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Jean kelly winners Marown A by 3 points in close contested final

Jean Kelly Memorial Winners 2023 - Marown A

Photo: Arnie Withers

Jean Kelly Final was held on Friday 3rd September at Onchan

South Ramsey V Marown A on paper this was always going to be a close contest. Which ended up a nail biting final down to the last end. South Ramsey had a +22 handicap where Marown had + 11.  The 1st 5 games off saw (including handicap) South Ramsey leading 110 and Marown 102. 

Judy Kelly 13 v 21 Rebekah Kelly

Jenny Moore 21 v 10 Helen Withers

Helen Groen 21 v 18 Debbie Leece

Kim Hargraves 17 v 21 Rebecca Teare

Sue Collier 16 v 21 Philippa Taylor

The next 3 games off saw Marown close the gap on South Ramsey 157, Marown 154

Fiona Kennish 14 v 21 Lyn Bolton

Elaine Moore 12 v 21 Linda Cadamy

Gill Dixon 21 v 10 Clare Cooper

With the last game on it was all quite intense and some good bowls played by both players early on in the match. The final end was wide open with Smith leading 19-15 and holding 1 just managed to get her second bowl inside Morgans to seal the match.

Gill Morgan 15 v 21 Jayne Smith

South Ramsey 172 v 175 Marown A

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Ladies Millenium 4’s concluded after postponed by torrential rain

Millennium Fours Winners 2023 - Lynda Cadamy, Trish Bill, Lyn Bolton & Margie Tasker

Photo: Collin Holland

The Ladies Millenium 4’s was completed on the morning of Sat 2nd September, due to having to be postponed due to horrific weather the previous month.

The semi final stage saw eventual winners Margaret Tasker, Trish Bull, Linda Cadamy and Lyn Bolton take on Debbie Leece, Clare Cooper, Helen Withers and Rebecca Teare. 45 v 35. Cath Harvey, Rose Waterworth, Loiuse Tebay and Maria Dimsdale played Jenny Moore, Gill Dixon, Kim Hargraves and Fiona Kennish 32 v 35.

The final saw Trish Bull 9 V 15 Jenny Moore, Linda Cadamy 15 V 14 Kim Hargraves and the doubles game Margaret Tasker and Lyn Bolton 15 V 5 Fiona Kennish and Gill Dixon. Which resulted in a final score of 39 V 34 to Margaret, Trish, Lyn and Linda. 

The Ladies Association presented the Trophy and prizes and thanked Douglas Bowling Club for accommodating the 2 dates to hold the competition. Also thank you to the players for returning to conclude the event on a much sunnier day.

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Castletown A win Ladies Open Age League

CTH Insurance Ladies League Champions 2023 - Castletown A

Photo: Phil Cain

The final games of the Open Age League were played on Wed 30th August. Castletown A maintained their lead at the top when they played Mooragh Park with a full house 189 V 78 (9-0) This is Castletowns 3rd year on the run winning the league and their 17th time winning over the last 30 years which is a great achievement. 

All of the top 3 teams won their games with a full house which shows just how close it was at the top of the table.

In 2nd Place saw Marown A 189 V 62 Douglas (9-0) and 3rd Place South Ramsey 189 V 63 Castletown B (9-0) 

Port St Mary 154 V 152 Nobles (4-5) Port St Mary managed to just take the win by 2 points with some extremely close games on the night.

Another really close game was Ballaugh 149 V 143 Port Erin (4-5) with Ballaugh taking this win by 6 points.

Marown B 161 V 139 Peel Sunset (5-4) Marown B just taking the win. 

Well done to all teams on a good season. It’s been great to see so many youngsters playing so well each week, with a few taking their first game wins too.  We look forward to seeing what next season holds. 

Well done again to winners Castletown A on their 17th Open Age League 2023 Title.

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Kath Kinley wins Ladies Over 60’s Championships

Ladies Over 60’s Champion 2023 - Kath Kinley

Photo: Collin Holland

The Ladies Association Held the Over 60s Championships on Tuesday 29th August in the baking sunshine at Castletown Bowling Club. 

It was a home green Final with Joy Stephens and Kath Kinley who both play for Castletown. Resulting in Kath Kinley overjoyed to win the Over 60s championships with a win 21-7. Both Kath and Joy have shown great form this season in the O60s league with Kath playing 21 games with 21 wins and Joy playing 10 games with 10 wins. 

The day started with an entry of 25 ladies. Kath met her teammate Hillary Kermode in the prelim rounds coming out 21-11. This took her through to next play Pauline Worrall (Port Erin) where Kath showed her green experience to win 21-5. Joy had her work to do drawn to play Margaret Tasker (Port St Mary) who we all know masters any green with ease. But Joy played fantastic, drawing the perfect shot on the last end to take her through to the next round 21-20. 

In the quarter final stages Kath overcame Caroline Corlett (Nobles) 21-10. Elaine Moore booked her place into the semi finals beating Lynda Wilson (Peel Sunset) 21-3. Joyce Ogden overcame teammate Linda Cadamy (Marown) 21-10 and Joy carried on her superb play against Peel Sunsets Joyce Kelly 21-13. 

Booking their places into the final Kath next saw off Elaine 21-7, and Joy played Joyce to book her 1st championship final 21-17. 

It turned out to be a very long day, with the 1st games starting at 10am. It was mid afternoon before the final got underway. Where Kath was on brilliant form taking the Championship title with a 21-7 win.

The Ladies Association made the presentation and thanked Castletown for hosting the Championships.

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Castletown A win Derby Match with Full House

Port St Mary A 84 V 97 Nobles (3-3) Jo Smith and Sue Gawne (Nobles) both had good wins to single figures. As did Port St Mary’s Brenda Harkard.

Castletown A were on good form when they played their B team.Winning all 6 games. Castletown B 70 V 126 Castletown A (0-6)

Ballaugh 99 V 88 Onchan A (3-3) 

Mooragh Park B 51 V 121 Peel Sunset (1-5) Peel were in great form winning 4 of the games to single figures. Gillian Malpass was Mooraghs lone winner 21-16.

Finch Hill 89 V 93 Mooragh Park B (2-4) Both teams had a couple of single figure wins. Maureen Hamilton ( Mooragh Park) just managed to hold off Anne Hon 20-21. 

Marown hosted Port Erin A who just managed to take the win from the marown side. Caroline Whitehead’s 21-6 win helped the Port Erin side edge enough points to take the win. Marown 94 V 107 Port Erin A (3-3) 

Douglas A 53 V 126 South Ramsey (0-6) A full house for the visitors South Ramsey, with Judy Kelly, Elaine Moore and Jill Quayle all winning by single figures.

An extremely close game for Port St Mary A 84 V 97 Nobles (3-3) But Nobles Sue Gawne and Jo Smith winning 6-21 and 3-21. Nobles stretched ahead to take the win.

Thursday 17th saw the JMS Veteran Shield Quarter Final games played with the following results:

Marown (+24) 145 V 130 Peel Sunset (+32) 5-1

Port Erin A (+28) 127 V 134 Mooragh Park A (+33) 3-3

South Ramsey (+24) 114 V 132 Castletown A (+20) 2-4

Ballaugh (+26) 152 V 88 Mooragh Park B (+48) 6-0

The Semi Finals will be held on Thursday 31st August.

Ballaugh V Marown

Castletown A V Mooragh Park A

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Ladies Open Age League results in a draw for Castletown B verses Port St Mary

Ballaugh 131 V 155 Marown A (3-6) Ballaugh hosted Marown on this rearranged date and it turned out to be an evening of gale force winds. Marown dug in deep against the recently strong Ballaugh side.

Nobles 163 V 131 Douglas (7-2) Sylvia Kennaugh and Sue Gawne (Nobles) both had comfortable 21-9 wins. Douglas side Shannon McMullan had a great 4-21 win. 

Peel Sunset 162 V 149 Ballaugh (4-5) The Peel side played a great home green and although they only won 4 of the 9 games. They took the oval match win on points, with Linda Wilson and Joyce Kelly both winning on single figures.

Castletown B 135 V 135 Port St Mary (4-5) This was a second draw for the Castletown B side, who fought hard to win all those points to secure the draw, with the help of Barbara Young and her 21-0 win.

At Marown we saw the 2nd Derby game with the A team coming out on top 171 V 105 (8-1) with Elaine Dewhirst marown Bs only winner 21-3. 

South Ramsey 178 V 130 Mooragh Park (6-3) South Ramsey are pushing hard onto Marown A for that 2nd spot on the league table, with only 1 game left and only 25 points between 2nd and 3rd place. Castletown A now sit in top spot a comfortable 32 points ahead of marown. The McMullan youngsters madison and Bailey played extremely well on the away green both winning 21-18 and 21-15 against very strong players.

Port Erin 68 V 189 Castletown A (0-9) A full house for the Castletown side just pushed them that bit farther away on the league table to sit them comfortably in top spot. I’m sure they will be chilling that champagne ready for the last game of the season on Wed 30th August.

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Debbie Leece wins Barbara Lee Cup in emotional Final

Barbara Lee Cup Finalists

Caroline Whitehead & Debbie Leece

Debbie Leece played exceptionally well  to come out eventual winner to Caroline Whitehead, winning 21-19 in a very close final. Caroline took control of the game in the early stages leading 12-4 at one point. But Debbie fought hard to level at 18-18 on the 29th end. Debbie then took a 2 to put her ahead 20-18, but Caroline wasn’t ready to give up and scored a single on the next end 20-19. Debbie scored a single on the next end and lifted the trophy in a very emotional presentation.

12 Ladies started the day off. At the Quarter Final stage Debbie overcame Kim Hargraves 21-19. Sue Gawne 21-4 Clare Cooper, Charlotte Clarke 21-18 Jo Corkill, and Caroline overcame Margaret Tasker 21-9. In the semi final stage Debbie played Sue where Debbie was on a mission to the final winning 21-16. Caroline played the other remaining Marown home greener Charlotte winning 21-14.

The Ladies Association thanked Marown for hosting the competition and everyone who helped on the day. 

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Peel Sunset overcome Marown in O60’s Ladies

There were a few close games this week, the first being Marown who hosted Peel Sunset who were in exceptional form and took a win by just 4 points. Marowns captain Philippa Taylor won 21-1. Final result Marown 99 V 103 Peel Sunset (3-3).

Castletown B 95 V 104 Onchan A (3-3) Maureen Payne (Onchan) won 21-6 to help her team secure the win. 

Nobles 91 V 102 South Ramsey (3-3) Marilyn Ellison (Nobles) won 21-9 and for south Ramsey Judy Kelly 21-5 and Elaine Moore 21-9. 

Mooragh Park 84 V 81 Port St Mary A (3-3) This was the closest game of the day, with the Ramsey side taking the win by just 3 points. With Lots of single figure wins for both teams. This game could have gone either way and was extremely close right up until the final end.

Port Erin A were the winners of the day taking maximum points when they played their B team. The B team came close to taking 2 games off them with Sue Rickets and Sue Wilshaw both reaching 19 against their opponents. Port Erin B 61 V 126 Port Erin A (0-6).

Ballaugh only dropped 1 point 125 when they hosted Mooragh Park B 56 (5-1) Chis Sims took the Parks only win 20-21. 

Douglas A were unfortunate to be a player short when they hosted Castletown A. Paula Garrett and Kay McKiernan both won for the Douglas side. But the strong Castletown team took the other 4 wins all to single figures. Douglas A 54 V 116 Castletown A (2-4)

The JMS Veteran Shield Prelims sponsored by Janet Latham were also played.

Marown (+18) 138 V 90 Castletown B (+41) 5-1

Port Erin B (+35) 96 V 137 Castletown A (+17) !-5

Ballaugh (+30) 142 V 115 Onchan A (+44) 4-2

Finch Hill (+24) 123 V 133 Port Erin A (+36) 4-2

South Ramsey (+24) 141 V 106 Douglas A (+37) 5-1

Peel Sunset (+24) 122 V 120 Nobles (+21) 3-3

Port St Mary A (+25) 120 V 141 Mooragh Park A (+32) 2-4

The next round will be played on the 17th August.

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Ladies Open Age League

Marown B 133 V 145 Nobles (5-4) Marown put up a good fight against the strong Nobles team. Winning 5-4 on games but just losing out on the points. Well done to all the new and young players in both teams all picking up points for their teams.

Castletown A 177 V Peel Sunset (7-2) The Peel side picked up a couple of good wins against the tough Castletown A team. Linda Wilson (Peel) won 21-14 and Shirley Corrin 21-16.

Mooragh Park 156 V 134 Port Erin (5-4)  Janet Monk and Madison McMullan both won to single figures for the Ramsey side, as did Sue Wilshaw for Port Erin.

Douglas 174 V 138 Castletown B (6-3) Jane Lothian and Shannon McMullan (Douglas) both won to single figures, helping to secure the win for Douglas.

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Port Erin A only drop 2 points in Ladies O60 Match

Port Erin A 124 V Castletown B (5-1) The Port Erin side were in fine form when they welcomed Castletown to their green. Sheila Preston (Castletown) just lost out 21-20.

Whilst at home Castletown A 120 V 48 Port Erin B (5-1) Gwen Tuck was Port Erins lone winner 15-21. For Castletown  Kim Foy and Anne Oates both won 21-0.

Peel Sunset 107 V 87 Ballaugh (4-2) The Peel side have stepped up a gear this second half of the season. Joyce Kelly won 21-2.

Mooragh Park A 105 V 79 Nobles (4-2) Janet Monk and Gail Corrin (Mooragh) both had single wins as did Nobles Marilyn  Ellison.

Onchan A 72 V 121 Marown (1-5) Unfortunately Onchan were a player short, giving Marowns Sue Hammond a 21-0 walkover win. Norma Cowell was Onchans winner 21-16.

South Ramsey 15 V 96 Finch Hill (3-3)  This looked like the closest game of the day. Finch Hills’ Sue Calley just pipped Anne Gale at Ramsey 20-21.

Port St Mary A 121 V 76 Mooragh Park B (5-1) Trish Bull for the Southside won 21-3. The lone winner for the Ramsey side was Gill Hammond 16-21.

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