Competitions

Castlefields’ Steve Freer reached the final of the Houldsworth WMC Good Friday Invitation but lost out to Simon Coupe 19. He had a great run in a quality field beating Paul Bailey 11, Graeme Wilson 17, Chris Kelly 9 and Rob Hitchen to get to the final. He then raced …

The Salop Leisure Shropshire Premier Bowling League had two semi finalists in the 2017 CCF Open, both from Ifton, but it was Ben Percival of North Midlands who won the competition, beating Jason McLoughlin 14 in the final. Andy Hughes lost to Ben 7 and Leighton Roberts to Jason 17 …

Ryan Prosser of Warwick and Worcester won the 2017 Meole Brace Open after beating Kevin Boon of the Potteries in the final 21-8. Ryan, who has moved to the George this season from King George V, ended young gun Josh Mordue’s fine run in the Semi Finals 20, with Kevin …

Scott Simpson from Sir John Bayley today won the ECC Open after beating John Dewey of Derbyshire 9 in the final. He had a closer call in the Semi Finals beating Hanwood’s Greg Smith 16 while John had beaten Graeme Wilson in the other Semi 19. We had three losing …

Bowring take part in their first ever World Club Championships as they look to make their mark on the big stage. They won the KGJ Insurance County Cup last season after a shock triumph over Castlefields and despite losing three members of that team over the Winter to Wrockwardine Wood they …

The finals of the Meole Brace Open is tomorrow and there are 13 Salop Leisure Shropshire Premier Bowling League players taking their place in the field. 2015 champion Andy Hughes of Ifton aims to defend his title and opens up against Michael McDonnell of Lloyds, in a repeat of that year’s …

The ECC finals day take place tomorrow and the Salop Leisure Shropshire Premier Bowling League have 14 players in a top quality field. Reigning Champion Callum Wraight of Castlefields takes on the young talent of Mitchell Harvey first round with runner up Greg Smith, who plays for Hanwood, having a …

It was a super Saturday for Salop Leisure Shropshire Premier Bowling League as we took three of the four qualifying spots already. The eye catching one was Gary Beff of Chester Road, who beat Champion of Champion Gary Ellis second game 17, after defeating Andy Judson of Castlefields 16 and …

Over half the tickets to the finals of the Meole Brace Open were taken by Salop Leisure Shropshire Premier League bowlers last weekend. Former winner Callum Wraight from Castlefields was among three Fields players to qualify after he eased through after edging out Bill Kinchin 18 first game, beating Craig …

It was the last weekend of ECC Open qualifying action and three Sir John Bayley players all got through on the Saturday. Tom Roden qualified in the morning after beating Ben Gloag 9, Ryan Walters 8 and then edging out David Gwilliam 18 in the qualifier. Staffordshire stars Paul Evans and …