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It has been so nice playing bowls over the past few weeks the weather has been so good to us, the bowls hasn’t been bad either.

Tuesday League.

Home – Wirksworth – 5 June – 6.00pm

We always have a tight match against Wirksworth, they are a much bigger club than us, but we seem to be able to hold our own. For once Rick wasn’t playing with Edith but it did not make a lot of difference with Dot stepping up to the mark. They meandered to a win 21 – 17. Not so good for Dennis E and Sue A who try as they did could not get to grips with the Wirksworth pair losing 7 – 21. Fortunately Pat and John B managed, I know not how, to reverse the result by winning 21 – 7. Did anybody actually see if the had opponents? Finally it was down to Clara E and Tony A to bring home the bacon. Talk about a nail biter, they won on the last end 21 – 20. What a pair. Final score Parwich 70, Wirksworth 65.

Believe it or not dear reader this result puts us top of the division! Can we stay there??

Next match – Away – Matlock Golf Club – 12 June – 6.00pm.

Thursday Friendly League.

Home – Chatsworth A – 7 June – 1.45pm.

Top of the table clash today. Chatsworth are top of the division and Parwich were third or fourth. How will we do? If the doubles pairs were anything to go by, not very well. We unfortunately we did not win a game. Our best result was Clara E and Liz H losing against Chatsworth’s best pair 21 – 14. A really good effort.

We needed to play really well to make up the 34 point deficit after the doubles and well we did play. John H led the way with a win 15 – 3, followed by Dawn, Edith and Sue A winning 6, 9, and 11 respectively. Our other two singles players although losing made good scores also. Would we have done enough to make up the score? Although we more than halved the deficit to 13 it was not enough so we came second, Chatsworth 122, Parwich 109. I think this defeat will drop us down a few places.

Next Match – Home – Chatsworth B – 14 June – 1.45pm

John B.

PARWICH CROWN GREEN BOWLS CLUB

Can’t remember a better winning week for our bowls club. We nearly got to perfection in terms of scoring, not sure about the look of us though!

Tuesday League.

Away – Bakewell – 29 May – 6.00pm

As you may recall Bakewell’s green is very narrow and thin. Evidently there are no hard and fast rules on size other than it should be between 30 – 60 yards in old money. Wouldn’t want to play on the 60 yard green though, you would need to be in the world’s strong man/woman category. Anyway what ever the size we played a blinder. Captain Dawn and Frances strutting their stuff winning 21 – 7. Harry and Sue storming home 21 – 9. Even Tony and John B managed a win 21 – 17. Rick and Edith obviously wanted to get as many ‘ends’ as possible, each pair winning one shot at a time. They eventually won 21 – 15. A full house for Parwich 84, Bakewell 48. We were second in the division so this should keep us up there.

Next match – Home – Wirksworth – 5 June – 6.00pm.

Thursday Friendly League.

Home – Matlock Park – 31 May – 1.45pm.

Debut appearance for Stuart this week and what a debut it was. Playing with Frances (she can be bossy) they were trailing 8 nil, but what a team they made in the end winning 21 – 16. Trust me it will not be this easy every week. Dennis and Clara also had what must be one of their best ever wins 21 – 3. What a result. Last but most certainly not least Ian and Liz completed a hat trick of wins 21 – 15. What a start, Parwich 64, Matlock 34.

On to the singles and although we had a couple of players missing the outcome was never in doubt. We won 5 out of the 6 games dropping only 3 points. Parwich 87, Matlock 67. Final score Parwich 150, Matlock 101, only 3 off the maximum. We were about third or fourth in the division so this should keep us up there.

Next Match – Away – Chatsworth – 7 June – 1.45pm.

John B