Brodericks see bid for glory end early
National Championship Finals mixed pairs at Northampton & District IBC. Tina and Paul Broderick from Wellingborough V Linda Bryson and Chris Cook from Weymouth, bowls action. Pictured: Tina Broderick, Paul Broderick and Linda Bryson.
Paul and Tina Broderick saw their hopes of winning the national indoor mixed pairs title end in the second round at the finals event at Northampton & District.
The Wellingborough pair were the first county players in action at the championships which are at Northampton for the next three weeks.
The event was opened by the Mayor of Northampton, Cllr Jamie Lane, before the chairman of Northampton & District, David Masters, handed the green over to the president of the English Indoor Association, Lindsay Warner.
During the days of the championships at Northampton, five national titles will be decided.
And the Brodericks began their bid to repeat their 2010 triumph in the mixed pairs with a 23-16 win over Linda Bryson/Chris Cook (Moonfleet).
But their challenge ended a few hours later as they lost 19-16 to Amy Banes/Mark Johnson (Swale).
Tina Broderick will hope for better fortune in the over-50s ladies triples when she and Wellingborough team-mates Joyce George and Di Allen begin their challenge against the rink of Sue Osborne (Bristol) tomorrow (1.30pm start).
The first county interest in the men’s national finals is also tomorrow when the Kingsthorpe rink of Pete Maloy/Jim McKee/Mick Sharpe takes on the Grimwood rink of Colin Malcolm in the over-50s triples (9am start).
However, Sharpe and McKee will not be at the finals of the main draw triples after they and club-mate Andrew Manton lost 18-14 to Rob White/Alan Ramscar/Dominic Graham (Northampton & District) in the area final.
In the inter-club Denny Plate semi-final, Kingsthorpe will play Copeland at Falcon on April 14 (9.30am).
Meanwhile, the County under-25s have rescheduled their final against Devon in the National Double-Rink for February 25 at Melton & District (1.30pm start).
County team: Rink one: M Wordingham, C Johnson, C Height, J Walker. Rink two: S Gamble, R Knox, C Cinato, M Pownall. Reserve: A Linnell.
The men’s county competitions are at the quarter-final stage.
In the pairs, Dave Love/Wayne Gregory (Wellingborough) are into the last four while in the triples, there were wins for the rinks of Ross Knox (Desborough) and Mike Arnold (Kingsthorpe).
Connor Cinato (Desborough) and David Walker (Kingsthorpe) are through to the semi-finals of the under-25s singles.
In the Tipler Trophy, there were wins for the rinks of Tony Burns (Kingsthorpe) and Brian Sherwood (Rushden).
THE newly-formed Bowls Northamptonshire has elected its new officers for the executive committee which will act as an overall administrative umbrella, under which two sections, one for each gender, will handle the day-to-day organisation of the sport in the county.
Executive committee chairman: Ken Court (Brackley). Administrator for Bowls Northamptonshire: Jan Hunt (Irchester). Ladies president: Eleanor Winters (Corby Forest). Ladies senior vice-president: Heather Lack (Burton Latimer). Ladies junior vice-president: Anita Petrucci (Abington). Men’s president: John Chester (Wellingborough). Men’s senior vice-president: Geoff Hunt (Irchester). Men’s junior vice-president: John Cooper (Burton Latimer). Ladies section secretary: Sharon Tansley (Kingsthorpe). Ladies match secretary: Jan Hunt. Men’s section secretary: Laurie Harrison (Earls Barton). Men’s match secretary: Richard Somerton (Brackley).
NORTHANTS men were beaten 144-99 in a friendly at Daventry.
Results (skips only, Northants first): Rink one: A Watts 14, M Lambert 18. Rink two: N Gibb 11, D Francis 35. Rink three: R Somerton 19, A Lewis 17. Rink four: B Sherwood 17, H Craig 26. Rink five: B Sullivan 21, D Miller 23. Rink six: B Jones 17, D McCallum 25.
The County men are back in action on February 22 with a friendly against Warwickshire at Northampton & District (2pm).
Rink one: J Diver, J Lillyman, B Carr, B Langton. Rink two: D Cooper, D Hatton, T Brown, B Sherwood. Rink three: R Miller, R Hayes, G Harris, R Somerton. Rink four: S Lowe, D Scott, B Sullivan, N Gibb. Rink five: K Howlett, P Ashbrook, A Watts, T Weston. Rink six: W Clelland, D Garland, D Thurlow, R Jones. Reserves: J Whiting, G Hunt, M Horsham, B Brown, B Bailey.
Following a highly successful trial season for the new Town League Bowls Competition between the public greens leagues, plans are going ahead for the 2012 season.
On Thursday February 23 at 7.30pm there will be a meeting at the Boys Brigade Old Boys club on St Andrews Road. Representatives of teams interested from any of the four Public Greens leagues are welcome to attend to discuss the competition.
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