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Contributor / 2010-03-07 12:23:09

Don't panic, there's a reporter in Alnwick !! You would think with all these members and computers they would be queuing up for this job, but no, so it's back to old faithful !! Well Done to Steve Hibberd for doing such a good job for over a year on top of the other jobs he's involved with.

George Rothwell was first in with the info on the S.A.B.A. Enterprise League for his Apollos against San Miguel Meteors. 10 - 4 it ended for La Siesta and quite convincing some of these scores were as well.
J. Rothwell, P. Barber, D. Livesey.        27 - 9.
P. Rhodes, S. Hibberd, H. Rhodes.       32 - 12.
C. Jackson, D. Buchanan, B. Fraser.     22 - 12.
K. Parker, B. Gardiner, J. Cooper.          15 - 10.
J. Gardiner, I. Kenyon,J. Mullarkey.         15 - 16.
S. Chorley, C. Chorley, D. Eccles.          15 - 19.

So that was 126 - 78 for the 'good guys', but next time they could easily overturn that because it's always a fight against S.M.

In the Southern League, Margaret Hunter's Golds were away at La Marina in a rearranged game against the Dolphins last Wednesday. L.M. are as hard as San Miguel to get any points off at home, so to come away with a win on three rinks is a very fair result, even if two of the wins were only by one shot. Hopefully Fridays game against San Luis is a bit easier, time will tell ?

The Silvers played Monte Mar Toreadors on Friday in the Southern League and the result given to me don't match up to the result sheet, so I'll tell you what is on the sheet scorewise and Captain Steve can fight it out with the powers that be !!
S. Oram, V. Mahomet, I. Kenyon. 43 - 6.
A. Heath, R. Heath, J. Cooper. 24 - 29.
H. Clarke, P. Rhodes, H. Rhodes. 12 - 21.
S. Chorley, J. Clarke, C. Chorley. 12 - 18.
S. Lawson, J. Johnson, B. Fraser. 11 - 24.
S. Needham, P. Barber, R. Needham. 13 - 16.

To me, that looks like 4 - 10 and the shots run out at 115 - 114. Another close call, just like the Golds on Wednesday.

Yet another close call on Friday at home to San Luis Tigers. Captain Margaret Hunter tells me the real winner was the weather, extremely windy and very cold and the bowls were all over the place.

The game of S. Milward, S. Jordan and I. Goodsell was a close game and they were unlucky not to win, holding two on the last end until the very last wood. S. Mahomet, N. Murphy and H. Barnby had an exceptional game on the dreaded Rink 3, the result of which gave us the overall shots win !! F. Kay, R. Milward and J. Ball had a very even game, being level at almost every end. At the end of 14 ends it was only 9 shots each. The final conclusion was that Siesta won by 4 shots and took the 8 points, but 6 points is not a bad result for San Luis away from home ?

Back on Wednesday afternoon in the Chicken ( some say the best event of the week ) Brian Thomason won the Chicken, Peta Rhodes got the Wine and Bernie Crawford was happy with the Eggs.

Now the really good news, ' Blue Chip ' full membership has become available at La Siesta and anyone wishing to take this out should contact Jim A.S.A.P. before they all go !! The number to ring is 690-190-523.

The not so good news is that one of our better bowlers had a stroke, but the word is that progress is being made by Norman Lewington, so hopefully you keep getting better Norman.

Also on the medical front, isn’t Peta Rhodes looking really trim after the surgical exploration of her innards ? I know there are other members not feeling too good and I'm sure everyone wishes them a speedy return to the green.
As that's all the results that are to hand, it's safe to say
Adios the Noo.