East Williamston were away for tonight’s Main League match against Letterston.
Playing Singles was Mark who got off to a strong start taking the first five ends with 7 shots. However just as it looked like he was pulling ahead Letterston took 4 on the sixth, 1 on the seventh, 1 on the eighth and 2 on the ninth and suddenly Letterston were ahead by 1. Mark played his socks off, taking another 4 on the tenth, 3 on the eleventh and 1 on the final end to take a comfortable win. Fran and Mandy played Pairs. The home side took 1 on the first end with East Williamston pinching 1 back on the second. The visitors were struggling to conquer the mat and Letterston started to creep ahead with 1 on the third and 2 on the fourth. A couple of nice draws to the jack and suddenly East Williamston pulled back 3 on the fifth to level the scores once more. The next four ends proved frustrating for the visitors as, despite East Williamston holding, the home side kept pinching the wins, taking another 7 shots. East Williamston weren’t done yet and won the last three ends but, despite this, the gap was too wide and Letterston took the win. Playing Triples were Kym, Theresa and Phill P who took 1 on the first end. Letterston came back, taking 1 on the second and 2 on the third but some lovely bowls, into the pack, by the visitors, gave them 3 on the fourth. Another 1 on the fifth and 1 on the sixth and the East Williamston were creeping ahead. But again, Letterston were not going to let the visitors have it all their own way, pulling back 1 on the seventh and 2 on the eighth. Suddenly the scores were level and East Williamston knew they needed to pull out all the stops, with the whole team bowling to the jack to take 4 on the ninth and a little bit of breathing space. Letterston took 2 on the final end but a 2 shot advantage to the visitors sealed the win. Stephen, Gwyneth, Cliff and Phill E played Rinks. Letterston took 1 on the first but East Williamston took the next three ends with three shots. However the fifth end proved disastrous, as the visitors failed to break up the Letterston pack, giving the home side 5 shots and the lead. After that East Williamston seemed to struggle with bowls going off, being short, being long and hitting the block and Letterston just kept taking the ends with a further 4 shots over the next three ends. East Williamston took a consolation 1 on the last end but, sadly, that fifth end had taken the game away from them. Despite the loss there was some excellent bowling by everyone, with closely fought matches, on tricky mats. Overall Result : Loss to East Williamston 4 - 6 points and 36-37 shots (Unfortunately we missed out on the aggregate 2 point bonus by just 2 shots) Singles Win 15 - 4 Pairs Loss 7 - 11 Triples. Win 10 - 8 Rinks Loss 4 - 10
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