{"id":16554,"date":"2025-09-19T00:48:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T23:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/?p=16554"},"modified":"2025-09-19T00:48:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T23:48:30","slug":"week-26-preview-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/?p=16554","title":{"rendered":"Week 26 Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Fields need just three, Battle for 5th and 8th concludes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Castlefields just need three points to retain the Taylor Support Shropshire Premier Bowling League. They host a Horsehay side knowing they are finishing bottom and will face a Play Off in two weeks time, so will be looking to find some form. Sir John Bayley knows that the title is out of their grasp, but will look to end on a high against Highley, but the visitors could still finish in 5th place, although they are guaranteed their best ever finish in the league barring a big win for Meole Brace or Wem USC. They currently sit 2 points behind Hanwood who travel to Hanmer, who will be relaxing knowing they will not be finishing bottom this season. Burway are 6 behind Hanwood in 7th and host Wrockwardine Wood who will be finishing in 3rd place regardless. The battle for 8th is mainly between Wem USC and Meole Brace, who meet each other in Leek Street with Meole needing 6 winners, or winning the aggregate with 3,4 or 5 winners, to stay above Wem. However a St Georges win at the Bylet could mean they bypass both teams and finish in 8th place, while Bylet could still overtake Adderley above them in 11th, who travel to an Ifton side that will finish in 4th place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Week 26 Fixtures<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Castlefields v Horsehay<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sir John Bayley v Highley<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hanmer v Hanwood<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Burway v Wrockwardine Wood<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wem USC v Meole Brace<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bylet v St Georges<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ifton v Adderley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fields need just three, Battle for 5th and 8th concludes Castlefields just need three points to retain the Taylor Support Shropshire Premier Bowling League. They host a Horsehay side knowing they are finishing bottom and will face a Play Off in two weeks time, so will be looking to find some form. Sir John Bayley &hellip;<\/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":[206,113,38],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5VaGi-4j0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16554"}],"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=16554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16558,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16554\/revisions\/16558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}