PARWICH CROWN GREEN BOWLS CLUB

Having made a really great start to the new season, you can be sure something will come and bite you with a vengeance on the backside and it did this week.

Matlock Tuesday bowls league.
Home – Matlock Bath- 14 April.

Another beautiful evening down at Parsons Croft and the team responded to it. Rick M and Tony A led the way with a spectacular 21 – 6 win. Our Edith had been on holiday during the first week, but she made up for that while partnered with the on fire Dot H winning 21 – 7. Can this great form continue I hear you ask, too right it can. Parwich won the remaining two games in style giving us a clean sweep and maximum points 84 – 37. We don’t manage too many maximums so we need to soak in the reality.

• Next match- Home- Matlock Park – 21 April- 6.30pm

Matlock Thursday Friendly League.
Away – Youlgrave – 16 April- 1.45pm.

So having played on the Old Baseball Ground last week we played on a sheet on glass. We have not been to Youlgrave for a while in the Tuesday League due to their being in a higher division. Little did we realise that not only did you need to walk very carefully in case you slipped on the ice but you needed a Sherpa to guide you over the hump in the middle of the green. Nobody had told us that an elephant had been buried in the green sometime time ago! As you knowledgeable folks will know we very often struggle in the doubles games, well we struggled in everything today. Pat B and Harry B played a stormer to only lose 18 – 21. Sue A and John H tried all the way but in the end succumbed 15 – 21. The final game also saw us lose 21 – 8. Youlgrave 63, Parwich 41. Now for the singles fight back.

Bearing in mind that the maximum points you get in the singles is 90, we just made it past halfway. We only managed to get to double figures in two games. In the end we were put out of our misery losing 90 – 50, one to chalk up to experience. A total result of Youlgrave 152, Parwich 91 thanks to the elephant under the green. I wonder how we will get on when we play them on our patch?

• Next match – Home – Bradwell – 23 April – 1.45pm.

Don’t forget that we will be having a little social get together at Parsons Croft on Sunday afternoon for new members and anybody else who would like to come down. Even if you don’t want to play you can get a great piece of homemade cake and a cup of tea. See you there.

John B.

PARWICH CROWN GREEN BOWLS CLUB

Only on very few occasions do things really come together as you would have hoped. The first week of the new bowls season and the sun is shining and to cap it all we won both matches and we have three new members. It can’t get much better than that can it? Suffice it to say it fetches a lump to your throat.

Matlock Tuesday bowls league.
Away – Bradwell – 7 April.

It really is a very picturesque green at Bradwell, but unfortunately somebody put the wrong sand on the green. A bit like British Rail with leaves on the line and virtually killed the grass. The only consolation was that it was the same for both teams. Anyway on the equivalent of the old Baseball Ground at Derby we took to the green. Dot H and Pat B were the stars of the show winning 21-6. Two of our other pairs came home winners by 21-11. The final score was Bradwell 49 Parwich 72. What about that?

• Next match- Home- Matlock Bath- 14 April- 6.00pm

Matlock Thursday Friendly League.
Home – Hathersage- 9 April- 1.45pm.

So we had a real disaster in this league last year, we got promoted to the higher division! It’s bad enough having to play in the lower divisions, but playing with the elite. Anyway fortunately John H our green keeper extraordinaire had put the correct sand on our green and it looked great. A beautiful emerald green. The bowls played by us was fairly good also. Dot H staring again in the doubles with John B winning 21-10. Dennis and Clara E losing by only one point 20-21, giving us a score of Parwich 49 Hathersage 52 after the doubles.

As followers of this wonderful editorial will know we usually do quite well in the singles games, but in the higher division? In the six singles games Pat B shone again and so did Val K both winning 15-10. Tony A also played well to win 15-12. The result was in doubt right up until the final singles finished with our captain John H winning 15-13. In all we won five of the six games giving us a score of 80-74 and an overall score of Parwich 129, Hathersage 126. Can’t be bad.

• Next match – Away – Youlgrave- 16 April – 1.45pm.

John B.