{"id":5671,"date":"2019-01-07T06:41:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T06:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/?p=5671"},"modified":"2019-01-07T10:02:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T10:02:57","slug":"late-shot-concessions-prove-costly-for-northants-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/?p=5671","title":{"rendered":"Late shot concessions prove costly for Northants B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Fedties18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Fedties18-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5675\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAbove: Les Sharp (left) and Malcolm Squires, who respectively<br \/>\nrecently won their 100 &#038; 200 appearances ties for the county.<\/p>\n<p>DESPITE WINNING on three out of four rinks, Northants Federation B team suffered a devastating 85-91 defeat at the hands of fellow Derbyshire Trophy strugglers North Cambs at Peterborough.<\/p>\n<p>In this 25-end match, the closing stages proved crucial as Northants fought to close the overall 69-73 deficit with just a handful of ends to complete. But the visitors proved resilient and late shots took them over the line to claim eight of the 14 points at stake.<\/p>\n<p>Playing on an unfamiliar surface Richard Allam, John Holroyd and Jon Earl never came to terms with the pace and lines of the Peterborough carpet losing a valuable 19 shots in a seven-end spell.<\/p>\n<p>It left the other rinks, glancing worryingly at the overall scoreboard to pull their fortunes around while encouraging their team-mates.<\/p>\n<p>Mick Linnell&#8217;s rink romped to a 29-13 victory with Graham Agger snatching seven shots in the last five ends to win 23-22. For Helen Holroyd, Cliff Watson and Peter Brown a seven shot lead at 22 ends, finally dwindled to a 23-20 win.<\/p>\n<p>Northants B complete their fixtures at Peterborough on February 17 (10am) against Hunts while simultaneously Northants A entertain Lincs at Stamford in a bid to set up a chance of reaching the finals at Newark in April.<\/p>\n<p>Results (Northants names only):<\/p>\n<p>Derbyshire Inter-County Trophy (at Peterborough IBC): Northants B 85 (6pts) North Cambs 91 (8). Brian Basson, Dick Noble, Graham Agger won 23-22; Ray Keating, Mick Greaves, MIck Linnell won 29-13; Helen Holroyd, Cliff Watson, Peter Brown won 23-20; RIchard Allam, John Holroyd, Jon Earl lost 10-36.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above: Les Sharp (left) and Malcolm Squires, who respectively recently won their 100 &#038; 200 appearances ties for the county. DESPITE WINNING on three out of four rinks, Northants Federation B team suffered a devastating 85-91 defeat at the hands of fellow Derbyshire Trophy strugglers North Cambs at Peterborough. In this 25-end match, the closing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/?p=5671\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5671"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5680,"href":"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671\/revisions\/5680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}