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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.

PARWICH CROWN GREEN BOWLS CLUB

Only one league match this week, but the Robins were twittering, the Greenaway exciting and the league match well find out more below dear reader.

Matlock Tuesday bowls league
Home – Matlock Golf Club – 11 August – 6.30pm.

Having played the Golf Club in the Thursday League last week and been soundly beaten it was imperative that we tried to reverse the result in this League. Obviously the format is very different, as indeed are the players, however to keep pressure on the top two teams, good play was required. The team did not disappoint, Dennis and Clara E will have to be known as the ‘comeback kids’. Last week they were losing really well and then won 18 straight points. This week they were 14 – 3 down and only lost 21 – 19. They just won’t give in. This was the only game we lost. Dawn and Dot played a blinder and won 21 – 8, and Rick and Edith won 21 – 11. Pat and John B also won 21 – 18. When all was added up we won 82 – 58. Bearing in mind the maximum you can score is 84, this was our best result for some time. We were 25 points behind the second team in the Division so dependent on results we might close the gap a bit. Cross everything next week as we are playing the top of the league and on their patch.

• Next match- Away – Hathersage – 18 August – 6.15pm.

Matlock Thursday Friendly League

No league match this week, but a great replacement the Greenaway Charity Competition. The Greenaway centre in Darley Dale does marvellous work for people less able than us. If you need that old chair re-caned or some printing done then that’s the place to go. In the past Parwich players have done well in the competition with the likes of Ron Birch and John B winning. This year we came close again. John B was knocked out in the second round. Tony A got to the quarter final, but Rick M (he who plays with Edith) got all the way to the final playing with Phil Meacham from the Hazelwood club. They were eventually beaten, but at least little Parwich was nearly there again. Next year perhaps? The main winner as always was the Greenaway Centre who will benefit from over £1000 raised on the day. Now that is a result.

• Next match – Home – Wirksworth – 20 August – 1.45pm.

Last Sunday the Robins were rocking again, particularly in the guise if Rick M. You can’t keep a good man down. Rick won the main competition for the second year running with Tony A winning the Plate side. Well done the pair of you. More Robins of some description next year no doubt.

John B.