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June 25th - this morning, following Wednesday's torrential rain which led to the bowls green being completely under water, 15 of the club members rallied to the SOS call and turned out to clear the green. With the Wimbledon Park lake having over-flowed and washed soil, stones and bark chippings on to the green, it took a huge effort from club members to ...
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June 23rd - after a great run in the Surrey Pairs, Pete and Martin faced a strong Wandilea pair for a place in the Surrey Area Pairs Final. With the game having to be played on a neutral green at South London, as Wandilea was water-logged, it turned out to be the Wandilea players who settled quickly. With the scores at 7- 21, Pete and Martin shook hands and ...
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June 23rd - this afternoon, following the torrential rain overnight, Wimbledon Park travelled to Heathfield for their 3rd mid-week triples game this year. With the green bowling quite heavily, WPBC found the going tough, but a surge mid-game saw Derek, Vernon and Barry go from 6 - 16 down at the mid-way point to 19 - 19, 5 ends later. Unfortunately the game ...
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June 21st - this evening Barry played his first match in the Wimbledon and District Men's Over 60's Singles. Playing over at Southey, Barry found the green immediately, taking control of the game to book his place in the quarter-finals with a 21 - 4 win.
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June 20th - this evening at Wimbledon Park, Pete and Martin took on South London in the postponed Surrey Pairs match. From the start the home pair drew well and managed to secure the win and a place in the Area semi-final by 23 shots to 11. Also at Wimbledon Park, Derek, Ossie, Vernon and Martin played the postponed Surrey Top 4 match. Despite WPBC winning ...
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June 19th - this afternoon Wimbledon Park travelled to Bolingbroke for their latest league fixture. At tea, after 10 ends, Mary, Ange, Jonathan and Barry were leading 14 - 8, Ossie, Betty, Vernon and Neil were leading 15 - 3 and Anne, Helen, Pete and Martin were trailing 7 - 11. After tea the game continued much as before, with the final scores being: ...
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June 17th - today's taster session saw a few players on the green, thank you to those who gave their support. The first bowls' party of 2016 took place this afternoon, thanks to Barry for arranging this and for setting up and clearing away at the end.
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June 17th - this morning Jonathan played in his 2nd Middleton Cup match, this time against league leaders Berkshire. Aiding Surrey to a strong 27 - 16 win on his rink, Surrey took all 22 league points by beating Berks by 142 shots to 103.
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June 17th - this evening Neil welcomed Bolingbroke to Wimbledon Park for the W&DBA Men's Singles. Neil started strongly to lead 9 - 0, only for his opponent to play some great final bowls to take singles on the next 4 ends to close the gap. Winning 7 ends to 6, it was Neil who advanced to the next round, 21 - 6.
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June 16th - this evening the weather took control of proceedings at Wimbledon Park. The cloudburst rendered the green unplayable leaving Pete and Martin to play their Surrey Pairs against South London on Monday 20th June, along with Ossie, Derek, Vernon and Barry who host Merton Park in the Surrey Area Top 4.
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