Our third match of the week was a rearranged home fixture against New Hedges in the South Pembs Friendly League.
Playing on two mats, up first was Mark in the Singles and Mandy and Fran in the Pairs. Mark started well, surrounding the jack, and taking 4 on the first end with another 2 on the second. New Hedges took 1 back on the third but Mark followed it up with 2 on the fourth. Mark was sat on the jack on the fifth but the visitor lined up a great shot onto Marks bowl which moved to the back, leaving the New Hedges bowl sat on the jack. Mark then replicated the shot and the jack sprang towards Marks awaiting back bowl. However New Hedges weren’t done and did another shot which took the jack back to the ditch and gave them the end. Mark took a further 2 on the sixth and closed off the final end, surrounding the jack to take 4 and the win. Mandy and Fran, in the Pairs, took an early lead with 1 on the first. They both drew in nicely to take 3 on the second but the visitors were better gauging the speed and swing and took 2 on the third. East Williamston replied with another 1 on the fourth and 2 on the fifth. However, the home side were suddenly struggling to get to the jack and the visitors took advantage, pinching 2 on the sixth. Going into the final end the home side only had a 3 shot lead. New Hedges took 1 but it wasn’t enough to close the gap. Paula, Theresa and Sharon played Triples. The visitors took 1 on the first end, however a brilliant team performance by East Williamston, surrounding the jack, gave the home side 5 on the second. New Hedges pulled 1 back on the third but East Williamston were now improving at getting to the jack and successfully took the next four ends with a further 5 shots to secure the win. Fran, Gwyneth, Cliff and Phill P played Rinks and a great opener to the game was them taking 4 on the first end, followed by 1 on the second. East Williamston worked well as a team and successfully surrounded the jack, which made it very difficult for the visitors to disrupt things. This tactic secured a further 5 on the third end, 1 on the fourth and 2 on the fifth. East Williamston were holding on the sixth but an absolute beauty of a shot, by the New Hedges skip, gently curled inside East Williamston’s holding bowl to take the end. On the final end East Williamston again had the jack surrounded with just one New Hedges bowl in the mix. Our final bowl needed to just draw in, but sent with a bit of pace it pinged the jack off the mat. With New Hedges unable to close the gap they asked that the end be declared dead as they could not beat our score even if all of their bowls had been holding. Overall Result : Win to East Williamston 10 - 0 on Points, 44 - 10 on Shots Singles Win 14 - 2 Pairs Win 7 - 5 Triples Win 10 - 2 Rinks Win 13 - 1
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