{"id":16010,"date":"2025-04-08T10:36:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T09:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/?p=16010"},"modified":"2025-04-11T14:22:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T13:22:44","slug":"week-1-review-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/?p=16010","title":{"rendered":"Week 1 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wem make history, Wrockwardine edge thriller, Bayley win big<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wem USC made history as they won 10-6 at St Georges for the first time in the league’s history in week 1 of the Taylor Support Shropshire Premier Bowling League. Captain Andy Marshall said “we were delighted with the unexpected victory at St Georges. It started bad for us with two 8 losses (by best winners John Cooke and Kevin Keary) and Gareth Davies not scoring again from 16-12 up but I was 19-14 down and ran out which started the momentum shift. We had a strong middle with Colin Smith being the only loser against a very good Tony Rhodes. We continued the momentum in the back and just managed to get over the line for a very good win. We wish St Georges all the best for the rest of the season. They are a good bunch and no doubt bounce back.” Best winner for Wem was Sarah Weaver 21-6. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrockwardine Wood won a thriller 9-5 and by one chalk against Castlefields. Skipper Liam Stevens said it was a “brilliant opener, loved it from the first minute to the last – the game was on a knife edge throughout. Green was super difficult and the wind meant a lot of games weren’t pretty, but chuffed to have got over the line – it took a lot of hard graft against a brilliant side. A few top performances to pick out – Jon Palmer, Gary Neal (best winner 6 for Castlefields), Steve Broome (best winner 5 for Wrockwardine), Clay Flattley all superb. A few for me under the radar that made the difference though – Nathan Lacey scrambled to 15 from 10-20 right when we needed it, and Josh Cotton found a top bowl to get us over the line. Greg also managed to trouser a well earned tenner for his chalk by coming back from 12-20 to win. Biggest shoutout for me was Will Childs – 8-1 down against an absolute class act who nearly won our open. Played the green really smartly and got after a few to win when the game was turning against us. I said to the lads that any win would do before the game – chuffed to avoid an early\u00a0banana\u00a0skin.” Sir John Bayley gained an early advantage in the title race by winning 12-4 at Hanwood. Best winner was Stuart Rutter 9, with the home’s best being Dave Burton 16. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bylet will be happy with 5 winners at Adderley, led by Jamie Wyer’s 10 win. Skipper Cheryl Caswell says “it’s a long season and you can’t read too much into week 1. However, as a team I think we are glad to have given them a match and on reflection, maybe could have nicked one or two more but credit to Adderley who dug in on a tricky green caused by varying weight changes.” Best winner for the hosts was Chris Stretch 7. Their rivals Horsehay got 3 winners at Meole Brace, with their best winner being Olly Harris 13. For Meole it was Julian Cooke and Mark Thomas best winners 6. Highley and Burway both won 10-4 over Hanmer and Ifton respectively. At Highley it was Danny Statham best winner 7 for the home side and Matt Beeston 12 for the visitors. Duncan Pressley was best winner at Burway for the home side 5 and Ian Jones best for the away side 12. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click on date for full results<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Won<\/th>Agg<\/th>Pts<\/th>Home Team<\/th>Premier<\/th>Away Team<\/th>Pts<\/th>Agg<\/th>Won<\/th>H<\/th>A<\/th>CH<\/th>PP<\/th><\/tr>
8<\/td>227<\/td>10<\/td>Burway<\/td>V<\/td>Ifton<\/td>4<\/td>188<\/td>4<\/td>\u2713<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
7<\/td>212<\/td>9<\/td>Wrockwardine Wood<\/td>V<\/td>Castlefields<\/td>5<\/td>211<\/td>5<\/td>\u2713<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
9<\/td>237<\/td>11<\/td>Meole Brace<\/td>V<\/td>Horsehay<\/td>3<\/td>163<\/td>3<\/td>\u2713<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
7<\/td>218<\/td>9<\/td>Adderley<\/td>V<\/td>Bylet<\/td>5<\/td>203<\/td>5<\/td>\u2713<\/td>\u2713<\/td> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
8<\/td>233<\/td>10<\/td>Highley<\/td>V<\/td>Hanmer<\/td>4<\/td>175<\/td>4<\/td>\u2713<\/td>\u2713<\/td> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
4<\/td>197<\/td>4<\/td>Hanwood<\/td>V<\/td>Sir J Bayley<\/td>12<\/td>242<\/td>8<\/td>\u2713<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
6<\/td>199<\/td>6<\/td>St Georges<\/td>V<\/td>Wem U S C<\/td>10<\/td>202<\/td>6<\/td>\u2713<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wem make history, Wrockwardine edge thriller, Bayley win big Wem USC made history as they won 10-6 at St Georges for the first time in the league’s history in week 1 of the Taylor Support Shropshire Premier Bowling League. Captain Andy Marshall said “we were delighted with the unexpected victory at St Georges. It started …<\/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":[207,113,38],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5VaGi-4ae","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16010"}],"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=16010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16013,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16010\/revisions\/16013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}