Posts by Claire Joll

WELSH CROWN GREEN BOWLING ASSOCIATION- Welsh Qualifier for the British Centenary Mixed Pairs Comp. 2022

August 30, 2022 | Comments Off

The Mixed Pairs qualifier and Welsh final day was held at Craig-y-Don BC on Sunday 28th August 2022. Referees on the day were, DT Evans, Alan Davies, Arthur Peake and Richard Haywood. Entry was substantially higher this year with 17 mixed pairs contending on the day. The early rounds got underway with Nicola Boulton and partner Tom Loundes taking an excellent win 21-11 for their first game. Paul and Marie Hallett also progressed to the next round along with Gary and Sian Maddox, and Linda Williams with partner Ritchie Jameson. These four eventually made the semi final stage. Here Linda
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WELSH CROWN GREEN BOWLING ASSOCIATION- British Junior Champion 2022

August 23, 2022 | Comments Off

The BCGBA Junior Individual Merit was held on Saturday 20th August 2022 at Ashton Cricket Club, Greater Manchester. Wales may be only one part of the Crown Green world in Britain, but we punch well above our weight when it comes to talent. Our two representatives Ryan P Williams – Llanfair PG BC. ( 2022 Welsh Junior Merit Champion ) and Finley Hormbrey – Fron Park BC and 2022 Runner-up faced a field of other talented youngsters from across the world of Crown Green bowls. Ryan had a comfortable 21-10 win in his first match against Jack Brannon of Cheshire.
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WELSH CROWN GREEN BOWLING ASSOCIATION-BCG Ladies Dorothy Piearce Memorial Pairs.

August 17, 2022 | Comments Off

BCG Ladies Dorothy Piearce Memorial Pairs. This popular ladies pairs competition reached its final day on Saturday 12th August at Fox Lane Sports and Social Club ,Leyland, Lancashire. 32 pairs – two pairs from each county competing for the trophy. Wales has come close to clinching the title of champions before. Linda Williams and partner Belinda Lloyd started their campaign solidly with a 21-17 win in the first round against a couple from North Midlands. The second Welsh pair, Jackie Egerton and Sian Maddox had a resounding 21 -6 first round win against another North Midlands pair, but went out
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Welsh Disability Pairs – 14th July

July 15, 2022 | Comments Off

Write up from Stephen Rees: Another good day for our bowlers at Cardiff. Our learning disability bowlers had two pairs qualify from last weeks heats and progressed to the quarter-finals of the Welsh Learning Disability Outdoor Pairs competition today. Both managed to get through their Quarter-Final games this morning, and played their Semi-Finals this afternoon. Naomi Baelz and Millie Campbell won their Semi-final by a big margin. Philip Baylis and Harry Gwatkin got off to a slow start in their semi and were seven shots to one down at the half way point. both the boys did well to recover
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Drakes Pride Junior County Championship 2022

July 13, 2022 | Comments Off

WELSH CROWN GREEN JUNIOR TEAM TAKE BRONZE. In the Drakes Pride Junior County Championship 2022, Wales were frustrated in their attempt to get second place. A very strong Yorkshire team won the championship as was expected, but it was the contest between Wales and Shropshire for silver that dominated everyone’s thoughts. The Home side at Caernarfon brought some good results and it was Capt. James Todd who had the best win. Away from home at Telford Jess Lacey’s 21-8 set the bar high. It was a very close game, with a lot of head scratching from officials as the results came
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Update: Review of Bowls in Wales

July 11, 2022 | Comments Off

Work on the independent review of Bowls in Wales is now well underway. We have recently completed a survey of the Bowls community –thanks to the 600 of you who responded. We are now working on the next phase of the review -a series of interviews with key people/groups, public meetings and focus groups. As you can imagine, getting all of these in place is taking some time, but don’t worry –the work is continuing! We plan to host meetings on a regional basis -with at least one in North Wales, one in South West Wales, one or two in
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WELSH CROWN GREEN BOWLING ASSOCIATION – Senior Merit Final 2022 (Gwyn Morris Trophy)

June 28, 2022 | Comments Off

The Senior Men’s Merit final was held on Sunday 26th June 2022 at Nercwys Bowling Club. Our host for the day was President Simon Walker. WCGBA Management members were there in force to support the day along with a good crowd of spectators, happy to be back to an almost full calendar of events. Sandra West, Dusia Price, Dave Mathias, Jack Hunt ( our Deputy President) John Percy (WCGBA Patron) Peter Higham (Past President of Wales and the BCGBA) and Clive Morris – son of the late Gwyn Morris. The event was organised by Dave Walker and our Referees were
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Review of bowls in Wales: progress update

June 24, 2022 | Comments Off

First of all, a huge thank you to everyone that has expressed an interest in the review so far and, in particular to the nearly 600 of you that took the time to complete the survey. The survey has provided a very rich set of data to analyse and to shape the next stages of the review. To those of you who shared email addresses and asked to be kept informed, more detailed reporting and analysis will be shared with you as we get further into the process. In addition, we will be in touch to invite you to a
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Team Wales Announcement

June 9, 2022 | Comments Off

On Wednesday 8th June, Team Wales announced the 14 players that have been selected to represent Team Wales in Birmingham this Summer. Women’s Team Wales Commonwealth Games 2022 Anwen Button (triples and fours) Laura Daniels (singles and triples) Sara Nicholls (pairs and fours) Caroline Taylor (pairs and fours) Ysie White (triples and fours) Men’s Team Wales Commonwealth Games 2022 Jarrad Breen (pairs and fours) Owain Dando (triples and fours) Ross Owen (triples and fours) Daniel Salmon (singles and pairs) Jon Tomlinson (triples and fours) Team Wales Commonwealth Games 2022 Para’s & Visually Impaired Men’s para pairs: Paul Brown and
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Welsh Veterans Finals Day – 1st June 2022 – held at the Caernarfon Bowling Club.

June 9, 2022 | Comments Off

The Quarter Finals saw the following results: John Bonatti (Coed Talon) – 21 Geraint Roberts (Prestatyn Highbury) – 9 Elfyn Jones (Caerwys) – 21 Phil Holmes (Prestatyn Highbury) – 11 Kerrie Jones (Gresford Colliery) – 21 Bob Jones (Mold Rec) 15 Brian Hayes (Esclusham) – 21 Kevin Williams (Craig Y Don) – 15. The Semi Finals were dominated by the Jones’ with Elfyn beating John 21/12 and Kerrie beating Brian 21/11. The final was for the most part dominated by Kerrie who from 7/7, took what appeared to be an unassailable 20/10 lead. But with Elfyn finding his form
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