Emerald
Isle Bowls Club
Now
the nationals are over we are back to normality but what a
cracking two weeks it was with the Emerald Isle being honoured
to host the opening and closing ceremonies.
Thanks
to vice president Stuart Hemmings, who is on the national
committee, and club president Tom Dalgleish, who chaired the
clubs’ national sub committee we put on a show second
to none.
Thanks
are also due to an army of other peopleincluding the members
who gave up their time to mark, sometimes as much as three
times in a day.
Mel
O´Dell and his team ran the competitions expertly and
smoothly, and and John Wood is thanked the upkeep of the plants
around the rink, as are Betty Hemmings and her team for organising
such the dinner dance plus the selling of raffle tickets and
Heinz and the bar staff who again supported us.
On
the playing front Keith Jones reached three finals, winning
two and losing the other on the last end. In winning the singles
for the third year running he also came away with the player
of the championship award.
Congratulations
to Lenny Fisher on reaching the singles final too. This was
a great performance especially in the semi final when he beat
the world number two Nick Cole.
Congratulations
also to Raul Bennett and Ian Rogers in reaching the men´s
pairs semifinal and to Val Sherry, Ann Horswell and Joan Lindgren
who lost the semifinals of the triples to the eventual winners.
There
are also congratulations to Ann Horswell and Shirley Verity
who travelled to Benitachell to the Champion of Championship
pairs event and reached the finals losing on the last end.
Well
done also to Ian Rogers and Brian Duff who travelled north
to represent the club in the men´s pairs.
The
A and B teams in the Kings Cup continue their great run, the
A team winning 12 - 0 at Quesada and the B 12 - 0 at La Marina.
In
the SABA match at home against the Lemon Tree, Emerald Isle
won four and lost two, 140 shots for and 92 shots against.
Results
EI first:
Jenny
Smith, Sally Cordell and Steve Cantley 14, LT 16; Ron Yates,
Liz Page and Peter Boyes 21, LT 20; Marilyn Shatwell, Lily
Stewart, Michael Lockett 16, LT 21; Eileen Wadhams, Pat Crozier,
George Crozier 24, LT 10; Pam Lockett, Rita Bennett, Gerald
Shatwell 32, LT 15; Barbara Collins, Frank King, Peter Jarrold
33, LT 10.
Delighted
to see Danny White back playing at Emerald Isle. We have missed
you
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Bowling
Blind on the Costa.
British Expats enjoy a different bowling experience.
The
BBC is the first of seven venues that will be visited. For
those of you who may have no knowledge of this sort of thing
let me explain. A team of three consists of a fully-sighted
bowler and two other bowlers who may have partial or no sight.
The sighted bowler acts as skip and directs operations from
the 'Head'. This is where the jack has come to rest, and where
all the bowlers are attempting to nestle their woods.
On each rink a string is laid along the centre line of the
rink (and secured of course). The skip for the blind bowler
will tell his bowler how far away from the mat (that is where
all bowlers have to stand to deliver their bowls) the jack
has come to rest once it has been delivered. This can be from
25 to 38 yards, and he will call out 32 yards. The blind bowler
will then step onto the mat and with his or her non-bowling
hand feel the 'String', to determine the centre of the rink,
make a mental assessment of the required line of delivery
and the weight required to reach the jack and deliver the
bowl. The information as to where the bowl has come to rest
is then relayed back to that bowler by the skip, in the form
of '4 feet at half past four'. The jack being the centre of
the clock face. The bowler will then attempt to correct on
the next delivery.
The opposing skip on rink 8 will call out 'Two yards at eleven
o'clock' whilst on rink seven another skip is relaying another
message 'Six inches at six o'clock' and so on down the line
to rink one. All of this, along with the usual info from the
non-blind skips like 'You're supposed to be bowling on rink
three not rink four'. And this is how the 'Blind' bowlers
compete against us fully sighted bowlers. It was a lively,
noisy, entertaining morning of bowling. The overall score
was BBC 6 BBs 2. With a few very close calls. It truly is
amazing what you can do when you set your mind to it. Thank
you to the 'Blind' bowlers for a very pleasant morning. Around
the corner at Javea Green we had a modicum of success in the
Iberian Open where in the mixed trips Fali Croft, Mike Croft,
and Andy Nelson reached the finals with the score all square
on the 15th end, then the wheels came off and they came in
a gallant and well-deserved second.
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