South Park Bowls Club

A mixed night for Pairs saw Simon Brodie and Bary Hopkins go out of the tournament to Neil Buckley And Vin Rewcastle of the RA. The game was close and must have been frightening the home team, although in the credit crunch it was seemed desirable to throw away perfectly good dummies.

The rink next door saw Scott and Bill Morland triumph to a 19-14 win over Tony Macey and John Hills.

Its been a mixed week for our teams other the last week in EBA competitons.

Barry Hopkins & Keith Burton had to give up after only 15ends in the paris yesterday against Neil Buckley and Vin Rewcastle of the RA. Barry was also knocke dout of the singles at Elm Tree BC in Stockton 21-20 earlier in the week.

Scott & Bill Morland progressed in the Pairs beating Alan Cooper and Doug Baines from Hundens 23-12. Scott lost in his singles 21-14 to Bill Glenn earlier in the week but Bill had a win 21-17 in the National Champion of Champions at Middleton St George and is ready to face either Stve Northam of the RA or Graham Peacock of Hundens in the next round.
Scott also plays his 2 wood singles today at Elm Tree BC.

At last a win for Scott Morland this season winning in the pairs with his Dad Bill Morland.

They managed to beat Doug Baines and Alan Cooper from Hundens 23-12 but the score doesn’t tell the full story.

Despite being on a pathetic rink 1 at South Park The Hundend rink took an earler 8-4 lead which should have been more on their domination of the game.

However Bill Morland changed the length by 2 yards which blew Doug away and from there on the home team managed to coast confortably into a finish and shake hands after 20 ends.

As expected on early form this season Scott Morland was knocked out of the EBA Singles by Bill Gaunt of Elm Tree Stockton 21-14.

After a terrible start Scott did improve and started to compete and at 15-10 down things were looking promising. Sadly his 1st wood was not good enough to put any pressure on Bill and the score was of no surprise.

Tonight sees the semi-final of the Durham Triples as Scott, Bill Morland and Bev Turnbull travel to Fishburn to play Jason Taylors rink from Leeholme.

A very tough tie, but if Scott Morland can get his finger out of his ar$e you never know what can be achieved!

Yesterday saw another successful open day for our club, with a reasonable turnout in the sunshine events started with a quick game of football on the bowls green. Many silky skills were shown especially from Ken Wood! – A few people had sore toes though after a while as the jack was the ball used!!!

After much competition the winners were – Bill Morland, Sandra Hopkins and Sue Harston.

After another victory the only question that comes to mind is how?? – A poor performance by Scott Morland/Bill Morland and Sandra Hopkins saw them got to Fishburn and win 16-15. After playing on heavy green all week in other competitions this bendy rink turned out to be quite difficult.

Tonight sees another demoralising game at home to Shildon BR where again we may be playing short although hope Ryan Harbron will make his debut.

This week see 2 big games for Scott Morland. Pairs and Hospital Cup games take place at Leeholme and Fishburn over the next 2 nights.

These are both tricky games but there seems to be a bit of confidence in the camp that we can win some of these competitions this year.

Last night Scott Morland progressed to the semi-final of the Lord Younger singles beating Mal Cundick of North Lodge 21-10.

Simon Brodie managed to combat a win against the clubs superstar Scott Morland last night 21-14. After not bringing a marker as home player Scott reluctantly let him play on his favourite rink and ignored his moaning early on as Simon was 6-1 down.

However credit where credits due, Simon managed to take his finger out of his behind and turn on a show. A good competitive game ended in his favour. Scott will be furious noe if he doesn’t go on to win it and quoted “I’ll just have to beat my Dad in the main club championship on friday!”

The team had a good night of success away at Belmont last night in the Durham League Handicap Knock-Out.
We held a 27-26 lead before the start of play and then had 2 out of 4 rinks win to take us through to the 2nd round where we will face 1st Division outfit EverReady Craghead. This will be a very difficult fixture but with a 26 shot start it will be a good opportunity to again progress.