The Royal Mail Cart BC national men’s Bowls England Top Club team got their campaign this season underway, with a tricky first round trip to Horncastle BC.
The outdoor competition is over the best of five points with the five disciplines of two-bowl singles, four-bowl singles, pairs, triples and fours.
In the two-bowl singles, Ben Wilson got the opening point for the Mail Cart, winning by 14 shots to seven. In the four-bowl singles Ashley Caress got home 21-14 to leave Mail Cart requiring one of the three other matches to win.
This was achieved, with Mail Cart getting the victory on all rinks, collecting a straight 5-0 success.
- Another week of local bowls league action began in the section 4 EBA fours league, with Royal Mail Cart A away against Castle, and Royal Mail Cart B at home to Moulton Harrox.
For the A side, it turned out to be another strong performance winning by 75 shots to 44, collecting the maximum eight points.
They won on all three rinks with the top winning rink skipped by Martin Spencer, with Steve Hill, Martin Simpson and Graham Smith.
For the B team, Harrox proved too strong and they lost by 41 shots to 69, losing 8-0.
- After a first win of the season last week in Division Two, Royal Mail Cart A were hoping to continue their success with a match away against Spalding Town BC B.
They couldn’t get over the winning line losing by 40 shots to 44 and gaining one rink and two points from the ten available.
The winning rink was skipped by Rob Lacey, with Aarron Bates & Joy Hardacre.
- Royal Mail Cart B started their Division One season strongly with two wins from two matches and played at home against Spalding Town BC A, with a close 52 shots to 47 success, collecting eight points from ten available.
They won two of the three rinks, the top rink being skipped by Dan Mills, with Charlie Thurston and Andrew Thurston.
- On to the Thursday night league which saw the two Mail Cart teams in the 12 players division face off.
The A team started the season with two wins from two games but the B team had only picked up one rink point over their three matches.
The B team did well and competed for long periods on some rinks, but the A side got the win by 96 shots to 53 and gained the maximum six points.
The A team won on all three rinks with the top winning rink skipped by Steve Hill, with Sally Humphries and John Allen.
- The Friday afternoon league saw Sutton Bridge BC as the host club in Division One.
The A team had a bye but the B team played Carter’s Park BC B and saw Graham Astley, Alan Shakespeare and Joe Mellon win by 31 shots to ten and maintain their current league lead.
- After a setback last week at home, the Royal Mail Cart Friday night league team were hopeful of getting back to winning ways away against Spalding Town BC but lost out again, this time by 52 shots to 63 but gaining two rinks and two points from the maximum five available.
They won two of the three rinks but lost heavily on the third which cost them two aggregate points. The top rink was skipped by Joe Mellon, with Joy Hardacre and George Richardson.
- The Bowls Lincolnshire men’s county Middleton Cup team, won their opening group stage match by 22 shots (108-86) and collected 20 points from 22 against Bowls Derbyshire away at Stute BC.
Players representing Lincolnshire from Royal Mail Cart were Ashley Caress, Andy Dunham, Kevin Ekins, Steve Hill, Dominic McVittie, Dan Mills, Chris Mycock, Jordan Philpott and captain/manager Martin Spencer.
The Bowls Lincolnshire ladies’ county Johns Trophy team lost their opening group stage match by 30 shots (77-107) collecting just four points from the maximum 22 against Bowls Leicestershire at Burton House BC.
Representing Lincolnshire from Royal Mail Cart was Tracy Philpott.
