Top Spalding Indoor Bowls Club talents Jordan Philpott and Chelsea Tomlin had their hopes of under-25 National singles glory dashed as they both lost in the latter stages of their respective competitions
The men’s and women’s events were staged at the same venue, City of Ely IBC, over the weekend.
Tomlin beat C Edwards, from the Whiteknights club, in a tie break in her first match at the finals, which was the last 16 of the country.
But in her quarter-final match, she lost to eventual runner-up L Smith (Westlecot) in straight sets.
Philpott won two matches, first beating Dolphin’s O’Thake in a tie break to book a place in the last eight – where he faced S Dunn from the Falcon club.
Each player won a set to force another tie break for Philpott, which he won to reach the semi-finals.
He was up against local favourite E Elmore who was playing at his home club, with Philpott again putting in a good performance.
He found himself in yet another tie break, but unfortunately it was one too many, with Elmore securing the victory and booking his place in the final, which he won to claim the national title.
- Spalding IBC’s mixed national team went marching into the quarter-finals of the Top Club competition as they dispatched Bromsgrove 16-0 at Wellingborough on Saturday.
They won comfortably overall, winning all five disciplines to reach the next round, where they will face Hartlepool on April 16.
- Spalding IBC’s seventh game of the Lincs over-60s league season was away against Lincoln B on Thursday.
Spalding competed well throughout on three of the five rinks, but Lincoln were always going to record emphatic wins on the other two.
Lincoln finished strongly on all rinks, winning on four rinks and drawing the fifth to take 17 of the 18 match points on offer for a 110-61 win.
The rink recording a draw was skipped by Roger Perkins ably assisted by Alan Browne, Rob West and Martyn Stanley. Captain for the day was David Lunn, assisted by Graham Hicks.
- Spalding IBC’s friendly team won 108-68 at Huntingdon in their latest clash.
The best winning rink was Abb Belding, Gill Haydon and Brian Skelton with a score of 37-7. Team captains on the day were Jan Sinclair and Maisie Belding.
- Spalding IBC’s mixed side lost their latest county league clash by 16 points to two at Louth – despite most rinks being incredibly close.
The best winning rink was Jan Sinclair, Gill Haydon, Anthony Cronin and Maurice Elding.
- The youngsters of Spalding IBC visited Grantham on Sunday for the regional School of Excellence event.
A full day of play saw some great bowling, with Spalding being well represented in the final standings.
The star of the show was Jonathan Field for winning the event and qualifying for the regional finals.
Danielle Wild (third) and Jamie Goodliff (fouth) could still qualify, depending on results elsewhere.
Nathan Puttrell (fifth), Aaron Barnes (seventh), James Cherry (eighth) and Bailey Day (12th) also performed well, making it a great day for Spalding.
