Nicky Jones made history as he became the first Ifton bowler to win the SPBL Merit. He defeated Jamie King in the final 18, coming back from 17-11 down after an even start between the two bowlers. Nicky played the corners well in the Semi Final against Mike Beer, racing 14-3 up, and didn’t allow Mike to get back at him, winning 13. Jamie had an even start against Josh Bradburn, but from 13-10 down went 16-13 up and won 14. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the Quarter Finals Nicky Jones had a slow start against Josh Cotton but from 7-5 down went full corners and won 10. Mike went from 5-3 up to 12-3 up against Mark Thomas and won 8, while Josh Bradburn raced 10-2 up on Martin Lloyd and won 8 playing very well on the shorter marks. Jamie King was 5-0 down early on against Rich Lawson but went 10-5 up and won 10 in the corners. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thank you to Donnington Wood for hosting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well done to Nicky on his success, the start of a special week with his partner due over the next few days, we wish him them both all the best!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pictures will be updated over the weekend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Nicky Jones made history as he became the first Ifton bowler to win the SPBL Merit. He defeated Jamie King in the final 18, coming back from 17-11 down after an even start between the two bowlers. Nicky played the corners well in the Semi Final against Mike Beer, racing 14-3 up, and didn’t allow …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[113,136,38],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5VaGi-3CJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13934,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13933\/revisions\/13934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}1<\/td> Nicky Jones<\/td> 21<\/td> 18<\/td> Jamie King<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n 1<\/td> Nicky Jones<\/td> 21<\/td> 13<\/td> Michael Beer<\/td><\/tr> 2<\/td> Jamie King<\/td> 21<\/td> 14<\/td> Josh Bradburn<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n 1<\/td> Nicky Jones<\/td> 21<\/td> 10<\/td> Josh Cotton<\/td><\/tr> 2<\/td> Michael Beer<\/td> 21<\/td> 8<\/td> Mark Thomas<\/td><\/tr> 3<\/td> Josh Bradburn<\/td> 21<\/td> 8<\/td> Martin Lloyd<\/td><\/tr> 4<\/td> Jamie King<\/td> 21<\/td> 10<\/td> Richard Lawson<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"