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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.

PARWICH CROWN GREEN BOWLS CLUB

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.