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.

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.

Castletown A defeated Top of the table Marown A by just 1 point. The Marown side won 5-4 on games.

Kathryn Kinley (Castletown A) won 21-4 and Rebecca Teare (Marown A) 21-7. All of the other games were pretty close as to be expected. Final result Marown A 154 V 155 Castletown A (5-4).

Nobles hosted Ballaugh and the Nobles side won games 5-4 but unfortunately lost the match on points 134 V 141 with the experienced Cath Harvey, Michelle Cubbon and Louise Tebay all winning well to single figures, as did Grace Gawne and Tina Hampson for Nobles.

Peel Sunset 152 V 161 Port Erin (6-3) Lots of close games in this match. But Di Benson and Jacqui Elliott both won 21-6 to help secure Port Erin enough points to take the match win.

 Due to games rained off the previous week a couple of rearranged games were played. Ballaugh 174 V 121 Port St Mary (8-1) and Port Erin 179 V 106 Castletown B (8-1).

South Ramsey were in fine form on their home green when visitors Douglas played. With Elaine Moores 21-0 win and Kim Hargraves 21-1. Jenny Moore, who picked up last month’s player of the month, won 21-2. The Douglas side really had their work to do and managed to score 86 overall. South Ramsey 175 V 86 Douglas (7-2) Douglas winners Katie Jacobs 21-9 and Emma Sayle 21-19. 

Castletown B 130 V 159 Marown B (3-6) Jo Corkill, Joyce Ogden and Celia Joughin all had single figure wins for marown. As did Linda Dawson and Susan kerruish for the Castletown side. 

Port St Mary 174 V Mooragh Park 113 (6-3) Port St Mary secured 4 of the games to single figures securing them a good lead and overall win.

Peel Sunset Bowling Club hosted the open lady’s doubles competition, The Ballapaws Trophy on Saturday 29^th July. 

There were 14 pairs entered. The winners of the competition were Paula Firth and Sue Gawne who had convincing wins through to the final when Philippa Taylor and Joyce Ogden did their utmost to stop them in their tracks the final ending in a score of 21-18. The losing semi-finalists were Cath Parker and Val Allwood and  Jenny Moore and Kim Hargraves. It was extremely pleasing to see a number of juniors entering, they were a credit to Douglas BC.

The presentation was by the sponsors Ballapaws Boarding Kennels & Day Care.

The quarter final stage of the Jean Kelly was held on an extremely wet evening. 

Mooragh Park (+47) 179 – 163 (+22) Castletown A (4-5) Some good wins from te Mooragh Park side, Janet Monk 21-5, Katie Johnson 21-4 and Madison McMullan 21-9 helped secure them the win.

Castletown B (+53)  149 – 228 (+53) Marown B (2-7) Linda Dawson and Aalish Moore were the Southside winners. Youngster Grace Cooper (Marown) had a great 21-5 win. securing Marown B’s spot in the semi final.

Ballaugh (+36) 175 – 200 (+25)  Marown A (3-6) Ballaugh pushed the Marown B team all the way with Captain Michelle Cubbon just losing out 20-21 and Maria Dimsdale 19-21.

Port Erin (+50) 167 – 200 (+34)  South Ramsey (3-6) The South Ramsey side managed a couple of single figure wins to secure their spot in semi finals.

The draw has been made for the Semi Finals to be played on wednesday 16th August  as follows:

Mooragh Park V Marown A and South Ramsey V Marown B.

The Over 60s League is looking very similar to the open age league table. With Marown currently lying in top spot but with a game ahead of Castletown A and South Ramsey. Can they hold onto the top spot?

Marown were a player short when they visited Mooragh Park B, so they will be happy to still walk away with the win. Mooragh Park B 63 V 92 Marown (2-4)

Ballaugh just came out on top 110 V 97 Ports St Mary A (3-3). Port Erin A 123 V 89 Douglas A (5-1) Douglas had to give a game away and with 3 of the loses to 20 they still managed to pick up a few points. Castletown A 126 V 68 Finch Hill (6-0) The southside were on their usual top form taking all the 6 games Joy Stevens just managed to hold off Anne Hon 21-20 to secure her team the full house.

Peel Sunset 121 V 89 Castletown B (5-1), Onchan A 105 V 77 Port Erin B (4-2), South Ramsey 101 V 85 Mooragh Park A (3-3)

Only 4 games left in the Open age league and with only 55 points separating the top 3 teams the title could easily go down to the very last game. Marown A currently sit in 1st place on 3136 with Castletown A only 9 points behind on 3136 leaving South Ramsey chasing the top on 3080.

Marown A pushed themselves to the top of the table with a good away win at Port Erin 103-186 with Port Erin’s Alison Stockham winning their only game 21-18.

Castletown B had a close fought game when they welcomed the strong Ballaugh team to their green.  Castletown B 144 v 167 Ballaugh (4-5).

The Douglas team youngsters are showing great improvement helping their team record a win against Port St Mary who were unfortunately 1 player short. Douglas 169 V 112 Port St mary (6-3).

Nobles 130 V 159 Castletown A (3-6) The southside team were just too strong for the Nobles side. Sylvia Kennaugh and Grace Gawne for Nobles had some great wins to single figures. 21-7 and 21-6. 

That just leaves Marown B 89 V 183 South Ramsey (1-8)  Rosemary Winckle managed a win for the marown side 21-15, but the Ramsey side was just too strong winning 4 of their games to single figures.

Jean Kelly Prelim

Port Erin (+53) 200 V 199 Nobles (+43) The Port Erin side just managed to take the win by 1 point overall taking full advantage of that 10 point advantage. Susan Inch (Port Erin) won 21-9. Marilyn Ellison’s 21-7 and Sue Gawne’s 21-6 wins for nobles wasn’t quite enough and left them with the title of the plate in their sight.

Castletown A (+13) 196 V 158 Douglas (+57) Even with a 44 point advantage Douglas still had a lot of work to do, unfortunately for them Castletown were the much stronger team winning 8 – 1 on games. Paula Garrett took a 21-15 win for Douglas.But with Castletown winning 5 of their

 games to single figures they were always on the top.

The final prelim game was Peel Sunset (+45) 183 V 202 Ballaugh (+39) The Ballaugh team won 6-3 on games with 3 of them to single figures, giving them enough points to take them on to the next round, where the will face Marown A. 

Ladies open age league saw a couple of games that were postponed by the weather the week before played this week.

Mooragh Park 103 V 175  Marown A  (2-7) Janet monk 21-13 and Madison McMullan 21-15 were the Park winners.

Castletown B  121 V 180 Peel Sunset (2-7) Debra Cooper came close to another win for the southside just losing 20-21 to Gill Clarke.

Castletown A 165 V 131 South Ramsey (6-3) Kath Kinley (Castletown A) and Elaine Moore (South Ramsey) both recorded 21-6 wins.

Marown B 175 V 107 Douglas (6-3) Celia Joughin, Joyce Ogden and Lil Smith all had single figure wins.

Marown A scored a maximum win at home against Peel Sunset 189 V 105 (9-0) Clare Cooper, Rebekah Kelly and Helen Withers all took single figure wins.

Castletown B hosted the castletown Derby with a much improved scoreline to their last derby. 78 V 187 (1-8) Linda Dawson for the B team taking a win off the A team 21-19. 

Other Results: Douglas 107 V 171 Mooragh Park (2-7), Nobles 175 V 132 Port Erin (6-3), Port St Mary 143 V 163 Marown B (4-5), South Ramsey 172 V 118 Ballaugh (6-3),