CORNWALL COUNTY SHORT MAT BOWLING ASSOCIATION - News Release 9 October 2022

CORNWALL COUNTY SHORT MAT BOWLING ASSOCIATION

News Release - 9 October 2022

INTER COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP

On Sunday Cornwall travelled to Bere Regis to face Dorset in the second round of Inter County Championship fixtures.

Cornwall's Premier Team started the match with a couple of wins in the first session, Percy Tripp 13-12 in the Singles and John Worton & Steve Smith 12-9 in the Pairs.  Cornwall failed to pick up another point in the match, going on to lose 36 points to 4 and 251 shots to 137. In the day's other group match Devon travelled to Hampshire coming away with a 30-10 win leaving Cornwall bottom of the group table in the relegation play off place.

Premier Team Scores

SINGLES - Peter Hore (Captain) (Holmans) 24-4, 24-4; Percy Tripp (Newlyn Trinity) 12-13, 17-5

PAIRS - John Worton (St Newlyn East) & Steve Smith (St Newlyn East) 9-12, 12-9; Treeve Pollard (Holmans) & David Studden (Holmans) 18-9, 12-10

TRIPLES - Elise Daniell (Holmans), Nicholas Truscott (Holmans) & Martin Boraston (Duloe) 10-9, 16-11; Sandra Worton (St Newlyn East), Richard Kerr (Landrake)& Kevin Williams (Porthleven) 11-10, 12-9

FOURS - Graham Reeves (Landrake), Caroline Trubshaw (Duloe), Alan Trubshaw (Duloe) & Gary Davey (Liskeard) 25-7, 16-8; Max Burden (Blisland), Rita Hancock (Blisland), Mark Payne (Penzance) & Keith Matthews (Blisland) 15-9, 18-8

	P	W	D	L	Pts
Dorset	2	2	0	0	71
Hampshire	2	1	0	1	38
Devon	2	1	0	1	35
Cornwall	2	0	0	2	16

It was a different story for Cornwall's A Team playing their first match of the season.  The first session saw a 6-2 session advantage to Cornwall with Dennis Shorthouse winning 15-10 in the Singles and wins for Des Pengelly & Alan Holden 18-17 and Lynne Davey and David Topliffe 13-10 in the Pairs.  Cornwall repeated the score in the second session with Leonard Lee, Jon Read and Tony Jago winning 21-7 in the Triples and Meg Horrell, Heidi Kerr, Brenda Sleep & Ken Horrell 11-7 and Henry Matthews, Simon Lees, Ray Jeffery & Morgan Lees 10-9 in the Fours.  

The third session was shared with Cornwall winning both Singles, Neil Gribble 22-9 and Shorthouse 13-11 securing the bonus points.  The Pairs both lost by narrow margins but secured thr bonus points.  The final session saw Dorset's only session advantage of the day with Cornwall's only points coming from the Triple of Dianne Shorthouse, Mark Williams and Mike Webster 18-12.  The Triples secured a further two bonus points to leave the final score Dorset 16 points 188 shots Cornwall 24 points 202 shots.   

A Team Scores

SINGLES - Neil Gribble (Landrake) 14-9, 9-22; Dennis Shorthouse (Landrake) 10-15, 11-13

PAIRS - Des Pengelly (Saltash Kernow) & Alan Holden (Landrake) 17-18, 13-12; Lynne Davey (Liskeard) & David Topliffe (Boscastle) 10-13, 14-12

TRIPLES - Leonard Lee (Duloe), Jon Read (Duloe) & Tony Jago (Withiel) 6-21, 12-8; Dianne Shorthouse (Landrake), Mark Williams (Lanteglos) & Mike Webster (Blisland) 19-7, 12-18

FOURS - Meg Horrell (Withiel), Heidi Kerr (Landrake), Brenda Sleep (Dobwalls) & Ken Horrell (Blisland) 7-11, 11-5; Henry Matthews (Blisland), Simon Lees (Newlyn Trinity), Ray Jeffery (Newlyn Trinity), Morgan Lees (Newlyn Trinity) 9-10, 14-8

	P	W	D	L	Pts
Dorset	2	1	0	1	41
Cornwall	1	1	0	0	24
Devon	1	0	0	1	15

Cornwall's Premier Team will re-group ahead of the final away matches of the season on the 30th October when both teams travel to Exeter to face Devon.

INTER AREA LEAGUE

On Saturday the first round of Inter Area League matches were played at Carnmoggas.  In a new format for this year teams are made up of a minimum of 10 players making up 1 Singles, 1 Pair, 1 Triple and 1 Four with the four areas playing each on each match day.

The results of the first of three match days were

Singles Central 6 points +12 shots, West 4 +9, East 2 -3, North 0 -18

Pairs Central 4 +14, North 4 +7, West 2 -9, East 2 -12

Triples North 4 +25, Central 3 +6, West 3 -9, East 2 -22

Fours East 6 +26, North 4 +1, Central 2 -4, West 0 -23

Totals Central 15 +28, North 12 +15, East 12 -11, West 9 -32

The next round for fixtures will take place on Sunday 20th November at Carnmoggas.

COUNTY COMPETITIONS

On Sunday the County Championships get under way at Carnmoggas with 29 pairs entered in the County Two Wood Pairs.  Play gets underway at 0900 and will continue to around 1500.

ENDS

Nicholas Truscott

Press and Promotions Officer

CCSMBA