Buckinghamshire

Short Mat Bowling Association

MATCH REPORTS

A good days bowling enjoyed by both teams and played in a great spirit with laughter and smiles the order of the day from start to finish. This is how short mat bowls should be played.

In the first half the singles, pairs and fours shared the honours one game each. Unfortunately the triples had a rough time losing both games. At the half way stage, Bucks were leading 83 shots to 71 showing that where we won we won well. The points score however, was 6 to Bucks but 10 to Northants.

After lunch the singles, triples and fours games were shared with the pairs only missing joining the party with the last wood on the last end for Harley and Marlene Neems.

The final result was Bucks 17 points and 165 shots and Surrey 23 points and 158 shots. A very close result when you consider Northants won two of their games by just one shot and a third by two.

(Editors note:  thanks to Peter Coker for submitting this report and to Paul Knight for the photos - if anyone would like to contribute pictures or articles for inclusion in this site, send them  to shortmat.bucks@tiscali.co.uk)