Sunday 30 September 2018

Cornwall County Short Mat Bowling Association - News Release 30 September 2018

CORNWALL COUNTY SHORT MAT BOWLING ASSOCIATION
NEWS RELEASE 30 September 2018

INTER COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP
On Sunday Cornwall host Devon at Carnmoggas Indoor Bowling Club in the ESMBA Inter County Championship.  Cornwall narrowly lost their opening fixtures away to Somerset 3 weeks ago 18-22 in the Premier match and 16-24 in the A Team match.  Devon come into Sunday's fixture match on the back of heavy defeats to Dorset 9-31 at Premier level and 5-35 at A Team level.

ESMBA OPEN FOURS
On Saturday Cornwall Premier Team player James Smith joined with three other West Country bowlers Tom Perris, Paul Pomeroy & James Trott to win the ESMBA Open Fours played in Tamworth.

INTER AREA LEAGUE
Last Sunday the first of three rounds of Inter Area League matches were played at Carnmoggas East won 25-15 against West and Central won 30-10 against North.  

COUNTY MIXED FOURS
On Saturday Carnmoggas will be the venue for the County Mixed Fours with twelve teams entered.  In addition to the County Title three of the teams will also be playing for a place at the 2019 National Championships.

COUNTY LEAGUES
The County Evening League program is underway and continually updated league tables for each division can be accessed from the following links.

West Premier - https://bit.ly/2NcOIFf
West Division One - https://bit.ly/2OXTqbx
Central Premier - https://bit.ly/2Omr3H2
Central Division One - https://bit.ly/2Rd0G4Y
East Premier - https://bit.ly/2OmrMbe
East Division One - https://bit.ly/2zGwUPm

UPCOMING FIXTURES
Sat 6 October - County & National Mixed Fours @ Carnmoggas
Sun 7 October - Inter County v Devon @ Carnmoggas
Sat 13 October - County 2 Wood Singles @ Carnmoggas
Sun 14 October - Inter County v Dorset @ Bere Regis
Sun 21 October - County 2 Wood Pairs @ Carnmoggas

CCSMBA MAILING LIST
A new mailing list has been established for distributing news from the Cornwall County Short Mat Bowling Association.  Please subscribe by following this link http://eepurl.com/dw3JH1 to keep up to date with the latest news from the CCSMBA. 

ENDS
Nicholas Truscott
Press and Promotions Officer
CCSMBA

Tel 07800 916059
E-mail cornwallshortmatbowls@gmail.com  

Sunday 16 September 2018

CORNWALL COUNTY SHORT MAT BOWLING ASSOCIATION - NEWS RELEASE 16 September 2018

CORNWALL COUNTY SHORT MAT BOWLING ASSOCIATION
NEWS RELEASE - 16 September 2018

INTER COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP
On Sunday Cornwall travelled to Somerset for the opening match of the 2018/19 Inter County Championship season.

The Premier Team came away with an 18-22 defeat whilst the A Team returned home with the 16-24 defeat.  Cornwall are next in action on Sunday 7th October when they host Devon at Carnmoggas.  Devon will be coming into the match off the back of heavy defeats to at Dorset, 9-31 in the Premier Team match and 5-35 in the A Team match.

SHORT MAT PLAYERS TOUR
Three local bowlers travelled to Belfast over the weekend to compete in the Short Mat Players Tour Irish Open.  

Nigel Nicholls won 4 out of 5 games in the group stages to top Group 5 and progress into the Cup competition where he met young Irish bowler Hannah Cochrane in the last 64 losing 5-10 to the youngster who went on to reach the semi finals.

Peter Hore won all 5 group games to top Group 25 and also progress into the Cup competition where he met Irish bowler P J McCrossan in the last 64 losing 4-9.

Elise Daniell won two games in the group stages to come through Group 14 in fourth place and take a place in the Plate Competition. Elise won her last 128 round game against Irishman Billy Taaffe.  in the next round she came up against another Irishman Jordan Rankin losing 7-9.  Rankin went on to reach the final of the Plate Competition.

The trio are next in SMPT action over the weekend of 27th and 28th October in the Norwegian Open where 126 bowlers from across Europe will compete for the title.

Nigel has moved up to second in the SMPT World Rankings, 53.38 points behind leader Jonathan Payne (Belguim).  Peter Hore moves up seven places in the World Rankings to 28th.  Elise Daniell drops 10 places to 133rd in the World Rankings.

The current top 10, together with the points to be dropped at the next competition are


In the Order of Merit standings Nigel has moved up to 9th, 42 points off the lead.



COMING UP
There is no local competition scheduled for this weekend, the next competition being match day one of this years Inter Area League on Sunday 30th at Carnmoggas with North v Central and East v West. 

Saturday 29th see's the second ESMBA Open Competition of the season, the Fours, played in the Midlands. No full rinks have entered from Cornwall but some players will be taking part in the competition playing with bowlers from other counties.

CCSMBA MAILING LIST
A new mailing list has been established for distributing news from the Cornwall County Short Mat Bowling Association.  Please subscribe by following this link http://eepurl.com/dw3JH1 to keep up to date with the latest news from the CCSMBA. 

ENDS
Nicholas Truscott
Press and Promotions Officer
CCSMBA

Tel 07800 916059
E-mail cornwallshortmatbowls@gmail.com  

Sunday 9 September 2018

CORNWALL COUNTY SHORT MAT BOWLING ASSOCIATION - NEWS RELEASE 9 September 2018.

CORNWALL COUNTY SHORT MAT BOWLING ASSOCIATION
NEWS RELEASE - 9 September 2018

CORNWALL COUNTY TEAM
Last Sunday the County Team Trials were held at Carnmoggas Indoor Bowling Club giving Team Manager Gill Cawrse and Captains Nigel Nicholls & Tony Jago an opportunity to consider the make up of the the Premier and A Teams ahead of Sunday's first group game away to Somerset at Donyatt Indoor Bowling Club.  Cornwall go into the season opener missing three regular members of the Premier Team, Nigel Nicholls, Peter Hore & Elise Daniell who are competing in the Short Mat Players Tour Irish Open in Belfast.  Prior to Sunday's match the squad meet at Carnmoggas for a practice on Saturday.

Cornwall's other group fixtures are scheduled for 
Sun 7th October v Devon @ Carnmoggas, Nr St Austell
Sun 14th October v Dorset @ Dorset Bowls Resort, Nr Bere Regis
Sun 4th November v Somerset @ Carnmoggas
Sun 11th November v Dorset @ Carnmoggas
Sun 25th November v  Devon @ Isca, Exeter

SHORT MAT PLAYERS TOUR
The second event of the Short Mat Players Tour season, the Irish Open is being played in Belfast with a full entry of 216 bowlers.  As already mentioned 3 local bowlers make the trip to Belfast, Nigel Nicholls, Peter Hore and Elise Daniell.  In the Group stages they will line up against:-

W %
N/AIIBACOLIN NEESON0.00% (0)
117IIBANATHAN HAIRE67.35% (98)
368IIBAROBIN GAMBLE25.81% (62)
129IIBAJORDAN RANKIN45.61% (57)
320IIBANATHAN MINISH41.38% (29)
3ENGNIGEL NICHOLLS70.14% (144)

W %
176IIBAJAMIE CROZIER40.00% (25)
312SCOJIMMY BROATCH56.25% (16)
162ENGGEORGE MAIN46.15% (13)
558IIBABARBARA ELLIOT28.57% (7)
123ENGELISE DANIELL33.33% (87)
26WALMARTIN HARRIES70.42% (71)

W %
107IIBARACHEL COCHRANE51.72% (29)
538IIBAMICHAEL MCKIM23.08% (13)
N/ASCOWALTER BRUCE0.00% (0)
2ENGSTEPHEN PROCTOR72.99% (137)
N/AIIBAJACK MOFFETT16.67% (12)
35ENGPETER HORE62.50% (88)

Nigel's game against Nathan Haire has been scheduled for the Show Mat at 1545 on Saturday with live score updates on the Short Mat Players Tour website and possible live streaming on Facebook.

At the recent UK Open Nigel moved up to 3rd in the World Rankings after reaching the last 16 of the Cup competition.  Peter Hore dropped 5 places to 35th after reaching the Quarter Finals of the Plate Competition.  Martin Boraston, in only his second SMPT competition reached the last 32 of the Plate Competition.  Luke Jolly also reached the same stage.  Elise Daniell didn't win a game going out in the last 64 of the Shield competition.  

Full results and statistics history can be accessed via https://stats.shortmatplayerstour.com/.

SUMMER LEAGUE FINAL
Blisland are the 2018 Summer League Champions after winning both legs of the recent final .  Keith Matthews, Max Burden & Betty Temple Smith won 14-12 against Nomads' Nigel Nicholls, Percy Tripp and Elise Daniell at Newlyn on 21st August and 18-7 at home to win 32-19 overall.

COUNTY COMPETITION ENTRIES
The closing date for entries into County Competitions is Saturday 15th September.
 
CCSMBA MAILING LIST
A new mailing list has been established for distributing news from the Cornwall County Short Mat Bowling Association.  Please subscribe by following this link http://eepurl.com/dw3JH1 to keep up to date with the latest news from the CCSMBA. 

ENDS
Nicholas Truscott
Press and Promotions Officer
CCSMBA

Tel 07800 916059
E-mail cornwallshortmatbowls@gmail.com