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Last week of the season, no more twaddle to read. We did achieve a memorable place in the Thursday League though. We were in top position albeit for one week!

Matlock Tuesday League.
Home – Ashwood Park – 6 September – 6.00pm.

Ashwood were in a very solid third place in the league with the possibility of going second. Dot H, holding John B’s hand very firmly, guided the pair to a 21 – 18 win. Dennis E and Sue A unfortunately could not keep the momentum going and went down 12 – 21. Back came Dawn A and Tony A with a resounding win 21 – 11. Only Rick and Edith to go unfortunately they came second 17 – 21 again. Final result was another draw 71 points each. Probably a fair result. I think that this will keep us mid table.

Matlock Thursday League.
Away – Matlock Bath – 8 September – 1.45pm.

So there we were top of the league! All we had to do was to keep our nerve and play our little socks off.

Matlock’s green is the shape of a fifty pence piece and not much bigger. No problems with corner to corner jacks. Although we only won one doubles game we were 46 – 58 down. We shared the singles games three each, although our scores were better than Matlock’s. After the singles we won 77 – 72 not quite enough to get us a win. With Bakewell, the league’s best club playing at home our chances of retaining top spot are slim. Still to come second is a really good result. Final score Matlock 130, Parwich 123. Even if the team in third place got a maximum score we cannot be beaten for second, so first division here we come.

Have a good winter every one and be prepared for more fabulous crown green bowling next year. Why not come and join us.

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If you think that things are tight at the top you should see what is happening in the riveting world of bowls, you couldn’t make it up if you tried. Can we make it to third in the league, will we finish top of the league the permutations are too endlessly wondrous to contemplate!

Matlock Tuesday League.
Away – Chatsworth – 30 August – 6.00pm.

Chatsworth are second bottom of the league and us only 7 points from third, piece of cake. My dad always told me there was no such thing as a certainty, how right he was. The wonderful Edith and Rick, fresh from their magnificent win in the 2016 Tarmac Trophy tournament, were our only winners, 21 – 10. I keep telling you they are good. Harry B and Sue A came up short by the smallest of margins, losing 20 – 21. Dawn A and Tony A also more than held their own losing by 21 – 17. With a further loss in the last game the result was Chatsworth 73, Parwich 70. Not sure if 70 points will even be enough to keep us in sixth place, let alone push us up a place or two. Only one more match left to see if we can climb up a bit. As only the first two get promoted to the higher division our chance are slim, but we are still battling on.

• LAST MATCH – Home – Ashwood Park – 6 September – 5.45pm.

Matlock Thursday League.

With last week’s match a wash out we had to play twice this week, could we cope with the pressure!

Away – Bradwell – 31 August – 1.45.

We needed to get off to a good start in order to keep us in second place in the league. Unfortunately we conspired to lose all three doubles very well, Bradwell 63, Parwich 37. Could the singles get us out of the hole we managed to fall in, you bet they could. We won 5 out of the 6 games and only lost the sixth by three points, Bradwell 67, Parwich 87. Again you need your calculators handy to work out that this was not quite enough to win. Final score Bradwell 130, Parwich 124.The top of the league, Bakewell, were now 56 points ahead of us. Our next opponents, Bakewell!!

Home – Bakewell – 1 September – 1.45.

Keep telling you, you should have been there; you could have cut the tension with a knife. Because of injuries and holidays we only had ten players. Inspired captaincy in selecting who should play which games was needed and who was to play twice. Did I tell you our captain, Tony A, is inspired? Not only did we win all three doubles games but we won 63 points to 38. Could we keep up the phenomenally brilliant play in the singles? With only one game to play we had won the first 5 games. Rick our ever faithful great bowler would do the job. Horror of horrors Rick lost. The result was passed to the world doping agency and all was found to be in order (Russian testers I think). The match scrutinisers got their heads together. And verified that the final score was (Can you feel the tension its worse than waiting for the synchronised swimming results) Parwich 147, Bakewell 88, a win by 59 points. This means that we have gone into CHAMPIONSHIP PLACE! by three points. What a disaster, we will be promoted next year to face the likes of illustrious teams, such as Tideswell and Hazelwood! Only one more match to go. (Bet we blow it, or could tiny Parwich become Crown Green bowls Leicester City?).

• LAST MATCH – Away – Matlock Bath – 8 September – 1.45pm

John B.

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After last week’s heroics by the members in the Greenaway it was back to business as usual. Of course we did have the excitement of the drone. I can’t get over how small the pilots are these days. Everybody survived and the weather was glorious.

Matlock Tuesday League.
Away – Matlock Golf Club – 16 August – 6.30pm.

We always struggle against the Golf Club and this match was no different. We had played out a draw on our green so we wanted to try to get the extra point, as it was we needed more carrots as the match ended in the dark. Fortunately the Golf Club being the rich people they are have got flood lights. Anyway we shared the games two each with one of the Golf Club players, playing out of her skin. Well done Marian. As it was Harry B and John B had one of their better outings winning 21 – 7. Dawn A and Tony A playing with miners helmets on won 21 – 18. Close as the other games were the final score was a win for the Golf Club 67 – 65. Hopefully we won’t slip down a place.

• Next match – Home – Whitworth Park – 23 August – 6.30pm.

Matlock Thursday League.
Home – Youlgrave – 18 August – 1.45.

Despite still not managing to get a camel buried under the green and the organisation of an intimidating drone flying overhead we only just beat Youlgrave. The doubles games ended one point ahead for Youlgrave with Sue A and Clara E losing by one point. Youlgrave 52, Parwich 51.

Thankfully our inimitable singles players won all but one of the six games. Tony A winning 15 -8. The remaining games were very tight, Dot H just getting home 15 – 14 after a great fight back. Parwich 132, Youlgrave 124. Our average score in this league is 130 points per match so we were right on target. We are still in second place in the league and unless we can start losing well we are going to get promoted.

• Next match – Away – Bradwell – 25 August – 1.45 pm

Good matches last Sunday with Edith and Tony lifting their respective crowns as champions. This Sunday the Nadin Cup starts at 2.00pm. Why not come along.

Still think we should offer to play in the Olympics.

John B.

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A bit of a different week for us this week with only one league match taking place and the Greenaway charity competition, however, you really must come down to Parsons Croft to see the players that we have in our great club. To use my grand children’s phrase ‘they are awesome!’

Matlock Tuesday League.
Home – Matlock Bath – 9 August – 6.30pm.

Having stuttered a bit in this league we managed to put some really good bowls together against Matlock. Of the four games we won three comfortably with Pat B and Tony A leading the way 21 – 5. Even John B wonderfully partnered by Dot H won 21 – 12 (truth be told it was Dot who did the damage for us!). This score was matched by Harry B and Sue A. Wonder of wonders the only pair to lose was Rick M and Edith. Well they do occasionally have to lose so that the opposition don’t cry every week. Mind you they only just lost 18 – 21. The final result was Parwich 81, Matlock 50. Having slipped in the league, this may bring us up a place, possibly two. In view of who we play next week it’s just as well we had a good win. We will need it.

• Next match – Away – Matlock Golf Club – 16 August – 6.30pm.

Greenaway Charity Competition – Wirksworth – 11 August.

Now you must bear in mind that this is open to all players in the Thursday League. 5 people from Parwich entered the competition which is a doubles game. Everybody plays one game and the winners go to the main draw, with the losers going into the ‘consolation’ draw. Now again bearing in mind we only had 5 players, Ian J partnered by Alan B from Wirksworth got to the semi final of the ‘consolation’ draw to be narrowly beaten. Similarly Edith, playing in her first Greenaway was also narrowly beaten in the semi final. However, Dawn A also playing her first Greenaway, partnered by Phil M from Hazelwood in the main draw just lost in the final! I tell you if Crown Green bowls was in the Olympics Parwich could represent Team GB. I might even put the idea to the I O C! The main winner of course was the Greenaway Charity with over £1000 going to the workshop in Darley Dale.

Back to normal next week and we are still looking for a spare camel as we are entertaining Youlgrave.

• Next league match – Home – Youlgrave – 18 August – 1.45 pm

Sunday is a men’s and ladies’ club competition so why not come down and see potential Olympic athletes play. (You are allowed to dream.)

John B.

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Again we had two really good wins this week even though we didn’t manage to get a camel under the green for Youlgraves visit. Good turn out as well in the Square Robin club competition with Tony A and Dawn A taking the honours. If you don’t know what a square robin looks like you will have to wait until next year.

Matlock Tuesday League.
Home –Youlgrave – 26 July – 6.30pm.

Having been comprehensively beaten at Youlgrave earlier in the season, and following on from last weeks dismal result we had to try and get back a little confidence. Thankfully we did. Rick and Edith showing the way winning 21 – 10. Dawn A and Dot H also doing a grand job to win 21 – 13. The husband and wife pair Tony and Sue A showed that marital harmony works well on the bowls green winning 21 – 14. We won’t mention Harry B and John B losing superbly well 21 – 11. What a Pair! You will have worked out that we won 74 – 58. At least this result made up a little for the loss at Youlgrave. We had slipped to seventh in the league so this win should stop us from dropping any lower.

• Next match – Away – Wirksworth – 2 August – 6.30pm.

Matlock Thursday League
Home – Matlock Park – 28 July – 1.45pm.

We keep doing it, winning that is and the doubles pairs seem to be getting the hang of it as well, two good wins and a close loss. John H and Clara E winning 21 – 10 and Ian J and Liz H coming home 21 – 11. After the doubles we were in the lead 58 – 42. Can’t be bad.

Having played a blinder on Tuesday Tony and Sue A did it again today each winning 15 – 6. Dawn A and Edith R also won comprehensively, but the best result was Rick M winning 15 – 0. This gave us a singles score of 82 – 39. The overall score was Parwich 140, Matlock Park 81. This I am sure will cement our second place in the league. Onward and upward as they say.

• Next match – Away – Hathersage – 4 August – 1.45 pm

John B.

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Apologies to our army of supporters who were expecting us to play Youlgrave this week, but yours truly jumped a week on the fixture list. However, those eagle eyed Blog peeps spotted my deliberate error and corrected it. Clever people aren’t they?

Matlock Tuesday League.
Away -19 July – 6.30pm – Bradwell.

Of late we cannot have any complaints about the weather; it has been glorious, shame about the bowls in the Tuesday League though. We were well and truly beaten by Bradwell. At the time of writing Bradwell were well and truly bottom of the league though the way they despatched us you would have thought the opposite. We only managed to win one game and thank goodness for that with Harry B and Rick M scoring 21 – 9. It would have been a major loss, but for those 21 points. John B and Clara E scrambled to 12, with Pat B and Sue A getting a further 11. In the final game we could only muster 8. The totals were Bradwell 72, Parwich 52. Still as I said the weather was glorious! We definitely play Youlgrave next week so we are still looking for a camel to stick under the green.

• Next match – Home – Youlgrave – 26 July – 6.30pm.

Matlock Thursday League
Home – Wirksworth – 21 July – 1.45pm.

Having come a deserved cropper on Tuesday night we needed to ‘up our game’ as they say for this match. Again great weather and even better bowls. Rick M and Harry B carrying on where they left off on Tuesday won 21 – 1. What a start. Although our other pairs could not match this result they did play really well. Liz H and Sue A coming back from 9 -1 down to get us 16 valuable points. Ian J and Clara E did have a bit of an off day but still got 11. The score after doubles was 48 – 43 Parwich in the lead.

In the singles John H and Tony A led the way with 15 – 6 and 15 – 2 wins respectively. The remainder of our singles players managed to restrict their opponents to single figures, although we did lose one game. The total score in the singles was Parwich 82, Wirksworth 43. Final score 130 – 86 to Parwich. Still riding high in second place in the league.

• Next match – Home – Matlock Park – 1.45 pm

Another good club event on Sunday, the square robin. Come and see what one looks like down at Parsons Croft at around 10.30 am.

John B.

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Well you see we had two cracking wins this week. The team we played in the Tuesday League are ten points ahead of us and in the Thursday League opponents are a little behind us.

Matlock Tuesday League.
Home -12 July – 6.30pm – Whitworth Park.

We shared the games this week and all four were very keenly contested. Dennis and Clara E got back to winning ways by 21 -17. Ever dependable Edith and Rick stormed home 21 – 11 which in fact was the deciding factor in the overall result. Although Dawn A and John B tried hard they were well beaten by the Whitworth pair 19 – 21 and the same applied to Pat B and Harry B, just beaten 18 -21. The final result was Parwich 79, Whitworth 70. As you maths geniuses will note we won by 9 points so we are now one point behind Whitworth.

Next week we entertain Youlgrave they of elephant under the green fame. Has anybody got a camel lurking about somewhere that we could bury under our green before next week?

• Next match – Away – Bradwell B – 19 July – 6.30pm.

Matlock Thursday League
Home – Bradwell – 14 July – 1.45pm.

The Thursday League Juggernaut rolls on! Really good wins in the doubles with two wins and a close second. Liz H and Sue A coming home 21 -14 and Dawn A and Ian J also winning 21 -19. With the close loss we were 61 – 54 ahead.

Five wins out of six in the singles with John H and Dawn A both winning 15 – 9. The singles score finished up Parwich 83, Bradwell 67. The combined score was Parwich 144, Bradwell 121. Bearing in mind the maximum score you can achieve is 154, we were only 10 below this.

• Next match – Away – Wirksworth A – 21 July – 1.45pm

We have a club competition on Sunday, open doubles, but I’m sure a piece of cake could be in the offing.

John B.

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At least we managed to lose one game this week, but it wasn’t a very good loss. In the other league we won. Perhaps next year we should have had a go in the hill race instead.

Matlock Tuesday League.
Home -5 July – 6.30pm – Cote Heath.

Cote Heath got relegated from the top division last year and have been winning for fun this year. They have some really very good players, but then so do we. The match was shared two games each with the ever reliable Edith and Rick winning 21 – 7. Tony and Sue A also played their little socks off to win 21 – 17. Although our other two pairs lost because we managed to accumulate more points than they did a win was possibly on the cards, and as you know dear reader points mean prizes in crown green bowls. The final score was Parwich 67, Cote Heath 66. Only one point in it, but a win is a win. Following last week’s win we had moved up a place in the division, but I think that this win may well not be sufficient to keep us there.

• Next match – Home – Whitworth Park – 5 July – 6.30pm.

Matlock Thursday League
Away – Chatsworth – 7 July – 1.45pm.

Few we lost! But only just. There were two very close games in the doubles this week with Harry and Audrey B just losing 21 – 20 and Ian J and Clara E losing 21 – 19. After the doubles the score was Chatsworth 63, Parwich 49.

The singles were split three games each with a rare event taking place with Dawn, Edith, and Rick all losing. Fortunately the losses were not that great and the singles score was Parwich 71, Chatsworth 60. Now those of you with a calculator will have worked out that we therefore lost the match 123 – 120. We were in second place in the league; however this loss may drop us down a place or possibly two, which would be useful.

• Next match – Home – Bradwell – 14 July – 1.45pm.

See you down at Parsons Croft on Saturday and perhaps Sunday too when we entertain Hazelwood for a friendly.

John B.

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