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The winning numbers in today's draw were 1,4,5,6,13,14 the Jackpot was not won and will be £350 from 14 numbers next week. The £30 consolation prize drawn was paid out on a ticket sold by Les Henderson. Full details can be seen via the Weekly Draw page.

The League Results from Thursday and the updated League Tables can now be seen via their respective pages.

Queens Royal's Chris Barton and Craig Saville proved just too strong for the husband and wife pairing of Manor Road's, Bill and Sandra Astles in the Final of the Tom Bassnett Pairs at Magazine Bowling Club tonight. Chris and Craig were always in the driving seat against their opponents and apart from one tremendous end where Bill and Sandra completely surrounded the jack with four magnificent woods, the Queens Royal pairing had the edge throughout and won the match 21-13 despite some good bowling from the Manor Road duo. A competition which started at 6-00pm and didn't finish until 9-35pm, saw Chris and Craig defeat Ian Mitchell and Linda Mitchell 21-14 in a fine quarter final match before beating Mark Lynch and Colin Saville 21-16 in the semi final, Craig gaining revenge on his dad Colin for last year's final defeat. Bill and Sandra Astles had earlier beaten Peter Dodd and Keith Etches quite comfortably 21-11 before overcoming Kath Davies and Lynsey Gorman 21-16 in their semi final. The whole evening's bowling was played in a tremendous spirit and all the bowlers who made the finals night deserve great credit. The worthy winners received the new trophy, which was purchased with the help of a magnificent donation from Colin Saville, from Association President Keith Etches and Chairman, Mike Costall. I would like to thank all the spectators who turned up tonight and the Referee, Peter Fishwick and his wife Mary, who once again did a brilliant job with the raffle.

The 2008 Tom Bassnett Memorial Trophy Winners, Chris Barton and Craig Saville receive their Trophy from Association President, Keith Etches and Chairman, Mike Costall.

Chris Barton, Sandra Astles, Bill Astles, Craig Saville and Referee Peter Fishwick pictured before the Tom Bassnett Pairs Final.

All the finalists pictured before last night's Tom Bassnett Memorial Trophy Finals at Magazine Bowling Club

The following alteration to the Starred Player Lists has been made because the original Starred Player has not appeared in any of the first five League matches as required.

The draw for Saturday's Finals Night for the Tom Bassnett Pairs Memorial Trophy can be seen below. Finalists are reminded that the B.C.G.B.A. dress code must be observed on the night and the scheduled start time is 6-00pm.

Quarter Finals	Semi Finals	Final
Malcolm Johnson (West Kirby Victoria) & Frank O'Neill (Queens Royal)
Lynsey Gorman & Kath Davies (Sacred Heart)
Peter Dodd & Keith Etches (Manor Road)
Bill Astles & Sandra Astles (Manor Road)
Ernie Gartland & Andy Wainwright (Sandridge)
Mark Lynch & Colin Saville (Queens Royal)
Ian Mitchell & Lynn Mitchell (Manor Road)
Craig Saville & Chris Barton (Queens Royal)

The League Results from Thursday last week and the updated League Tables can now be seen via their respective pages.

	ASSOCIATION	P	W	D	L	F	A	+/-	PTS
1	GREATER MANCHESTER	1	1	0	0	445	407	+38	21
2	WALLASEY	1	1	0	0	408	392	+16	19
3	NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE	1	0	0	1	392	408	-16	12
4	EAST MIDLANDS	1	0	0	1	407	445	-38	10

	ASSOCIATION	P	W	D	L	F	A	+/-	PTS
1	CENTRAL LANCS & PENNINES	1	1	0	0	442	403	+39	21
2	SOUTH YORKSHIRE	1	0	0	1	403	442	-39	10
3	NORTH DERBYSHIRE	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

The winning numbers in today's draw were 3,10,11,12,13,14 the Jackpot was not won and will be £300 from 15 numbers next week. The £30 consolation prize drawn was paid out on a ticket sold to a Gladstone bowler. Full details can be seen via the Weekly Draw page.

I include the following report from Wirral & District C.G.B.A. as a warning to local bowlers that Individual Competitions, that at one time used to attract upwards of 200 competitors, are now in serious danger of being struck off the local bowling calendar. The Wallasey C.G.B.A. Festival last year had to be cancelled because of lack of entries and indeed the Executive Committee have made a decision that we will not run competitions that do not attract at least 32 entrants. There are various reasons for the lack of entries with too much bowls, the same people winning, poor prize money ( the Wallasey C.G.B.A. only pay out entry fees received in prize money, we do not subsidise prize money) being just a few. The Wallasey Individual Merit started in 1912 with the Wallasey Festival starting in 1967.

If anyone has any ideas at all as to how we can attract more entries to these competitions, the Executive Committee would be pleased to listen to your suggestions but as things stand at the moment, these competitions are in grave danger of being lost to the bowling community of Wallasey.

The Wallasey C.G.B.A. British Parks Senior Individual Merit competition is not affected by the above as we do not pay out prize money for this event as entry fees go direct to British Parks as part of the entry fees for the National Finals. The winner and runner up from our qualifying competition ( Monday June 9th) are entered into the National Finals and we do help with their transport costs to the National Finals.

In a battle of the brothers Finch from the Gladstone club it was older brother John chirping loudest as he emerged the 21 - 17 victor over Ritchie in a tremendous Wirral Association final full, of quality bowling. An early 10.00a.m. start at the Albany green saw ten candidates fail at the first - they did not arrive! Nevertheless despite a tricky green that has wintered poorly the remaining twenty one bowlers produced a day of top class bowling. Many of the matches were decided by fewer than four shots and the quarter-final between John Finch and Nick Burridge was worthy of a Waterloo final with toucher after toucher being delivered and then beaten - and on corner to corner marks. John maintained his form in the semi-final to emerge a comfortable 21-04 victor over Peter Holian from Lairds; while Ritchie had a fierce battle with clubmate John Roberts to secure his final spot 21- 19.
Ritchie maintained his excellent form in the final and led 9-2, and again 11-9. John then asserted himself to establish a 17-13 lead only for Ritchie to claw it back to 16- 18. A rare poor lead gave John the chance to step in to clinch the match with a double in a final that fully justified the status of the premier individual event for Wirral's bowlers. Of some concern for the future of these events however must be the continued slump in numbers entering the competitions and in the apparent lack of interest from spectators. This season has already seen a number of tournaments cancelled due to insufficient support and bowlers will need to be aware of the maxim 'use it or lose it'.
Quarter -finals R.Finch (Glad) 21 - J. Smith (Lairds) 20; J.Roberts (Glad) 21 - R.Preston (Lever) 13; J.Finch (Glad) 21 - N.Burridge (Glad) 17; P.Holian (Lairds) 21 - M.Bolton (Lairds) 11; Sem-finals R.Finch 21 - J.Roberts 19; John Finch 21 - P.Holian 04; Final J.Finch 21 R.Finch 17.

The following alterations to the Starred Player Lists have been made because the original Starred Players have not appeared in any of the first five League matches as required.

Queens Royal "A" Dave Croston replaces Mick Andrews & Peter Milnes replaces Mark Lynch

The League Results from Tuesday & Wednesday this week and the updated League Tables can now be seen via their respective pages.

There was some sad news from The Brighton Telegraph Club this week with the loss of their President and founder member of the club, Billy Roberts, who died in hospital after being in intensive care for a short while. Billy was a former Secretary as well as a long time player at Brighton Telegraph and will be sorely missed his family and many friends in the local bowling community. Billy's family have requested that there be only family flowers at the funeral service to be held at Landican next Thursday, May 29th at 12 noon, but if there are any donations they should be made to the Royal British Legion as Billy was a long standing member of that institution and they will in fact be giving him a full flag bearing ceremony next Thursday. All our sympathies go to Billy's family at this sad time and the family would like to invite mourners to the Telegraph Public House in New Brighton after the funeral service.

The Wirral & District C.G.B.A 2008 Senior Individual Merit competition takes place this coming Saturday (May 24th) at the Albany Bowling Club, Southdale Road, Rock Ferry. This is a One Day competition starting at 10-00 am (scratching time 10-15 am) and there will be refreshments available during the day. Spectators will be made very welcome at this fine venue and there should be top class bowling on view all day.

The Tom Bassnett Memorial Cup draw can be seen below with the Qualifying Rounds taking place next Tuesday 27th May at Hoylake Central and Burton's. There will be 4 pairings from each venue qualifying for Finals Night. The Final will take place on Saturday 31st May at Magazine Bowling Club.

To be played at Hoylake Central (6-00 pm Start 6-15 pm Scratch)
	Preliminary Round	First Round
1	Cr.Saville & C.Barton	Winner Match 1	Winners Qualify
	W.Atkinson & B.Leonard
2	B.Hepworth & D.McDonald	Winner Match 2
	M.Nelson & S.Scott
3	B.Smith & S.Smith	Winner Match 3	Winners Qualify
	C.Morrison & G.Richardson
4	E.Gartland & A.Wainwright	Winner Match 4
	D.Croston & M.Croston
		I.Mitchell & L. Mitchell	Winners Qualify
		G.Stead & J.Stead
		A.Buckley & A.Spearing	Winners Qualify
		P.Dodd & K.Etches

To be played at Burton's (6-00 pm Start 6-15 pm Scratch)
	Preliminary Round	First Round
1	P.Vaughan & D.Bromby	Winner Match 1	Winners Qualify
	R.Williams & N.Squires
2	W.Astles & S.Astles	Winner Match 2
	D.Smith & B.L.Smith
3	L.Gorman & K.Davies	Winner Match 3	Winners Qualify
	B.Owen & R.Franklin
4	T.Hurworth & L.Baker	Winner Match 4
	A.Cavanagh & A.Smith
		C.Saville & M.Lynch	Winners Qualify
		H.Robinson & P.Jamieson
		M.Johnson & F.O'Neill	Winners Qualify
		M.Costall & C.Jones

The winning numbers in today's draw were 7,9,13,14,16,17 the Jackpot was not won and will be £250 from 16 numbers next week. The £30 consolation prize drawn was paid out on a ticket sold to a Manor Road bowler.

The Wallasey C.G.B.A. British Parks Senior County sides got off to a brilliant start to their 2008 Division One campaign with an overall 19 points to 12 win against last years Division One, Section "A" winners, North Staffordshire. In the home leg on the excellent Quarry Vikings green at New Brighton Cricket & Bowls Club, Wallasey had 9 winners with Anthony Thompson leading the way with an excellent 21-05 victory. Alan Bainbridge, Peter Birch and Mathew Gilmore all recorded fine 21-10 wins and Paul Johnson enjoyed himself on his home green to post a 21-13 winning card. Les Henderson came through as a 21-14 winner and a couple of tough games were won 21-18 by Dave Gilmore and Steve Scott. Craig Saville also had a tough encounter but as Captain of the side he showed great determination to triumph 21-19 and complete the 9 home winners and a final 50 shot victory for Wallasey. In the away leg, also played on an excellent London Road Bowling Club green in Newcastle under Lyme, Wallasey had 5 crucial away winners, with Steve Nugent leading the way from number 1 on the card with a really fine 21-11 win. There were excellent 21-13 winning performances from John Lloyd, Bill Jones and "The Old Growler" himself, Colin Saville. Neil Sherbrooke in winning 21-15 completed the 5 away winners for Wallasey and the whole team did well to keep the eventual losing margin to 34 shots and enable Wallasey to claim the vital extra 3 aggregate points for the overall winning score and give us a final 19-12 points winning tally. Next up is a fixture against East Midlands on Sunday June 15th.

	Wallasey				Nth. Staffs		Nth. Staffs				Wallasey
1	C. Barton	17	v	21	D. Clutton	1	N. Tideswell	11	v	21	S. Nugent
2	L. Henderson	21	v	14	D.Beardsmore	2	L. Brown	21	v	14	J. Fitzpatrick
3	Cr. Saville	21	v	19	A. Jackson	3	P. Hulse Jnr.	21	v	08	J. Devlin
4	P. Johnson	21	v	13	T. Porter	4	M. Thompson	21	v	09	I. Sherbrooke
5	W. Astles	15	v	21	B. Booth	5	A. Jones	21	v	08	M. Cunliffe
6	D. Gilmore	21	v	18	K. Williamson	6	M. Brown	21	v	14	P. Saville
7	A. Bainbridge	21	v	10	D. Higginson	7	P. Burndred	21	v	08	G. Stead
8	S. Scott	21	v	18	D. Butler	8	T.Coleclough	13	v	21	J. Lloyd
9	P. Birch	21	v	10	D. Stanway	9	J. Mountford	21	v	12	W. Atkinson
10	A. Thompson	21	v	05	J. Parkin	10	P. Clarke	13	v	21	W. Jones
11	G. Lynch	09	v	21	J. Williamson	11	G.Boulton	15	v	21	N. Sherbrooke
12	M. Gilmore	21	v	10	J. Gosnall	12	R. Clay	13	v	21	Colin Saville
	Total	230		180	Total		Total	212		178	Total
	Points	11		3				9		5	Points
Overall Aggregate Points 3 to Wallasey
Final Overall Score Wallasey 19						12 North Staffordshire

Terrible news came from the Poulton Bowling Club today when they found that their Club House had been burned to the ground by vandals overnight. This fine old Club, actually 105 years old this year, have now been left without facilities and are in much need of assistance from any other clubs in the Wallasey & Wirral area. Poulton have lost all their equipment including all jacks, measuring equipment and members bowls etc. The bowling green is still in a playable condition and the toilet facilities at the top end of the green and the new shelter are also still intact but the devastation to the club is unbelievable and we must do all we can to help them in their hour of need. Please do not hesitate to contact me (Peter Dodd on 01928 716680) if you can help in any way or the Poulton Bowling Club Secretary, John Knowell Fenna on either 0151 609 0374 or 0778 755 8392.

The League Results from Wednesday & Thursday this week and the updated League Tables can now be seen via their respective pages.

The venues and handicaps for the Presidents Cup First Round have now been updated and can be accessed via the Team Competition page.

The Preliminary and First Round Draws for the Wallasey News Cup took place at Pensby Bowling Club today can now be seen via the relevant page in the Team Competitions page.

The Wallasey C.G.B.A. Executive Committee would like to thank all clubs and individuals who donated towards the success of our 2nd race night held on May 2nd. The final amount raised after all donations have been received is £593 and this will go a long way to enabling us to honour our promise not to increase fees for the foreseeable future. I will be sending letters of thanks to clubs with the First issue of League Tables next week and entry forms for the British Parks Merit, Junior Merit and Veterans Merit competitions.

The closing date for entries for the Tom Bassnett Pairs Competition is this coming Saturday May 17th. Entry fee is £4 per pair with the qualifying night on Tuesday May 27th and the Finals Night (last eight) taking place on Saturday May 31st starting at 6-00pm. Entries accompanied with the correct fee should be sent to Keith Etches whose address is in the current handbook.

The winning numbers in today's draw were 2,3,10,13,14,16 the Jackpot was not won and will be £220 from 17 numbers next week. The £30 consolation prize drawn was paid out on a ticket sold to a Harrison Park bowler.

The League Results from Wednesday & Thursday this week and the updated League Tables can now be seen via their respective pages.

The results from Tuesday night's Divisional Cup Quarter Final matches have now been updated on the respective, Harold Jones, Sheppick and Association Cup pages, which can be accessed via the team competitions page. The Draws for the Semi Finals (Tuesday June 24th) have also been updated.

The winner will gain automatic entry into the B.C.G.B.A. Senior Individual Merit to be played at Pilkington Recreation Club, Doncaster, on Saturday, 26th July 2008 and the Champion of Champions to be played at the Waterloo Hotel, Blackpool on Saturday, 27th September 2008

Lever Club, Port Sunlight, 12 o'clock noon, British Rail, St. Helens, 12 o'clock, Moorfield Road, Widnes, 1-00 pm

Contact either Colin Saville 0151 513 7770 or John Hignett 0151 259 5000 for details

The excellent Annual Charity Cup day of the Magazine Bowling Club takes place this year on Saturday June 14th. This year's beneficiaries will be the Wirral Society of the Blind and Partially Sighted. Last year the St. John's Hospice received £500 from this friendly Club, who would like to thank all who participated and entries for the Pairs Competition ( all male, all female or mixed pairs acceptable ) should be sent to Mr. S. Robinson, 8 Winchester Drive, Wallasey, CH44 2AZ by the closing date of May 26th. The entry fee is £3 per person which includes, as always, free refreshments for each competitor. The start time of the event is 9-00 am with a thirty minute scratching time. Of course the Magazine "Home Pub" will be open offering it's usual excellent selection of refreshments. If you require any further details Sam Robinson can be contacted at 0151 638 0394 and I can assure you that this is a really enjoyable day.

The winning numbers in today's draw were 4,6,10,16,17,18 the Jackpot was not won and will be £180 from 18 numbers next week. The £30 consolation prize drawn was paid out on a ticket sold by R.Hitchmough.

The line ups for the forthcoming County Match against North Staffordshire on Sunday May 18th are as follows. The home leg is at the top green of Quarry Vikings Bowling Club with the away leg being held at London Road Bowling Club, Newcastle under Lyme. Both matches start at 2-00 pm and spectators will be made most welcome.

At Quarry Vikings Bowling Club						At London Road Bowling Club
	Wallasey	Club		Nth. Staffs		Nth. Staffs		Wallasey	Club
1	C. Barton	Queens Royal	v	D. Clutton	1	N. Tideswell	v	S. Nugent	West Kirby Victoria	1
2	L. Henderson	Queens Royal	v	M. Hallam	2	L. Brown	v	J. Fitzpatrick	West Kirby Victoria	2
3	Cr. Saville	Queens Royal	v	A. Jackson	3	P. Hulse Jnr.	v	R. Franklin	West Kirby Victoria	3
4	P. Johnson	Quarry Vikings	v	T. Porter	4	M. Thompson	v	I. Sherbrooke	West Kirby Victoria	4
5	W. Astles	Manor Road	v	B. Booth	5	R. Price	v	M. Cunliffe	Manor Road	5
6	D. Gilmore	West Kirby Victoria	v	K. Williamson	6	M. Brown	v	P. Saville	Queens Royal	6
7	A. Bainbridge	Manor Road	v	D. Higginson	7	P. Burndred	v	G. Stead	Manor Road	7
8	S. Scott	Queens Royal	v	D. Butler	8	D. Ferris	v	J. Lloyd	West Kirby Victoria	8
9	P. Birch	Quarry Vikings	v	D. Stanway	9	J. Mountford	v	W. Atkinson	West Kirby Victoria	9
10	A. Thompson	West Kirby Victoria	v	J. Parkin	10	P. Clarke	v	W. Jones	Harrison Park	10
11	G. Lynch	Queens Royal	v	J. Williamson	11	M. Ferris	v	N. Sherbrooke	West Kirby Victoria	11
12	M. Gilmore	West Kirby Victoria	v	J. Gosnall	12	R. Clay	v	F. O'Neill	Queens Royal	12
	Reserves							Reserves
	P. Gartland	Sandridge						C. Borbeneaux	West Kirby Victoria
	R. Keeley	Sandridge						N. Boyd	Gladstone Squirrels
	K, Sherbrooke	West Kirby Victoria						D. Croston	Queens Royal
	T. Walker	Sacred Heart						J. Devlin	West Kirby Victoria
	D. A. Wilson	Manor Road						O. Doyle	Queens Royal
	D. Wilson	Manor Road						C. Saville	Queens Royal
								S. Smith	Sacred Heart

The Race Night last night at Sacred Heart was a very entertaining evening and the Association have benefited by almost £550 with some donations still to arrive. I will update a full figure as and when all pledges of donations have been received. I would like to thank the Sacred Heart Bowling Club and in particular Tommy and Joan Walker for all their help with the hosting of this event. I would also like to thank all the Ladies who helped out with the selling of tote tickets and Joe Connolly for his selling of the raffle tickets. I will be writing to all the clubs and individuals who generously donated to the event in due course to thank them for their help. Hopefully we will now be able to peg our affiliation fees for the foreseeable future and events like these go a long way towards that aim. Thanks again for all who helped out with this event.

The League Results from Wednesday & Thursday this week and the updated League Tables can now be seen via their respective pages.

Please make every effort to attend our Race Night tonight at Sacred Heart Social Club, starting at 8-30 pm. I would like to thank all our race sponsors and people who have bought horses and all Clubs and Individuals who have made donations to the event. I will of course be writing a letter of thanks to all clubs in due course.

The news articles for February to March 2008 & the news articles for April 2008 are now archived and can be accessed via their own page from the above site board.

The results from Tuesday night's Divisional Cup preliminary round matches have now been updated on the respective, Harold Jones, Sheppick and Association Cup pages, which can be accessed via the team competitions page. The Draw and venues for the Quarter Finals (Tuesday May 6th) have also been updated.

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