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Well what a start for the men’s Triples. Playing the host nations and one of the favourites live on tv, Buzz Mario and Ross toppling the Aussies 21-18 cracking achievement. Following up later with a comfortable win against Botswana 27-4. They hold command in their group and should be favourites to win it.

At the same time Rachel kicked off her campaign against Scotland falling 21-13. Never an easy game in a very very tough group. Rachel’s second match was the battle of the Channel Islands against the 2018 ladies singles World Cup winner, Guernseys Lucy Beere. Unfortunately Lucy got the better of Rachel winning 21-12.

Afterwards in the afternoon it was time for the ladies fours to start. First game for Jersey was New Zealand. Dropping a 7 ended up costly as they fell with a credible loss against a very good side 20-15. Straight after they were up against Zambia. After a worrying start they clawed back to 10-7 but couldn’t recover and fell to Zambia 22-9.

Day 2 starts again very shortly and live end scoring will be at the link on the bottom of the post for the few that want to stay up 🙂

Day 2

12am UK Time 6th April

Men’s Triples: Fiji v Jersey

Ladies Singles: Brunei V Jersey

3am UK Time

Men’s Triples: Brunei V Jersey

Ladies Singles: Wales v Jersey

7am UK Time

Ladies Fours: Norfolk Islands v Jersey

10am UK Time

Ladies Fours: South Africa v Jersey

https://results.gc2018.com/en/lawn-bowls/daily-schedule-date=2018-04-06.htm

Cracking start for the lads…

Watching through the most convoluted technical setup in the World, it was a joy to watch our triples conquer the Australians in their first group match.

Steady leading from Derek Boswell, some superb conversion Bowls from De Sousa who got picked on mercilessly by the commentators, and some fine drawing to add to counts and drawing to save from Skipper Ross Davis saw the boys come out on top. There were some unfortunate results that went against the Australian Triple – but the Jersey trio never let their heads drop (even after dropping 11 shots in a row having lead 8-0!) and caused an Aussie upset on the Gold Coast on Day One!

Rachel Macdonald put up a valiant fight against Scotland’s Caroline Brown in the first game of the Ladies Singles, but eventually succumbed 21-13. Everyone in Jersey will be behind Rachel going out and avenging her defeat in the next game!

For now folks, at 2am, its time for sleep!

With the opening ceremony all done and dusted it’s almost game time for our players!!

Day 1 5th April

12am UK time

Ladies singles: Scotland v Jersey
Men’s Triples: Australia v Jersey

3am UK Time

Ladies Singles: Guernsey v Jersey
Men’s Triples: Botswana v Jersey

7am UK time

Ladies Fours: New Zealand v Jersey

10am UK Time

Ladies Fours: Zambia v Jersey

All results can be seen at the below link

https://results.gc2018.com/en/lawn-bowls/daily-schedule.htm

Best of luck team Jersey #comeonJersey

 

OK, due to a slight scheduling mix up folks, your Easter present has arrived early!

All Touchstone National Competitions now online at http://www.bowlsjersey.com or follow the link: Touchstone National Competitions.

Best of luck to all competitors, and thank you for once again supporting our Competitions. Thanks also to our Competitions Secretaries for the hours of work put in to get us to this point!

Happy Easter to all members of Bowls Jersey!

We thought we’d like to give you a little Easter Treat… so tomorrow at midday all your National Competition draws will be published on http://www.bowlsjersey.com so you can see who you do battle with this year!

We can’t wait for the season to start, with our new Competitions included for the first time too introducing some new popularity to the events, and look forward to you all on the green!

#EasterMondayGreatReveal #Touchstone #BowlsJersey #SoonToBeOutdoor

Ladies pairs
Lost to Israel 38 to 9

Ladies triples
Beat Israel 15 to 11

Men’s pairs
Lost to Israel 18 to 11

Men’s triples
Beat Israel 17 to 8

Ladies singles – Ann Richardson
Lost to Spain 21 to 14

Ladies rinks
Lost to Spain 23 to 12

Men’s singles- Gus Hodgetts
Lost to Spain 21 to 12

Men’s rinks
Lost to Spain 22 to 11

Day three – morning session

Ladies singles
Lost to Cyprus 21 to 18

Ladies rinks
Lost to Cyprus 26 to 15

Men’s singles
Lost to Cyprus 21 to 17

Men’s rinks
Lost to Cyprus 28 to 18

Ladies singles
Lost to Israel 21 to 10

Ladies rinks
Lost to Israel 18 to 9

Men’s singles
Won against Israel 21 to 17

Men’s rinks
Lost to Israel 17 to 11

Update results of day 1 in Cyprus yesterday:

Ladies pairs
Sheila McGinnagle & Ann Richardson
Lost 24 to 14 to Spain
Won 18to 12 to Israel

Ladies triples
Maggie’s Jeunne, Jean Holmes & Yvonne Andrews
Won 15 to 10 to Spain
Lost 11 to 20 to Cyprus

Men’s pairs
Rob Clive & Gus Hodgetts
Drew 13 each with Spain
Won 20 to 10 to Cyprus

Men’s triples
Fred Jeunne, Graham Thomas & Merv Richardson
Lost 8 to 20 to Spain
Lost 14 to 16 to Cyprus

To all Bowls Jersey members,

Please ensure all your Bowls Jersey forms and entries are sent to fixtures secretary Sue Cockle no later than Saturday 3rd March.

If you have not received any forms, please contact your clubs secretary who will I’m sure be happy to supply some to you.

As some of you may be aware there are a couple of new competitions on the form that will be played if we have the right numbers.

We have a men’s and ladies national 2 wood singles competition which we hope will be a fun new competition for everyone so please sign up.

We also have an open select mixed fours, 2 men and 2 women and can be mixed between clubs. This will give you a chance to play with friends or family from other clubs who you may not have chance to play with in other Bowls Jersey Competitions so it is a great opportunity!!

We are only about 2 months out for all clubs opening again for a wonderful 2018 outdoor bowls season, so please get your entries in before next week!!

The following have been selected to play in the Cyprus Test match in March 2018:

Men
Singles – Ian ‘Skippy’ Hodgetts

Pairs – Rob Clive,
Ian ‘ Skippy ‘ Hodgetts (skip)

Triples – Graham Thomas
Fred Jeanne
Mervyn Richardson (skip)

Fours – Graham Thomas
Rob Clive
Fred Jeanne
Mervyn Richardson (skip)
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Women
Singles – Anne Richardson

Pairs – Sheila McGinnigle
Anne Richardson (skip)

Triples – Jean Holmes
Jackie Knight
Yvonne Andrews (skip)

Fours – Sheila McGinnigle
Jean Holmes
Jackie Knight
Yvonne Andrews

Congratulations to all and best of luck!!!