Tonights home match was against The Meads in the Pembs Main League and with the visitors fielding Welsh Intl players in each of the games East Williamston knew they had their work cut out.
Playing Singles was Mark who started well taking 1 on the first and 2 on the second. However, The Meads played with strength, often ditching the jack, and taking the next four ends with 5 shots. Mark pulled back 1 on the seventh and with another 1 on the eighth the scores were tied. The Meads surrounded the jack on the ninth and took 3, followed by 1 on the tenth. With dogged determination Mark came back taking another 1 on the eleventh and with the gap being just 3 shots it was going to be an important final end. Mark had his bowls around the back of the jack and The Meads were holding, but with their last shot they clipped the jack which neatly popped back and nestled into Marks awaiting pack of bowls. Taking 4 it gave Mark a 1 shot advantage and the win. Sharon and Fran played Pairs and with both players drawing nicely to the jack, they took 2 on the first and 2 on the second. The Meads then took 1 on the third and 1 on the fourth. The Meads were holding on the fifth but Fran did a nicely weighted shot which pinged the visitors bowl away from the jack and hers stopped on it to take 1. The Meads surrounded the jack on the sixth to take 4 and for the first time in the game were 1 shot ahead. However East Williamston refocused, taking 2 on the seventh and 1 on the eighth. On the ninth Sharon did two lovely bowls to the jack and despite their best efforts The Meads couldn’t get near. Fran then just drew her two in and the home side took all 4. 1 more to The Meads on the tenth and with 1 to East Williamston on the eleventh, and a 6 shot lead, the home side knew that the visitors could not catch them. 2 went to The Meads on the last end but the gap proved too wide and the win went to the home side. Brenda, Cliff and Phill E played Triples. The first end went to the visitors with 1 shot and on the second end they were holding with 2, however a great strike by Phill removed all of the visitors bowls and gave East Williamston 3. Brenda was drawing nicely to the jack, to help secure another 2 on the third. On the fourth The Meads were again holding at the back of the mat, but with his final bowl Phill took a lovely wick which knocked The Meads bowls into the ditch and his bowl nestled nicely onto the jack, to take another 2. A strong strike, on the fifth, knocked the home bowls away and gave The Meads 3. On the sixth Cliff did a wonderful shot which curled into the jack, followed by a draw from Phill and another 2 to the home side. On the eighth end Brenda did another lovely draw into the jack, which the visitors couldn’t disrupt, giving another 1 to East Williamston and a 5 shot lead. The Meads turned up the heat as the game was getting away from them and they successfully took 1 on the eighth and 2 on the ninth. With the lead now narrowed to 3 the last end was a crucial one. Brenda did another 2 great shots onto the jack but a fired shot by The Meads scattered both bowls and the jack and killed the end. On the restart Brenda got another bowl to the jack but the Meads knocked the jack away, to the back corner and landed another 2 bowls nearby. With The Meads holding 3 East Williamston needed to try and disrupt things. Unfortunately a couple of weighted shots missed and then The Meads drew in a fourth. Without another East Williamston bowl getting to the jack, the visitors took 4 and a narrow win. Steve, Theresa, Phill E and Mandy played Rinks. Theresa drew in nicely to the jack to take 1 on the first and The Meads were holding on the second but a great strike by Mandy pinged the jack back to Steves perfectly placed back bowl and another 1 to the home side. On the third end Steve drew nicely to the jack, but The Meads crept passed his bowl to take 1. The Meads then piled on the pressure, successfully surrounding the jack. Phill did a couple of weighted shots to try and break up the pack but The Meads just kept coming back at them and, despite their best efforts, East Williamston couldn’t get the winning shots, with The Meads taking 3 on the fourth, 4 on the fifth and 4 on the sixth. The seventh end was looking hopeful for East Williamston as Steve drew to the jack, closely followed by Theresa who stopped on the inside of a Meads bowl. Phill then placed one in front and Mandy one behind but, somehow, the Meads managed to sneak through them all to take 1. The last couple of ends were again action packed as everyone was jostling to get nearest to the jack but The Meads were successful and took 1 on the eighth and 1 on the ninth to take the win. Overall Result : Tied 4 - 4 on Points and 35 - 44 on shots Singles Win 10 - 9 Pairs Win 13 - 9 Triples Loss 10 - 11 Rinks Loss 2 - 15 A really great performance by the whole team tonight and an excellent result for the Club.
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