CALPE BOWLS CLUB

Happy New Year everyone ! In a year it´s inevitable that you are going to lose heavily at some stage so , tactically, we decided to get it out of the way in our first match of 2013. Javea Opals took no prisoners beating us ten – nil (95 shots to 52 shots ) and for good measure took the friendly game as well.

Paul Brown,Hugh Stevens and Geoff Pack lost 16 – 24
Liz Griffiths,Ernie Ritchie and Eileen Whitmore lost 15 – 16
Ted Campbell, Robert Daplyn and Margaret Anstey lost 10 – 34
Stan Walmsley,Alan Steed and Betty Walmsley lost 11 – 21
Roy Fuller, Steve Mable and Geraldine Stevens ( Friendly ) lost 14 – 18

Liz,Ernie and Eileen were really very unlucky. They played well enough to lead all the way through the game until the 17th end when Opals scored “four” to level at 15-all. In a very tight last end the Opals just got the shot and the win.

Stan, Alan and Betty kept up with a very strong Opals trio superbly led by John Coates and were level 8-all after ten ends. At that stage Opals had a nice little run ,topped off with a five shot conversion from John on the 13th end, and that was enough to see them home.

Paul,Hugh and Geoff were victims of the dreaded “13” syndrome.After seven ends they had established a convincing 13 – 3 lead but then got stuck on it whilst the Opals amassed 18 shots to lead 21 – 13 after 14 ends. The last four ends were shared and they could only reflect on the “seven” dropped on the eighth end which virtually sealed their fate

Ted, Margaret and Robert never really got going and won only two of the first eleven ends to trail 7 – 23.That was a mountain to climb but the Opals piled on the agony and took four of the last five ends to make certain.

In the “friendly” Roy, Steve and Geraldine gave as good as they got. The Opals caught them cold on the first end for five shots so to lose by only four was very creditable. Just shows you have to be on the ball right from the “off”

No excuses for the result – we did have several players making their debut or with limited match experience but the Opals played very well and their win enabled the other two Javea teams to leap-frog over us in the League. Hopefully we can improve ( well, we can´t go any worse) for our next game – we will have to if we are to take points away from BBC Lions.

See you next time !