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PARWICH CROWN GREEN BOWLS CLUB

I know you are all wondering how the Bowls Club finally did this year, well it was mixed fortunes. The suspense you can cut with a knife, it beats the hell out of the Scottish Referendum results.

In the Matlock Tuesday League two teams are promoted and relegated. Fortunately we were not involved with the latter. I perhaps should point out at this stage that there are only two divisions in the League and we play in the lower of the two so thankfully nobody can get relegated from this league! Anyway there were times this year when little Parwich was riding high at the top of the division. We did not last there very long, but at least we can tell the grand children how we achieved national immortality for a week or two. So having been at the giddy heights of division toppers we inevitably could not sustain the required momentum and we slid down the league. Our final position was fourth. Our best result for donkey’s years. I think that the main reason for our fall down the division was that we did not invest during the transfer window and the players we have are two old!

Our fortunes in the Matlock Thursday League were not so good. We got promoted! Disaster! The Club had been there or thereabouts all season, but with no real danger of promotion, however some of our last results and those of other teams meant that we finished up third. Now of course were this the Tuesday League it would have been ok, (only top two promoted) in this League, however, some dipstick playing with the rules means that the top three go up. What a mess. We will inevitably have to invest heavily in new players during the close season. Having not achieved much joy in getting new players locally, going further afield is a must. I’m not sure if they play Crown Green Bowls in Clacton or the Isle of White, but we will certainly need to strengthen the squad.

I have not heard anything about indoor bowls yet, but I will let you know when I do. Until then have a good Christmas.

John B.

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PARWICH CROWN GREEN BOWLS CLUB

Now is the time to say goodbye. Now is the time to yield a sigh. Now is the time to wend our way. (Until next year anyway.) It would have been nice to end on a winning note, but you can’t win all the time.

Matlock Tuesday bowls League.

An update on this league is that we managed to move up a place from fifth to fourth, our best result for quite a few years. We also won the same number of games as the team who came top. Not bad for our little Club.

Matlock Thursday Friendly League.
Home – Bakewell – 11 September.

Bakewell are second in the league and last week they beat the team at the top. Things did not auger well, and so it proved. As you know we sometimes don’t do very well in the doubles games and unfortunately this week was not good. We were behind 63 – 27. Our singles players did manage to retrieve the situation a little, but it was not enough to get us near to winning the match.

The final score was Bakewell 125, Parwich 103. As you readers of this fabulous weekly sports report will know we were in third place and the top three are promoted to the giddy heights of the top division. After this week’s result we will be lucky to stay there.

So that’s it for another year. Still desperate for new players and if we get promoted we will need them even more. We may get another invitation to play indoor bowls at Ashbourne Bowls Club on Monday afternoons. If we do I will let you know and you will be welcome to join us.

John B

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PARWICH CROWN GREEN BOWLS CLUB

So we managed to finish on a winning note in one league this week and the win in the other league keeps us on course to still get promoted. The difference this year has been the two new members we had, Sue and Tony A. Would that we could get a few more NEW MEMBERS.

Matlock Tuesday bowls league.
Home – Ashwood Park – 2 September.

Last match of the season in this league and we wanted to end on a high. With some great play from Harry B and John B this was achieved, they won 21 – 5. Another win was Dennis and Clara E who sorted out the opposition 21 – 16. Although we lost the other two games our scores were such that we came out on top 76 – 63. We were fifth in the league before this match and our score will ensure that we stay in that position, up a place from last year. What will we do on a Tuesday evening? Watch the inevitable repeats on the idiot’s lantern.

Matlock Thursday Friendly League.
Away – Whitworth Park – 4 September.

Now the very scary thing is that three teams get promoted from this league and we are third, and after today’s result we should stay there. Our doubles teams winning well two of the three games and giving us a ten point lead 58 – 48. In the singles we won 5 out of the six games, with Sue A scoring best 15 – 5. The final score was 85 – 50. Because we were one player short (11 instead of 12) we had to accept a 3 point penalty. Thankfully this did not affect the final score which was Whitworth Park 98, Parwich 140. Only one more match to play, against the team who are second in the league. Should be interesting.

• Next match – Home – Bakewell  – 11 September – 1.45pm.

John B.

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PARWICH CROWN GREEN BOWLS CLUB

Only one league match this week because of the Greenaway Competition, and judging by the result of the one we played it was just as well.

Matlock Tuesday bowls league.
Away – Matlock Golf Club – 12 August.

Perhaps what we should have done was to challenge the opposition to a round of golf instead of bowls; we surely could not have done any worse. We only managed to win one game and that was our redoubtable pair Edith and Rick and even they struggled. From being second in the division a few matches ago we are plummeting down the table at a great rate of knots. The final score was Golf Club 69 Parwich 43. At least we played well up until the middle of the season. I can’t believe we have only three matches left and then that’s it until next April.

• Next match – Home – Bradwell – 19 August – 6.00pm.

Matlock Thursday Friendly League.
Greenaway Charity Competition – 7 August.

As I mentioned last week this Competition is to try to raise much needed funds for the Greenaway Centre in Darley Dale. The weather is usually very kind to us and this year was no exception, it only rained very lightly for a short time. Our members have done well in past years, and have won the shield on quite a few occasions. Not to be this year though. You are given a partner for the Competition so it is very much the luck of the draw. Both Rick M and Ian J and Val K (playing together) were knocked out in the semi – final. Better luck next year hopefully. The Charity however will benefit from a shed load of money thanks to the Bowlers digging deep.

• Next match – Away – Hope Works, Hope. – 21 August.

We are playing our Round Robin Club competition this Sunday, starting at 10.30 at Parsons Croft. You are welcome to join us any time during the day.

John B.

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PARWICH CROWN GREEN BOWLS CLUB

Why do people take things so literally, we only wanted to lose the occasional match not to disappear into a losing spiral.  Well at least we won one match this week.

Matlock Tuesday bowls league.
Home – Youlgrave – 5 Aug.

When we played at Youlgrave earlier in the year we played in a thunderstorm, one of the few times this year when this has occurred. It even tried to rain here this week, perhaps it would have been better had it done so. Harry B and Val K fought back well to win 21 – 17. Similarly Tony A and Dennis E lost narrowly 21 – 16. After two games only one point in it. The two final games ended 21 – 7 to Youlgrave (enough said) with Rick M and Edith R pulling out all the stops in their usual inimitable fashion to repeat a win for us 21 – 7. We therefore just lost the match by one point 65 – 66.

• Next match – Away – Matlock Golf Club – 12 August – 6.30pm.

Matlock Thursday Friendly League.
Home – Chatsworth A – 7 August.

We had been doing quite well in this league until last week’s painful loss, so we needed to get back into the swing of things this week. Our three doubles pairs did us proud winning two games to one and giving us a lead of 56 to 50.

As you avid readers of this scintillating copy will know our singles players do, more often than not, keep us in the match and quite often give us the winning edge. Thankfully they came through for us again this week winning four of the six games and only narrowly losing a fifth. This gave us a score of 78 – 66. The final overall result was 134 – 116 to Parwich. An excellent turnaround from last week. We had dropped down to fourth in the league after the loss so hopefully this win will give us a chance to go up a place.

No match next week in this league as it is the annual charity game to provide as much money as possible for the Greenaway centre in Darley Dale. Keep your fingers crossed for good weather. In the past Parwich players have done quite well in this competition let’s hope the trend continues.

• Next match – Away – Greenaway Competition – 14 August.

On Sunday we are playing a Club competition – Ladies and Men’s singles. Not sure the weather is going to be good though. See you down at Parsons Croft about 2.00ish. The kettle will be on.

John B.

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