Taylor Support Shropshire Premier Bowls League
The second weekend of the NJ Installations Hadley Open comes up this weekend with another 64 hopefuls looking to qualify. On the Saturday afternoon session multiple Shropshire Merit Winner and former home player Pete Farmer takes part, along with another couple of homesters in Rich Dandy and Paul Hemming. Alison Cotton will be the first women to take part in the competition along with clubmate Sonya Lucas. Merseyside county players Dave McDermott and Jamie Fitzpatrick travel down, and competition winner Nathan Dawes takes part too. Into the evening and there is plenty of youth on show. Jamie King grew up on the green, and Matt Rhodes has also played there. Ash Wellings, Tom Roden, Dan Williams and Martin Gaut all have plenty of competition experience despite their young age, with the young Staffordshire quartet of Reece Farr, Jacob Ash, Bruno Heath and Kris Johnson all looking to make their mark. Cheshire star Matt Gilmore will be one of the favourites to qualify given his competition pedigree.
The Sunday afternoon has former Chester Road player Ian Booth returning to Shropshire, along with Sir John Bayley’s Steve Burroughs, who played at Hadley for one season. Shropshire County players Spencer Clarke and Scott Harries take part, along with North Midlands’ Darren Plenderleith, Staffordshire’s Glynn Storer and Ryan Prosser of Warwick and Worcester. The evening has former home players Simon Homer and Jamie Wyer in the line-up, as well as Sam MIllward. Staffordshire’s Scott Simpson and Aaron Tapper are there along with current and former Bayley team mate Paul Evans, who has his son Owen Evans in the side. Elliot McGuinness has won big competitions in the past, as well as Paul Williams. St Georges pair Josh Bradburn and Tony Rhodes also take part.
Saturday 25th March 2.30 session
Ryan Walters
Rich Dandy
Paul Hemming
Russ Prosser
Kirk Stevens
Craig Skidmore
John Newey
Alison Cotton
Paul Beer
Nathan Dawes
Malcolm Phillips
Dave McDermott
Jamie Fitzpatrick
Rikki Higgs
Peter Farmer
Sonya Lucas
Saturday 25th March 6.30 session
Martin Gaut
Phil Clapham
Matt Rhodes
Jacob Ash
Reece Farr
Kris Johnson
Bruno Heath
Tom Roden
Craig Jones
Rob Evans
Jamie King
Dan Williams
Ash Wellings
Ed Proudlove
Matt Gilmore
Sunday 26th March 2.30 session
Ian Booth
Joe Bown
Chris Baker
Lee Cavill
Glynn Storer
Darren Palin
Dan Hazeldine
Spencer Clarke
Robin Clarke
Steve Burroughs
Pete Gardiner
Scott Harries
Dave Nicholls
Darren Plenderleith
Ryan Prosser
Graham Hunt
Sunday 26th March 6.30 session
Sam Millward
Simon Homer
Jamie Wyer
Elliot McGuinness
Scott Moseley
Paul Evans
Scott Simpson
Tony Eades
Owen Evans
Tony Rhodes
Adam Jones
Josh Bradburn
Aaron Tapper
Anthony Gray
Paul Williams
Will Childs