Parwich Crown Green Bowls Club

Both our matches this week were away and against teams who either play on tricky greens or are considerably bigger than us. We did well against the ‘big’ club, but not so good on the tricky green.

Matlock Tuesday League.
Away – Matlock Bath – 9 July.

We had already lost to Matlock Bath on our green and their green is shaped like a fifty pence piece and about the same size. It was also so fast you only had to drop your wood and it finished up in the Derwent! To cap it all there was a sight that was akin to flying pigs or fairies at the bottom of the garden, Edith and Rick LOST, not by much (only three points), but a loss none the less. Still we have to let them lose every now and again, otherwise they would be unbearable! The upshot of this debacle was that we only won one game, well done Dennis E and Harry B. The final score was Matlock 79 Parwich 65.

• Next match – Home – Bakewell – 16 July 6.30pm.

Matlock Thursday Friendly League.
Away – Tideswell – 11 July.

This is such a nice place to play bowls, the outlook is great and the facilities are equally good. Unfortunately our Achilles-heel showed again today. We did not play at all well in the doubles and finished up 30 points behind our hosts. The singles came to our rescue with Harry B leading the way by winning 15 – 0. We managed to win a further three singles and lost one more by only one point turning our poor start into quite a final rally. In the end we lost by 125 to 114. We were exactly half way in the league in sixth place. Let us hope we manage to stay in that position.

• Next match – Home – Baslow – 18 July – 1.45pm.

Sunday brings another friendly match this time against Ashbourne Park. As always these light-hearted matches are great, with good fun and even better food. Come along to Parsons Croft at around 2.00pm and have a look on what should be a lovely sunny day.

John B.

Parwich Crown Green Bowls Club

After last week’s dismal results we managed to put a couple of good matches together this week.

Matlock Tuesday League.
Home – Bradwell – 2 July.

The weather was not good for tonight’s match. We were only playing bowls what must it have been like for the runners in the Wakes Week hill race? Thankfully suitably adorned in thermal wellies and Long John’s, it is only July after all, we battled on!

Although we shared the games two each our losses were not as great as our opposition. In one game Dawn and Clara only lost by one point and of course we do have our Edith ably assisted by Rick who won 21 – 7. The final score finished Parwich 75 Bradwell 63. This win will hopefully lift us up a place, possibly two in the League.

• Next match – Away – Matlock Bath – 9 July 6.30pm.

Matlock Thursday Friendly League.
Home – Whitworth – 4 July.

It was a shame we only had a couple of people who came over to the Green on Wednesday night during the fun and games over on Parsons Croft. It is a pity that nobody seems to have any enthusiasm to join the Bowls Club. Anyway, we played again and did really well. In the doubles we only won one game, but still only finished one shot down over the three games. In the singles we came into our own winning four of the six games. Edith again had a stormer, winning 15 – 1. Felt quite sorry for her opponent. You should have tried harder Edith and won 15 – 0! Whitworth Park are a really nice bunch of people, but it was still good to beat them 134 – 109.

• Next match – Away – Tideswell – 11 July – 1.45pm.

On Sunday we have a Club competition down at Parsons Croft at 2.00pm. Come down and have a look.

John B.