The Ladies Association held the Ladies Triples on Sunday 14th April at Peel Sunset bowling club with an entry of 13 Triples. The weather was fine although a chilly wind on peel promenade. The day saw five preliminary matches to get the event going. From memory last year’s preliminary round had a game that went on for over an hour and a half and today’s games were no different with Marown’s Debbie Leece, Rebecca Teare and Helen Withers dragging their game out 21-17 against Peels Jo, Louise and Helen. 

At the Quarter Final stage Castletown’s Hannah, Hilary and Tracy won 21-15 against Katie, Emma and Rebecca. South Ramsey’s Fiona, Kim and Jenny won 21-14 against homegreeners Beverley, Diane and Terri. Marown/Nobles Linda, Philippa and Sue won 21-9 against Pauline, Sue and Kerry. Marown’s Debbie, Rebecca and Helen 21-17 against Julie, Joyce and Lynda. 

This left the semi-final to be some really good play with top ranked players, which resulted in two very close games which could have gone either way. Debbie, Rebecca and Helen finished previous winners Fiona, Kim and Jenny 21-19 and Hannah, Tracy and Hilary saw off Linda, Sue and Philippa 21-18.

The Final saw great bowling from all players in a really close game. The Marown Trio dug in hard to come out eventual winners to claim the title 21-17.

The Association presented prizes and thanked Peel Sunset for hosting and all their member for helping out on the day.

Posh Paws of Peel Ladies Singles Open Competition held at Peel Sunset BC on Saturday 2^nd September 2023

The weather was wonderful, and the 32 ladies who entered enjoyed wall to wall sunshine all afternoon. Happy to see 2 junior ladies taking part with one going on to the second round; unfortunately, some notable players were knocked out leaving Caroline Whitehead (Port Erin) v Louise Tebay (Ballaugh) Janet Monk (Mooragh Park) v Celia Smith (Peel Sunset) Gill Dixon (South Ramsey) v Maureen Payne (Onchan) and Shirley Corrin (Peel Sunset) v Lynn Bennett (Visitor) to battle it out in the quarter finals. Caroline and Janet and Gill  and Lynn went through all ending in very close scores. An exciting final between Caroline and Gill ensued with Gill Dixon being the winner of The Posh Paws of Peel Trophy. Joyce Kelly (Peel Sunset) ran the competition. The President of Peel Sunset BC, Lynda Wilson presented the prizes and thanked the Sponsors and Posh Paws of Peel for their continuing sponsorship. 

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

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.

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.