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Cambridgeshire Short Mat Bowls News story


Chairmans End Of Season Fun Drive

26 Apr 2025

The chairman Mr Barry Fox presided over an excellent drive which attracted good interest from our members.

Unfortunately a few members withdrew due to illness but we still fielded 44 members for the days drive. All members who paid entrance fees and then for unforeseen reasons had to withdraw, will be sent full refunds in accordance with our current policy.

This year all entrants played at the same time in a combination of 2 wood triples and 3 wood pairs on eight mats across what was initially intended as four rounds

The chairman had organised the buffet supplied by local caterers, and although it turned up a little later than planned it was great to see members unanimously agreeing to play an extra round whilst waiting for lunch.

The buffet costs were met in full by the CSMBA and although this means that overall we made a loss on the day its only right that members who support the county competitions have the opportunity of being rewarded.

This drive was organised whereby teams sorted themselves out as to playing position which appeared to work very well, and amazingly we were constantly ahead of planned timings.

The final scores were incredibly close and at the end of play the chairman presented some nice boxes of biscuits to the top four places.

1st Charlie Waling with 59 shots

2nd Peter Johnson with 57 shots

3rd Rosemary Richardson with 55 shots.

4th Steph Stanford with 51 shots.

Another very good raffle on the day and thank you to all those who generously donated prizes and purchased plenty of tickets.

Finally I would like to thank those members (not just those members of the committee that were at the event) who without prompting turned up early to help with the setting out of mats and were still there at the end of the day to pack the equipment up again.

Thank you again to all those members who contributed to a great day.

 

David Wilcox

Interim Competitions Organiser