East Williamston were away for tonight’s South Pembs fixture against second in the league, The Badgers.
Playing on two mats up first was Mark, in the Singles. Mark got off to a strong start with 1 on the first, 2 on the second and 2 on the third. Badgers came back with 2 on the fourth, 1 on the fifth and 2 on the sixth, levelling the scores ahead of the final end. The final end was a closely fought battle but Mark pinched 2 to take the win. Sharon and Fran played Pairs. This time it was the home team who started strongly, with 2 on the first and 4 on the second. However, East Williamston replied with 3 on the third and 1 on the fourth. Badgers took 1 on the fifth and 1 on the sixth to extend their lead to 4. On the final end Badgers were holding another two until East Williamston’s final bowl of the match rolled straight along the edge of the mat, clipped the jack into the ditch and took shot. Unfortunately it wasn’t enough to close the gap and Badgers took the points. Stephen, John and Cliff played Triples and started strongly with 4 on the first end. Badgers replied with 2 on the second but the visitors were drawing well, taking 3 on the third, 2 on the fourth and 3 on the fifth to hold a 10 shot lead. Badgers took 1 on the sixth but with another 2 to the visitors on the last end, East Williamston took a commanding win. Paula, Theresa, Mandy and Phill P played Rinks and also started well, with 2 on the first, 1 on the second and 1 on the third. Badgers replied with 3 on the fourth to close the gap to just 1 but East Williamston were drawing nicely and, in doing so, took another 2 on the fifth and 4 on the sixth. East Williamston had a pack surrounding the jack until Badgers skip disrupted the head, springing the jack to their two awaiting bowls. But, with the last bowl of the night the East Williamston skip clipped the jack back to a waiting EW bowl to take 1 shot and the win. An excellent result, played in great spirit against a strong opposition and securing important points in the title race against Badgers. Overall Result : Win to East Williamston 8 - 2 on Points, 37 - 19 on Shots Singles Win 7 - 5 (2 Points) Pairs Lost 5 - 8 (0 Points) Triples Win 14 - 3 (2 Points) Rinks Win 11 - 3 (2 Points) Aggregate Shots 37 - 19 (2 Points)
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