Melvyn Beck
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COUNTY CELEBRATE TROPHY HAUL
COUNTY bowlers celebrated a record haul of English Bowling Federation indoor national titles at the NBF/NWBF presentation luncheon held at the Ellindon Banqueting Suite, Bretton. Young Ollie Jeapes and NBF chairman Martyn Dolby retained the junior and senior singles respectively at Lincoln in April; Paul Dalliday, Simon Law and Triston Morton claimed the triples crown …
WEEKEND COUNTY FINALS
THE NBF and NWBF have agreed to experiment with a county finals weekend next year in a bid to ease the burden on players qualifying in several events. This year two players, Martyn Dolby and Sue Seed, both qualified in no fewer than six finals which meant they had to put a substitute in one …
CLIFF WATSON MEMORIAL MATCH
THE second Cliff Watson Memorial indoor match between a Northants Bowling Federation representative team and Peterborough & District takes place at the Peterborough & District club on Sunday, September 28th at 2.00pm. Any interested in playing in this match to mark the memory of the Federation stalwart should contact either Graham Agger on 07787 124258 …
NWBF XMAS BINGO
THE NWBF are organising an Xmas Super Prize Bingo at the Peterborough & District Bowls Club on Saturday, December 13th at 7.00pm in aid of county funds. Tickets cost £10.00 which includes all books and light refreshments.
AGGER JUST MISSES HIS HAT-TRICK
FOR only the second time since 2017, Northants bowlers returned empty handed from the individual portion of the English Bowling Federation national finals at Skegness. Graham Agger (Whittlesey Manor) made a bold bid for a hat-trick of veterans singles titles only to lose 21-19 in the final to Lincolnshire’s Mick Thompson, while Shirley Suffling (Ketton) …
PARKWAY MAKE HISTORY
PARKWAY have made Northants Bowling Federation history by becoming the first club from the county to win the Durham Centenary Trophy, the English Bowling Federation’s club championship. They were comfortable 114-84 winners over Cleveland’s Hartlepool Old Boys at Skegness, winning on three of the four rinks. The competition has been running since 1995, but only …
SKEGNESS DRAWS
THE draws for the English Bowling Federation and English Women’s Bowling Federation national individual finals at Skegness starting on the Monday afternoon (August 18) through to the following Saturday morning (August 23) were released late last night (July 31). Parkway will be in action on the opening day of the championships (Saturday, August 16) when …
MANOR RETAIN ADAMS CUP
WHITTLESEY Manor lifted the NBF’s Adams Cup for the third year running following a hard fought 58-50 final victory over Crowland at the City of Peterborough club. The holders won on two of the three rinks, one from captain Tom Fielding with Kevin Brown and Phil Burbridge (18-12), and the other from the rink of …
PARKWAY IN NATIONAL FINAL
PARKWAY have qualified for the English Bowling Federation’s Durham Centenary Trophy final for the second time. They made the short trip to Spalding to defeat current holders Royal Mail Cart 95-91 in the southern area final and now face northern winners Hartlepool Old Boys from Cleveland in the national final at Skegness on Saturday, August …
BLACKSTONES WIN DUFFY FINAL
BLACKSTONES will represent the county in next season’s Durham Centenary Trophy after defeating holders Parkway in the Dan Duffy Trophy final, the county’s club championship. They claimed the trophy for the first time since 2021 with a comfortable 72-48 victory at Langtoft and in doing so denied Parkway a fourth straight success in the competition. …