{"id":17682,"date":"2026-09-18T12:14:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/?p=17682"},"modified":"2026-09-18T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:15:00","slug":"week-26-preview-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/?p=17682","title":{"rendered":"Week 26 Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Fields &amp; Bayley battle for title, 5th &amp; 10th places up for grabs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Castlefields know that an 11-3 win is enough to deliver their 13th Taylor Support Shropshire Premier Bowling League in week 26. They host Wem USC, who they beat 14-0 last season, and just need two points to guarantee 9th, but that would require Burway beating Sir John Bayley 14-0, a feat they did achieve though in 2017. The Bayley know they need to win big to have any chance of reclaiming the title. Woore are 7 points ahead of Hanwood in 5th and know 8 points at Meole Brace will confirm that place if Hanwood defeat Ifton 14-0. Ifton will stay in 4th regardless of the result, with Wrockwardine Wood also guaranteed 3rd place. They travel to Highley who need 5 points to guarantee a top half finish, with Meole aiming to take advantage if they don&#8217;t get those. The battle for 10th sees Burway start with a 7 point advantage over St Georges who travel to Hanmer. Hanmer need to beat them 10-4 to overtake St Georges in 11th. The bottom two meet as Adderley host Bylet, Bylet needing 8 to beat White Horse&#8217;s record points total. Adderley need to outscore Hanmer by at least 4 or St Georges by 10 to move up a place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Week 26 Fixtures:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Castlefields v Wem USC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Burway v Sir John Bayley<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meole Brace v Woore<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hanwood v Ifton<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highley v Wrockwardine Wood<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hanmer v St Georges<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adderley v Bylet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fields &amp; Bayley battle for title, 5th &amp; 10th places up for grabs Castlefields know that an 11-3 win is enough to deliver their 13th Taylor Support Shropshire Premier Bowling League in week 26. They host Wem USC, who they beat 14-0 last season, and just need two points to guarantee 9th, but that would &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":[213,113,38],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5VaGi-4Bc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17682"}],"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=17682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17683,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17682\/revisions\/17683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}