{"id":17353,"date":"2026-05-09T23:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T22:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/?p=17353"},"modified":"2026-05-10T01:35:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T00:35:42","slug":"well-done-to-our-veterans-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/?p=17353","title":{"rendered":"Well done to our Veterans Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well done to our Blue team for winning the Veterans Inter League title for a second time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They weren’t troubled this year, winning the final by 29 against NSVCGBA A on Wrockwardine Wood, captain Mark Thomas the best of 6 winners 21-9. In the Semi Finals they defeated Mid Shropshire A, the team that beat them in last year’s final, by 13, Nick Davies best winner 8. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They had beaten Mid Shropshire A in the groups by 11, Martin Williams best winner 10, and also Tanners A by 27, Martin Williams best again 21-6. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Yellow team missed out in the groups despite winning 2 of their 3 games. They beat NSCGBA A first game by 6, Martin Beddow best winner 11, but then lost to Mid Shropshire C by 17 despite John Cooke’s best win of 11. In their last game they defeated Tanners B by 6, Martin Beddow and Craig Dugdale best winners 10. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well done to our Blue Team and thank you to those who played in both teams and did the league proud. Thank you to Tim and Mark for running the teams. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Captain Mark Thomas receives the Shield off County President Andrew Jones. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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The blue team with County President Andrew Jones.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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The Blue team with the Derek Wright Shield. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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The Blue Team. From left: Martin Williams, Nick Davies, Julian Cooke, Mark Thomas, Phil Lyttle & Dave Redge.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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The Yellow Team. Back from left: Pete Bound, John Cooke, Craig Dugdale & Tim Ealey. Front from left: Andy James & Martin Beddow. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Full results are here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well done to our Blue team for winning the Veterans Inter League title for a second time. They weren’t troubled this year, winning the final by 29 against NSVCGBA A on Wrockwardine Wood, captain Mark Thomas the best of 6 winners 21-9. In the Semi Finals they defeated Mid Shropshire A, the team that beat …<\/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-4vT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17353"}],"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=17353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17362,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17353\/revisions\/17362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}