GREENLANDS BOWLS REPORT BY TEXAS TED

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Contributor / 2010-03-07 12:10:34

In the Southern League Division A The Yellows and the Greens both played teams from the Emerald Isle.

The Yellows entertained the Jets and took 10 of the 14 points with a 127-98 win.
The Greens played away against the Diamonds and took 6 points despite winning on only two rinks. They took the overall shot score by 91 to 89.

In Division B The Oranges travelled south to face La Manga on the dreaded grass! Enough said, they came home empty handed as most teams do.

In the SABA Discovery League The Yellows maintained their challenge towards the top of the division with a convincing 10 points to 4 win home win against Quesada Diamonds.

In a very busy weekend at Greenlands on Saturday we took on the Welsh Ex-Pat Team fresh from our very creditable draw with the Spanish National Squad.
The Welsh Dragon was spitting fire with St Davids`s Day looming but we sharpened our swords and slew the dragon by 117 shots to 104.

During the match Bill `Crackerjack` Pain did it again and split the jack in half with one of his now famous firing shots. The committee are considering increasing his membership fee next season to cover this extra cost!

On Sunday we had our Premier 20 Semi-Final against Javea Green. This is a home and away match played simultaneously and the 2 singles matches were shared with Bill Pain winning at home but Lynn Greenland losing away to an inform Nick Cole. The Pairs went the same way with Sue Johnson and Mel Brown winning at home whilst `up north` Sheila Stead and Dave Greenland lost narrowly, All square.

At home the Greenlands rink of Noel Cork, Ronnie Cairns, Steve Westall and Derek Toozer won comfortably only to hear (mobile phones were buzzing) that our away Triple of Jan Pocock, Peter Crane and Brian Pocock had lost. The last two games to finish were both extremely close. At Greenlands the home trip of Jeannie Clements, Colin Lloyd and Dave O`Sullivan had fought back to tie the score with one end to play.

Colin was holding shot with a `toucher` in the ditch but the Javea skip hit the jack into the ditch which bounced off of Colins wood and moved to the left in the ditch leaving Javea with the winning shot. Last game to finish (surprise, surprise) was the rinks at Javea where the Greenland squad of Carol Rudge, Wendy Latham, Angie Goodfellow and Barry Latham were tied with one end to play. We were holding the shot and as hard as Javea tried they failed to remove the wood. We`d won by 3 shots overall.

What a match. Congratulations to both teams it was a shame that someone had to lose. La Siesta now await us in the Final.