{"id":9663,"date":"2024-03-01T23:38:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T23:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/?p=9663"},"modified":"2024-03-01T23:50:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T23:50:19","slug":"northants-success-at-potters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/?p=9663","title":{"rendered":"NORTHANTS SUCCESS AT POTTERS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NORTHANTS bowlers came away from the English Bowling Federation bowls week at Potters Resort with the coveted title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Stamford rink of Rosemary Roberts, who was runner-up last year in another rink, Elizabeth and Martin Wallace and Chris Ford swept to the mixed fours crown with a string of impressive performance none more so than in the final where they defeated a strong Nottingham rink who were former winners of the title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They led 6-1 in the eight-end final before dropping a four on the penultimate end, but kept their composure to take a single on a dramatic last end to win 7-5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a similar story in the semi-final, where they also dropped a four count on the seventh end against North Cambs to trail 5-6 going into the final end, but again they came up trumps with a double to win 7-5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They were the only one of six Northants rinks that made it through to the last 16 from the group stages, winning  all  four matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/POTTERS-PIC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"604\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/POTTERS-PIC-1024x604.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/POTTERS-PIC-1024x604.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/POTTERS-PIC-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/POTTERS-PIC-768x453.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/POTTERS-PIC-1140x672.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/POTTERS-PIC.jpg 1526w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The Northants winners at Potters are pictured with national presidents Trevor Flatt and Irene Ballam. (Left to right) &#8211; Rosemary Roberts, Chris Ford, Elizabeth Wallace and Martin Wallace.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NORTHANTS bowlers came away from the English Bowling Federation bowls week at Potters Resort with the coveted title. The Stamford rink of Rosemary Roberts, who was runner-up last year in another rink, Elizabeth and Martin Wallace and Chris Ford swept to the mixed fours crown with a string of impressive performance none more so than &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/?p=9663\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9663","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\/9663","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9667,"href":"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9663\/revisions\/9667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}