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PARWICH CROWN GREEN BOWLS CLUB

Last match of the season in one League and second last in the other. Considering the mistake of getting promoted last year it has been an enjoyable season, most of the time.

Matlock Tuesday bowls league.
Away – Ashwood Park – 1 September – 5.45pm.

As the nights draw in the start of the closing matches gets earlier and earlier and we had only just finished lunch before we had to play! The players at Ashwood Park are really a good lot, but they do need to train their midges, we got mauled to bits. Thankfully the bowls was not so much of a mauling. Both teams won two games each with Tony A and John B winning 21 – 12 and Edith and Rick also winning by the same margin. Our other two pairs did not fare so well and because Ashwood won the games by a greater margin than us the final score was Ashwood 66, Parwich 64. We had been tussling with Whitworth Park for third place in the league and this score unfortunately dropped us down to fourth place, the best position we have achieved for a long time.

Matlock Thursday Friendly League.
Away – Bakewell – 3 September – 1.45pm

As you followers of this fabulous sports reporting will know Bakewell’s green is a long and thin oblong with not much crown, but lots of small humps and hollows and their player know every blade of grass. Our doubles pairs did really well however, but still we trailed Bakewell by 58 to 46 with only Tony and Sue A giving us a good win.

The singles were shared three games each with Dawn winning 15 – 3 and Edith 15 – 8. Where would we be without them? The singles score finished 70 points each with the overall result a win for Bakewell 128 – 116. It’s not very clear if parachute payments are made for relegated teams like they have in the Premier Football League, I’ll make enquiries and let you know after our final match of the season next week.

Last match – Home – Matlock Park – 10 September – 1.45pm.

John B

PARWICH CROWN GREEN BOWLS CLUB

 We are rapidly approaching the sharp end of the season in the Leagues that we play in. As you avid readers of this stuff will know the Thursday League has become the ‘Thursday after the day before League’, however we are still in with a shout of promotion from the Tuesday League. You also obviously missed the fabulous sports report for last week’s matches, but grandchildren do get in the way don’t they. However because of that you will have to put up with a double helping this week.

Matlock Tuesday bowls league.

Away – Hathersage – 18 August – 6.30pm.

Top of the league and away from home today, it was a case of damage limitation if we wanted to keep in touch with possible promotion. Dawn A and Tony A had a great win 21 – 18. Not to be outdone Rick and Edith also won 21 – 18. When results like this occur there is always a ‘but’ and it was that we lost the next two games by a considerable margin. The final score was Hathersage 78, Parwich 59. Even after this result we have still hung on to third place, but now we were very much in third. More than twenty points behind the second team instead of 6.

Home – Chatsworth – 25 August – 6.30pm

After last week we needed to try and get a really good score, and a good score we did get. We won three games out of 4 with the dynamic duo Dawn A and Dot H winning 21 – 2! Matching this score Rick and Edith won 21 – 6. Last but by no means least Harry B and John B won 21 – 17. The final score was Parwich 76 – 46. This score could close the gap which opened up after last week. Only one more match to go in this League. Watch this space for next week’s nail biting finally!

Next match- Away – Ashwood Park – 1 September – 6.00pm.

Matlock Thursday Friendly League.

Home – Wirksworth – 20 August – 1.45pm

It was good to see that our doubles pairs won this week even if it was by only two points, but what a win by Sue A and Harry B 21 – 4. The singles matches were equally tight with both teams scoring 71 points each. Tony A leading the way winning 15 – 5 and Edith 15 – 9. The final score was a win to Parwich 119 – 117.

Away – Hope Works – 27 August – 1. 45pm

Top of the League and they really made their superiority count. It would not be fitting to dwell too much on the score as the death throes of our venture into the top division come to a dispiriting end. Suffice it to say we lost with dignity! Next year we will be in the lower division and our sojourn into higher echelons is over, for now. Only two more games to go.

Next match – Away – Bakewell – 3 September – 1.45pm.

John B.