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News - Thanks to John Church for this extract NATIONAL
INTER CLUB ‘DENNY CUP’ QUARTER FINALS – WELLINGBOROUGH IBC Wellingborough
IBC visited
Cheshunt IBC on Saturday, 21st January, 2012,
with a coach-load of supporters, plus others who travelled in cars in
support, when they took on the might of Cyphers
IBC, Beckenham, Kent, in the National Quarter Finals of the biggest men’s
Inter Club Indoor competition, the ‘Denny Cup’
It was always expected to be a very hard match with the Kent club having
several regular England Internationals in its team, including one of the best
known in the world, Andy Thomson, who has been a top player for decades and is
still picking up trophies. He was
not the only International in the Cyphers team for he was joined by Tom Doig,
Paul Field, Terry Heppell, and Martin Sekjer. Wellingborough
picked up an advantage of 1 shot after the first end at 4-3 but that was the
only time they held a lead until the 11th end across the green had
been completed and this was the culmination of a run of good ends from a
position where their players were as many as 11 shots adrift at one stage, but
they got 1 shot in front. This lead
was, however, only very briefly held as the next 2 ends saw Wellingborough drop
16 shots to only 2 gained which put them very much on the back foot.
The 14th end was good for the County Club as their players
picked up 8 shots to 1 conceded, helped enormously by a 5 shots pick up on Paul
Broderick’s rink, but the recovery was not sustained as in the next end their
opponents had a net gain of 8 shots and they were 14 shots up with 15 ends
played. This advantage was not
seriously challenged for the remainder of the match, despite some excellent
bowling by the County men and Cyphers maintained a decent lead to the end,
winning by 12 shots. It
is fair to say that Cyphers had the edge in bowling skills with all of their
internationals playing very much to form with perhaps the exception of Paul
Field who met a very determined and skilful rink skipped by Paul Broderick who
saw his men collect a 15 shot win.. Neil
Corbyn drew the ‘short straw’ in getting Andy Thomson who had as his number
3 the very accomplished Terry Heppell. These
two played some exceptional bowls and although the County rink lost, the score
against them was not reflective of the bowls they played, especially the front
end and both Walt Winsor and skip Neil Corbyn played many excellent bowls only
to see the result either not go their way, or Thomson following up with a killer
bowl. Maurice Allen’s rink had a
real battle against the very experienced Martin Sekjer and his men, and overall
matched their opponents all the way with very few shots separating them
throughout, and the County men took the advantage by 2 shots at the end.
On Jamie Walker’s rink Cyphers always had the upper hand with the young
international player Tom Doig playing exceptionally well throughout the match to
collect a 13 shot win.. The
final score was Wellingborough 67 shots – Cyphers 79 shots.
Rink scores, Cypher skips only, as follows: Rink
1.
Callum
Height/Paul Coley/Martin Walker/Jamie Walker 13 shots – Tom Doig 26 shots Rink
2.
Dave
Love/Bob Fuller/Wayne Gregory/Paul Broderick 27 shots – Paul Field 12 shots Rink
3.
Scott
Johnson/Curtis Johnson/Walt Winsor/Neil Corbyn 8 shots – Andy Thomson 24 shots Rink
4.
Dennis
Collins/Steve Norman/Mark Corbyn/Maurice Allen 19 shots – Martin Sekjer 17
shots NATIONAL COMPETITIONS LADIES
LADIES
LADIES SINGLES Area
Final:
Tina
Broderick, Wellingborough beat Brenda Bishop, Daventry 21-17.
She now meets either Ellen
Falkner or Catherine Popple, both of City of PAIRS Area
Final:
Eleanor
Buchanan & Donna Williamson, Kingsthorpe beat Pam Reynolds & Margaret
Johnson,
Wellingborough 21-8. They now
play in the National Championships at Melton & District IBC on
Thursday, 1st March, 2012. TRIPLES Area
Final:
Marilyn
Oram/Joyce Porter/Dena Bryan, FOURS Area
Final:
Julie
Spreadbury/Sylvia Plant/Vicki Rushall/Brenda Bishop, Daventry beat Jean
Burgess/Agnes
Johnson/Pam Reynolds/Margaret Johnson, Wellingborough 24 – 21 shots
The Bishop rink now meets either A How or MIXED
MIXED
MIXED TOP
CLUB Kingsthorpe
IBC versus Wisbech IBC on
a date yet to be played by 29th January, 2012. GENTLEMEN
GENTLEMEN
GENTLEMEN PAIRS Area
Semi-Final:
Callum Height & Jamie Walker, Wellingborough
beat Tony Dicks & Mick
20-12 TRIPLES Area
Semi Final:
Rob White/Alan Ramscar/Dominic Graham, FOURS Area
Semi-Final:
Andrew Manton/Ben Sharpe/Mick Sharpe/Neil McKee,
Kingsthorpe beat Mark Corbyn/Bob
Fuller/Paul Broderick/Neil Corbyn 22-14 SINGLES 1st
Round:
Malcolm
Paul, Desborough beat Martin White,
Desborough 2nd
Round:
Malcolm
Paul, Desborough beat Barry Bonham, Rushden
Richard Bryan, Rushden beat Martin Cinato, Desborough
Richard Lemon, PAIRS 2nd
Round:
Darren
Lewis & partner, Kingsthorpe beat Malcolm Paul & partner, Desborough
Scott Johnson & partner, Wellingborough beat Jim McKee & partner,
Kingsthorpe TRIPLES 2nd
Round:
Mick
Ross Knox’s triple, Desborough beat Chris Bland’s triple,
Martin Underwood’s triple, Rushden beat Martin Keech’s triple,
Rushden
Robert Norman’s triple, Wellingborough beat Wayne Gregory’s triple,
Wellingborough FOURS 2nd
Round:
Matt
Pownall’s rink, Desborough beat Malc Mattinson’s rink, Rushden
Mike Arnold’s rink, Kingsthorpe beat Scott Johnson’s rink,
Wellingborough
Duggie Mitchell’s rink, Daventry beat Mick Corbyn’s rink, Rushden
Tony Burns’ rink, Kingsthorpe beat John Pickaver’s rink, Desborough
Dave Flippance’s rink, Daventry beat John Sach’s rink, Daventry UNDER
25 SINGLES 1st
Round:
Curtis
Johnson, Wellingborough beat Matt Cattell, Rushden
David Walker, Kingsthorpe beat Ross Knox, Desborough NBYDS
Competitions UNDER
15 SINGLES 1st
Round:
Alice
Moore,
Adam Paige, 15-18
SINGLES 1st
Round:
Liam
Baxter, Kingsthorpe beat Kay White, Desborough 21-12
Nick Manton, Kingsthorpe given walkover by Louise Haladij,
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