Archives for Crown Green

Welsh Champion of Champions – Crown Green

October 6, 2019 | Comments Off

WELSH CROWN GREEN BOWLING ASSOCIATION The 2019 season reached its culmination with the Welsh Champion of Champions tournament held at Abergele BC on Sunday 6th October. The day was hosted by WCGBA President, Dave Mathias, in his last role as President and run by Dusia Price , Glyndwr Area. Our Referees were DT Evans, Alan Davies, Arthur Peake and Peter Hayes. The field of sixteen players featured champions from a number of Welsh events throughout the year including the prestigious Merits and a variety of qualifying competitions. Game one saw the 2019 Welsh Vet’s Merit winner pitted against the 2019
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Welsh Crown Green Bowling Association

May 8, 2019 | Comments Off

The first match of the Endsleigh County Championship 2019 was played on Sunday 5th May with Wales playing Greater Manchester. The Home venue was Broughton BC and the Away Aston CC. Read more about the day’s events here.
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British Male & Female Champion of Champions – Crown Green Bowls

October 2, 2018 | Comments Off

It may be getting to the close of the 2018 season, but the ‘dragon’, it seems is not ready to hibernate. At the Waterloo Champion of Champions event in Blackpool at the weekend, Wales had much to celebrate and be proud of. In the men’s competition on Saturday 29th September John Bailey and Mathew Worden were flying the flag for Wales and they passed the baton to Linda Williams and Sarah Nicholas for the Ladies competition on the Sunday. The men’s event hosted an impressive field with some of the games’ best bowlers from across the Crown Green world. Young
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British Ladies Merit – Crown Green Bowling

August 22, 2018 | Comments Off

The British Ladies Merit was held in July at Helsby Community Sports Club. ‘All the greens were brown’ but the Welsh ladies were on fire. Our three qualifiers from Wales, Jane Bowler ( Conwy ), Sarah Nicholas ( Gresford Colliery ) and Linda Williams ( Hawksbury ) seemed to find the conditions to their liking in as much as the standard of their performances was to win each one of them a place in the quarter final. From the first set of blocks, Linda made steady progress with 21-18, 21-17 and 21 -20 to reach this stage. Here she met
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Welsh Senior Merit 2018 – Crown Green Bowling

August 22, 2018 | Comments Off

The annual Senior Championship for Wales at Brymbo Sports and Social Club. The event was hosted by 2018 Welsh President, Brenda Jones who was delighted to welcome everyone to this exceptional venue. A warm welcome was extended to the 2018 BCGBA President, Keith Andrews, who has many friends in Wales, and to Allan Jones and his wife Sue, from Bowls Wales – a co ordinating body for bowls across Wales. Their mission, to promote bowls as a life long sport for all and to raise awareness of all bowling codes. They had travelled from South Wales to experience for themselves
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British Junior Merit – Crown Green Bowling

August 22, 2018 | Comments Off

The phrase ‘It’s Coming Home’ has been bandied about in sporting circles all summer. As a country, we can truly say this as the British Junior Merit Trophy returned to Wales at the weekend with a brilliant victory for Matthew Worden ( Gresford Colliery ). Together with Sam Williams ( Cunliffe ), they represented Wales at the competition which was held this year at Netherseal Bowling Club in Derbyshire. The event was hosted by the Deputy British President 2018 Graham Jackson. The field of 32 players from across the crown green bowling world included a few unfamiliar faces and names.
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Junior Merit – Crown Green Bowling

August 22, 2018 | Comments Off

It was definitely a case of ‘thunderbolt and lightning’ at the Welsh Junior Merit at Benllech on Sunday 27th May. Deputy President, Dave Mathias was our host with Referees DT Evans, Arthur Peake and Alan Davies. This year we had a smaller number of entries than previous occasions with a field of 24 players from across North Wales. The weather was blustery with light rain as the games got underway in the preliminary round. As the rain eased and everyone settled down for the competition, the following names went through to the last 16 – Ben Hewitt, Ieuan Pugh, Harry
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Wales v Cheshire (Ladies County Championship 2018)

May 23, 2018 | Comments Off

The 2018 Ladies County matches got underway on Sunday 20 May. Wales played Mid Cheshire with the Home venue at Min Y Don Bowling Club and the Away venue, Rudheath Sports and Social Club, Cheshire. The Referee for the afternoon was Stan Warburton. Past President Dusia Price, EGB Member Peter Higham, WCGBA Secretary Pauline Lindley and Patron John Percy all came to support the match. The Wales squad fielded eleven players from the previous days’ Welsh Ladies Merit and at the Home venue, one player was to mark her debut for the senior side. Amanda Nicholas ( Gresford Collier) led
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Welsh Ladies Merit

May 23, 2018 | Comments Off

The Ladies Individual Merit was played on Saturday 19th May – competing with the Royal Wedding and FA Cup Final among other things. This year it was held at Cunliffe Bowling Club. The event was hosted by President Brenda Jones who also welcomed each competitor and started off each match. Referees on the day were Jim Clarke, Tom Lockyer and Peter Hughes. There was a much smaller entry than previous years, but those taking part gave spectators quite a feast of talent. The outstanding quality of the bowling throughout the day was commented on by several spectators and this comes
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East meets West – the latest from the Crown Green circuit

May 23, 2018 | Comments Off

Sunday 13th May should have marked the start of the Welsh Junior campaign for the 2018 British Junior County title. Due to the group arrangement this year, Wales are in a group of five. This meant our Juniors had an open date. However, the opportunity to get all potential players together for a friendly was too good to miss and this was held at the Oval Bowling Club, Llandudno. All in all there were some 45 juniors. These came from the east of Wales, Wrexham and Flintshire Areas and from the West, Glyndwr and Gwynedd. The event was managed by
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