition conceded after a mere 14 ends to leave Richardson’s team with a second round
match away at West Hoathly.
Richardson then teamed up with Ian Watson on Sunday and the pair recorded a comfortable 16 shot win against a Maidstone duo in the
London & Southern County pairs competition.
On Saturday (22nd) Watson and Graeme Geddie will be representing Sussex in the opening Home Counties League match against Kent
which is being played at Popes Mead bowling club in Crawley, with Watson playing 3 to Popes Mead's Mick Law and Geddie playing
with Eastbourne's Derek Dyer.
Lindfield mens' national double-fours "B" team won through in their second consecutive match against West Hoathly, this time defeating their "A" team by
16 shots on their challenging green. Dave Richardson's rink scrapped hard and picked up 3 on the last end to sneak a one-shot win, 22-21, while Ian Watson's rink enjoyed a more convincing 25-10 victory.
Lindfield "B" now take on Lindfield "A" in the third round.
There was double success for Lindfield on Saturday when both their National Double Fours teams won their opening matches. Representing the ‘A’ team against
Uckfield were the rinks of Alan Price, Peter Treagus, Mick O’Donnell and Chris Reynolds who raced away to a 14-3 lead and maintained a healthy gap
throughout to finally triumph 20-12. They were ably supported by Ivan Orchin, Ron Langridge, Peter Gacsall and Geoff Nelson who built on a good start to
record a comfortable 26-10 win.
Lindfield ‘B’ were up against familiar opposition West Hoathly and with both rinks getting off to a good start the result was never in doubt.
Peter Colbourne, Roger Green, Terry Hughes and Dave Richardson took control of their game early on and won 28-10 and it was a similar story for Adam Harding,
Graeme Geddie, Keith Holman and Ian Watson who finished as 29-5 winners. In a busy weekend for the club they played host to Seaford on Saturday and edged a closely
fought game 90-89 and followed this with a visit to Beach House Park , Worthing where the rink wins were shared in a 75-75 draw.
Lindfield B now travel to West Hoathly on Tuesday 18th (view the team), with the A team
due to play the winners.
The first round of the national Top Club competition was played in atrocious conditions as Lindfield endured a frustrating start to their
competitive season when they visited Mackie. Some of their number felt the tie had to be played unnecessarily early because of the deadline
date set by the EBA and the constant morning rain made the outcome something of a lottery.
With the two singles matches being shared and Lindfield winning the four bowl but losing out in the two bowl singles, the club then took a
2-1 lead in the tie thanks to a convincing win in the triples. However, with the rain falling ever harder, the pairs and fours teams both lost
ground on their opposition and with the chances of an overall victory all but gone, both matches were conceded before the full allocation of
ends had been played.
Lindfield will hope for better fortunes this Saturday when both their national double fours teams play at home
against West Hoathly and Uckfield respectively.
The teams for the friendly matches against Handcross, Godstone and St Francis have been uploaded to the website.
You will still need
to tick your name off at the club-house to indicate your availability, and any subsequent team alterations may not be reflected on the website.
The team for the first round of the mens' Top Club competition has been selected. We play in the preliminary round away to Mackie on Sunday May 2nd.
2 wood singles: Peter Colbourne
4 wood singles: Dave Richardson
Pair: Graeme Geddie and Keith Holman
Triple: Peter Gacsall, Adam Harding, Ian Watson
Four: Frank Palmer, Chris Reynolds, Roger Green, Terry Hughes
Our two National Double Fours teams have also been selected. In no particular order, they are:
"A" team:
Ivan Orchin, Ron Langridge, Mick O'Donnell, Peter Keogh, Tom Palmer, Chris Reynolds, Alan Price, Peter Treagus.
"B" team
Terry Hughes, Roger Green, Dave Richardson, Peter Colbourne, Adam Harding, Ian Watson, Keith Holman, Graeme Geddie.
Good luck to all those involved!
Just a reminder that the new season starts this Saturday 24th April, the green will be open from 10am onwards.
The annual pre-season meeting is tomorrow (Thursday 22nd) at 7:30 in the King Edward Hall, and is a last chance to pay your annual fees, and sign up for the
internal club competitions - please come along armed with your cheque books!