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We had a really good Club game last Saturday, the mixed doubles competition. After some close matches the Dawn and Rick pairing came out on top. Congratulations. The weekly matches provided some close and some not so close games. The one pervading aspect however was the weather. It was freezing, brass monkeys flying round all over the place.

Tuesday League

April 25 – Home – Whitworth Park.

After a couple of matches Whitworth were riding high in the league. The evening was absolutely freezing and you needed to keep moving to stop frost bite setting in, but your team are made of strong stuff! Dawn and Sue A got us off to a great start winning 21 – 10, at the same time Pat B and Harry B were doing even better winning 21 – 7. Inevitably Rick and Edith kept up their usual standard with a 21 – 10 win. What a pair. Last but by no means least Tony and John B fought off their opponents to win 21 – 18. Only very occasionally do you manage to win all four games and in our case once a season if you are lucky. Overall the final score was Parwich 84, Whitworth 45. After three matches we are second in the division, it’s all downhill from here.

Because there are only 11 teams in the division we have a blank week next week. Watch out for us the week after.

Next Match – Bakewell – Home – 9 May 6.30pm.

Thursday League

April 27 – Away  – Baslow.

The league had decided last year to impose penalties on teams who fielded less than 9 players in matches, deducting 25 points for each player less than 9. Now bearing in mind we only have 16 members, this week 4 people were away, One has a broken wrist, another a very bad back and finally another with a more urgent appointment. Now you maths graduates will have concluded 16 take way 7 makes us on the cusp of losing points before we begin. However your trusty team battled through freezing temperatures and biting winds. Two great wins in the doubles, Dawn and Pat B streaking (not literally, it was too cold) home 21 – 7 and Harry B and Rick winning equally impressively 21 – 12. With the 14 points won by our third pair we were leading 56 – 40 after the doubles.

So having got us off to a great, if somewhat unexpected, start we would romp away, as usual in the singles. Whoops, the opposition forgot to read the script, we lost in the singles! Thankfully we did have a couple of good wins via Dawn and Rick, and others, although losing, got close. The final singles score 80 to Baslow, 68 to Parwich. We still just won by 124 – 120. What an effort by the brave, but frozen, few!

Next match – Away – Hathersage – 4 May – 1.45pm.

John B.

PARWICH CROWN GREEN BOWLS CLUB

Having got off to a reasonable start this season and getting to grips with the new go faster equipment, we were all looking forward to the second week on the green. Shame a couple of wheels fell off.

Tuesday League
April 18 – Away – Matlock Golf Club.
Why is it that against certain Clubs you can really struggle and others seem to suit? Unfortunately the Golf Club are, for us, the struggling variety. Although we won two of the four games and only missed winning a third by one point, the remaining game was a real choker for our pair. Sometimes what ever you try comes off sometimes not, it happens. The result was a win for the Golf Club 72 – 63. We will have to try and get our revenge later in the year.
Next Match – Whitworth Park – Home – 25 April 6.30pm.

Thursday League
April 20 – Home  – Youlgrave.
At least we were able to play Youlgrave on our green first. Their green as you may recall has an elephant buried underneath it. So we had what may be described as a more level playing field by having the match here. Having said that a crown green bowls green by it’s very name ain’t level. Anyway we won one of the doubles games, with Edith and Sue doing us proud. Unfortunately we came second in the other two games and trailed by 38 – 54.
In the six singles games we won 5 out of the 6 games. Dawn A, bringing the power of the new  ‘Blue Meany’ bowls to bear, had a handsome 15 – 8 win, matched by Edith and John H. Top of the tree however was Tony A who won 15 – 5. The singles score finished 83 – 56 to Parwich. The overall result was Parwich 121, Youlgrave 110.
Next match – Away – Baslow – 27 April – 1.45pm.

We are also having another Club match on Saturday 22 April – a mixed doubles – come down to Parsons Croft around 2.30pm to have a look. (and a cup of tea if you fancy it)

John B