Calne Bowls Club

Yesterday saw our annual match between the Ladies and the men which brings the organised season of events on the green at Calne to a close.

This year’s event was played as 5 rinks of triples with the Men winning 4 of the 5 rinks. The Ladies winning rink was skipped by Esther who took the scalp of our chairman Steve Mc.

It was good to see a number of our new bowlers playing. They have now found the enjoyment of playing in the rain as there was one short break when a heavy shower descend on Calne making the players take shelter.

The bowls was followed by a spider and raffle before all present enjoyed a great tea prepared by the Ladies.

Our thanks to Yvonne and Steve McColl for their organising of the event and getting the teams together.

Unfortunately the weather intervened for the final of the WHL causing the match to be postponed. At present we do not have a revised date for our game and there is talk of holding it over until next season. We will keep everyone advised once we know a date.

The end of season play-offs have been taking place this week. Calne Falcons came through a tough match against Avon on Monday. They were never ahead until the last end which is where it matters, winning the game by one shot. In the semi-finals they played North Wilts and this was a more comfortable game. The Falcons were always just ahead and opened up a decent gap after the tea break to win by seven shots. They now progress to the final which will be played on Thursday 4^th at Spencer Melksham at 2pm. This is a repeat of last year’s final with the opposition again being Chippenham Town A.

Supporters are welcome to give a cheer for the team.

The league is made up of 5 divisions with promotion and relegation each season. It is a single rink league. Last season saw our Beez team finish second in division 5 and gain promotion to division 4 and our Falcons team won division 3 and were promoted to division 2.

Following on that success the Beez under the captaincy of Dave Whitehead have won division 4 this season and the Falcons  led by captain Les Fish have won division 2.  This is a great achievement in having 2 teams promoted in consecutive seasons.

At the end of the season the 5 league winners and 3 best second placed teams qualify for a knock out play-off. Last season the Falcons narrowly lost the final of the play-offs.

This year the final rounds are being played at Spencer Melksham. The quarter finals are on Monday 2^nd September at 2pm when the Beez take on Chippenham Town A who won division 1 whilst the Falcons play against Avon Arrows who were runners up in division 1. Two tough matches for our sides. If the teams are successful in those games then they progress to the semi-finals on Tuesday 3^rd September with the final on Thursday the 5^th. All games at Spencer Melksham.

Benevolent Triples

Our Ladies had a mixed day on Saturday. They had a good win in the mornings quarter final against Amesbury winning 16 – 10. Alas the Semi-final did not go their way losing to a strong triple from Purton 7 – 19.

Our congratulations to them for their success in this county competition in reaching the semi – finals.

Well done Ladies

Our Ladies Triple of Sheila Murphy, Ann Chatwin and Phyllis Jennings have reached the quarter finals of the Bowls Wiltshire Benevolent Triples.

After victories in the second round against a team from North Wilts they then beat another team from North Wilts in the third round.

The quarter finals are being played at Devizes on Saturday the 10^th August starting at 10.30 when our Ladies are drawn to play a team from Amesbury. If they win that match they then play the semi-finals in the afternoon.

Good luck to our Ladies on Saturday.

This morning we played Home and Away in the Tourist trophy coming away with a 3 shot win and progress to round 2 with a match against Avon Bowls club, date to be advised.

this afternoon we hosted a friendly against Yate and another lovely afternoon basking in the sunshine, sadly we didn’t get the spoils losing 44 – 54, we did however enjoy a fabulous tea put together by Rita And Phyllis aided by many others who supplied the food, thanks to all.

Today we saw the Ladies play Box Purple at home in the seidal league, it didn’t go our way today with box running out 23 – 9 winners.

the three white horse teams were in action with The Cavaliers away to Boals (Bradford on Avon) didnt manage to follow up on their win from last week just came up short losing 17 – 13, the Beez were at Trowbridge Westbourne and came up just short with westbourne running out 16 – 6 winners.

the Falcons fared better today with a close match against Chippenham Town but came out on top winning 18 – 14.

this evening saw Martin Hugh and Derek playing in the over sixties triples against Chippenham park again a close game but the away team took the spoils with a 18 – 15 win.

there was also a club competition with Delia and Angela Candy taking a 18 – 16 win against Sheila and Mayumi.

tonight there were three national/county matches played with Dave Johns and Ian Gregory 22 – 11 winners in the pairs, Yvonne and Delia played a close match against Supermarine sadly losing 17 – 20, Sheila and Mayumi were pitted against Chippenham Town also a close match but losing out 13 – 18, well done all it was a pleasure to watch in the sunshine.

we also had a club competition being played where Steve McColl ran out winner in the 101.

Dave Johns made the trip to Trowbridge town to play his Champion of Champions game this afternoon Dave took an early 4 shot lead then rested for a while which helped as he came away 24 – 12 winner, next he goes to Blue circle.