Latest noticeboard - (Almost) WEEKLY NEWS (Wk. 22) - by Bob Mansell
Wednesday is the last day for nominations and proposals for the AGM.
REPORT ON HOME GAME AGAINST NOTTINGHAM
Another excellent win for the Lincoln Weekend Friendly Team 183 shots to 113 against our old rivals Nottingham and makes up for their win in October of 120 shots to 155. We welcomed Captain Ann and her team and as they were one player short Marion Williams kindly agreed to play for them. This was very much appreciated by Ann as the rink Marion played for won.
We were fortunate to have reserves Vera Holmes, John Ponwaye and Thelma Bratley who came in place of Anne Doig, Terry Hamlett and Joyce Hackney and hopefully they are now recovered from their various illnesses. Thank you so much to the Reserves; I cannot stress enough how important it is to have reserves available. We welcome Vera Holmes, Conn Beckitt (our junior) and Keith Bell to your first friendly game, which we hope you enjoyed.
The winning rink comprised Conn Beckitt (our junior), Hilary Beckitt, and once again Betty & Bill Davidson with a high score of 39 – 10, very well done and good luck with your Lottery Tickets.
Margaret and I were extremely delighted with your response for Raffle Prizes, thank you all so much.
With 8 full rinks and guests from Nottingham Wendy had a busy Sunday afternoon. There was plenty of laughter and chattering in the dining room and players certainly sounded like they were enjoying themselves. The roast pork dinner with trifle to follow was delicious and much appreciated by all. Thank you Wendy and staff for your hard work.
We were able to provide 11 prizes for the Raffle and again thanks to Wendy for her help. The end of another successful Weekend Friendly Game for Lincoln with 8 full rinks its quite an achievement, so please keep supporting us.
Marion Hayward
Congratulations to the club's team in the Top Club competition who achieved a convincing win at Boston and now face Redcar. Given the distance between the clubs this may well be played at one of the York clubs.
On Thursday the ladies play York for a place in the semi-finals. We wish them well and if you can get to the club on Thursday I'm sure your support will be welcome.
The Yetton Team will be striving to emulate the success of the Vivienne Trophy team who have again reached the semi-finals after quarter-final success against Huntingdon and now play Falcon IBC at a venue as yet to be arranged on 9 February.
We are now at the area final stage of the National Competitions with a number of our bowlers in contention for a place at the finals at Nottingham IBC.
Firstly, congratulations to Penny Strong and Dean Tute on qualifying for the Mixed Pairs finals at Northampton. The original entry was of course Penny and Tony Gilroy but Tony was unable to play in the area final and Dean subbed for him.
The Singles final will be contested by Dean Tute and Paul Barks (Horncastle).
Pairs, Billy Jackson and Danny Brown v Paul Barks and Keith Jackman.
Triples, Billy and Danny with Kevin Rands v Paul and Keith with Richard Whittaker.
Rinks, Billy, Danny, Kevin and Phil Graves v Dean Tute, Tony Gilroy, George Draper and Mike Smith.
The first thee are likely to be played at Louth on dates yet to be decided but I think there's a good chance that the rinks will be played at Lincoln.
Mixed League A v Boston
On Sunday Lincoln A mixed team visited Boston in the return match, having beaten them at home in November by14 points to 4.
Lincoln got off to a bad start, with only one rink winning at 10 ends & 14 shots behind. By 15 ends 2 rinks were winning, the deficit being 9 shots. On the 16th end Lincoln managed to edge ahead for the first time, be it only by one shot. The game continued to be close right to the end, but we held on to win by 90 shots to 82 and by 14 points to 4.
The best winning rink was Pam Richardson, June Mills, Pat Mills & John Horton.
The next game is on Sunday 5th February at Spalding
Dave Hempsall
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