Saturday 22 December 2018

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

CORNWALL COUNTY SHORT MAT BOWLING ASSOCIATION
NEWS RELEASE 30 DECEMBER 2018

COUNTY FOUR WOOD PAIRS
Over the weekend of 5th & 6th January 50 pairs are entered to play in the County Four Wood Pairs competition at Carnmoggas Indoor Bowling Club.  25 pairings are drawn to play on each day with a minimum of three games for each team in a round robin format.  From each day 4 qualifiers will go forward to the finals in March.  Details of the draw can be found here https://www.dropbox.com/s/d82i5m8dzv9v2la/County%204wd%20Pairs%202018-19.pdf?dl=0

INTER COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP
Cornwall will face Devon, Dorset & Somerset in the group stages of the 2019/20 ESMBA Inter County Championship.  Overall the championships see a fall in the number of county teams competing in the Premier section, down to 17 with North Yorkshire and Cheshire dropping to the A section where together with returnees Wiltshire the number of counties rises by three from 24 to 27.  In a significant change to the ESMBA calendar the Inter County season will be extended by over a month with the finals moving several weeks later into April.

 
COUNTY LEAGUES
The County Evening League program has reached the halfway stage.

In the West area Newlyn Trinity have lead the way throughout the first half of the season dropping only 4 points in ten matches.  They meet closest challengers Holmans at Blaythorne on Thursday 3rd January.  In Division One Penlee Pirates lead by a point from Helston Wendron.

Withiel Oaks are 13 points clear of closest rivals Luxulyan Golds in the Central Area.  Three teams are separated by 2 points at the top of Division One with Goonbarrow leading the way followed by Luxulyan Maroons & St Agnes Cuckoos.

In the East Landrake lead Callington Eagles by a single point.  Saltash Kernow head Division One by 7 points from Pensilva.  Lanteglos A lead the North area by 3 points from Blisland.

Continually updated league tables for each division can be accessed from the following links.

We have added new functionality to the website to enable media organisations to download league match results within a defined date range to suit production deadline.  This can be found at http://www.nicholastruscott.co.uk/ccsmba/media/results.php

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 5 January - County Four Wood Pairs @ Carnmoggas
Sat 6 January - County Four Wood Pairs @ Carnmoggas
Sat 12 January - Short Mat Players Tour British Open @ York IBC
Sun 13 January - Short Mat Players Tour British Open @ York IBC

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

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