CORNWALL COUNTY SHORT MAT BOWLING ASSOCIATION - News Release 23rd April 2023

CORNWALL COUNTY SHORT MAT BOWLING ASSOCIATION

NEWS RELEASE 23rd April 2023

Short Mat Players Tour - World Masters

Three local bowlers travelled to Belfast last weekend for the final Short Mat Players Tour event of the season, the World Masters involving 216 bowlers representing 8 countries.

Newlyn Trinity's Nigel Nicholls started his weekend with an 8-5 win against Craig Burgess (ENG).  An 8-12 defeat to Robbie Foster (IRE) was followed by wins against Paul Hagan (IRE) 14-7 and Caolan Mchugh (IRE) 10-6.  Sunday's final group game against Paul Duff (IRE) ended in a narrow 6-7 defeat leaving Nigel in 3rd place in the group and into the Plate Competition.  

In the last 64 round Nigel lost 8-9 to John Pye (ENG).  Nigel retains 9th place in the World Rankings with 674.50 points and finishes this season's Order of Merit in 8th place with 476.50 points and a place in the England team at August's World Cup event.  Nigel's SMPT stats can be found on the SMPT website at https://stats.shortmatplayerstour.com/player.php?player=89 

Holmans's Elise Daniell lost her opening matches of the weekend by 2 and 1 shot respectively against Dean Craig (IRE) 6-8 and Stephan Mulholland (IRE) 7-8.  Saturday afternoon saw further defeats to David Chittock (ENG) 3-13 and Hannah Cochrane (IRE) 6-16.  A 9-6 win in Sunday's final group game against group-topping Daniel Sands (ENG) didn't lift Elise off the bottom of the group and into a place in the Shield Knockout.  

In the last 64 round Elise won 10-0 against Gerald Conroy (IRE) before losing in the last 32 round to Nigel Hamilton (IRE) 3-14.  Elise drops to 49th in the World Rankings with 367.25 points and finishes this season's Order of Merit in 66th place with 208.75 points.  Elise's SMPT stats can be found on the SMPT website at https://stats.shortmatplayerstour.com/player.php?player=78

Holman's Peter Hore started with a 11-7 win against Anja Ehmke (NOR) before three defeats across the rest of Saturday's matches,  5-11 to Steven Jeffers (IRE),  5-7 to Steven Burrows (ENG) and 6-18 to Jaime West (IRE).  A 1-21 defeat to evential semi finalist Ian Hobson (IRE) left Peter 5th in the group and into the Shield Knockout.    

In the last 64 round Peter lost 5-10 to Michael Reid (IRE).  Peter drops to 57th in the World Rankings with 325.75 points and finishes this season's Order of Merit in 99th place with 169.75 points.  Peter's SMPT stats can be found on the SMPT website at https://stats.shortmatplayerstour.com/player.php?player=90.

The tournament was won by Dorset's Alex Kley who adds the title to the English National, British Isles and World Short Mat Bowls Council Singles titles already won this season. 

On Friday Nigel Nicholls took part in the Belfast Open Pairs with Northamptonshire's Ed Sawbridge.  After losing thier opening match against Martin McNicholl & Damien Campbell 4-12 they won 8-5 against Christer Nordin & Eroll Morina to finish second in the group and qualify for the Cup Knockout where they lost in the first round to Joseph Beattie and Gary Moore 9-11.

Friends of Essex Tour

Locally the CCSMBA is preparing to host the Friends of Essex Touring team over the Coronation weekend at Carnmoggas.  The fixture was originally planned to take place in 2020 to mark the 30th anniversary of the CCSMBA.

Nicholas Truscott

Press and Promotions Officer

CCSMBA