Cambridgeshire Short Mat Bowls News story


4 Wood Pairs Sunday 26th October 2025

03 Nov 2025

SUNDAY 26TH OCTOBER 2025:FOUR WOOD PAIRS

This year we had 14 teams enter the 4 wood pairs competition. To be frank we expected a few more entries but it seems as though we clashed with holidays and other commitments.

Regardless we all had a pretty good but long day of bowling, with all teams playing all rounds and refreshment breaks in between. This format has proved quite popular and we will certainly give this schedule of play another go where no teams are left sitting out.

We planned 6 rounds of 7 ends which with no dead ends was a minimum of 252 woods each player. This proved a little tiring for some of our more mature members but we all made it to the bitter end.

Only team 8 made up of Barry Fox and Wayne Locke remained unbeaten throughout the day and well done to them

The top 4 placings were listed as follows:-

1st Team 8 : Wayne Locke & Barry Fox with 12 points and a SD of +24.

2nd Team 7 : David Wilcox & Roly Fincham with 9 points and a SD of +26

3rd Team 4 : Charlie Rate & Richard Kinghorn with 9 points and a SD of +7

4th Team 10 : Barry Stanford & Malcolm Spriggs with 8 points and a SD of +31

As the chairman and secretary were to receive prizes, Steph Stanford as a committee member kindly presented chocolate and boxes of biscuit prizes to the winning teams.

After a successful raffle and all deductions the event returned a profit of £119.16 towards CSMBA funds.

 

Signed David Wilcox

CSMBA County Competition Secretary (Interim)