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Monday 14th May - Jonathan and Neil travelled to Wandilea for the first round of the National Family Pairs this evening. Honours were shared early on and after 11 ends the score stood at 10 - 12 before Wandilea picked up a count of 7 shots. After 19 ends hands were shaken as Jonathan and Neil conceded with the score at 14 - 26.
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Sunday 13th May - Sunday's league match against Streatham Park was postponed from last week and we are very grateful to our ladies who kindly postponed their fixture against Heathfield to allow us to squeeze in the hastily re-arranged league match. Playing against the 2017 league champions in our opening fixture was always going to be challenging but what ...
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Saturday 12th May - In the afternoon we welcomed Croygas for the home leg of our two friendly matches against them. Unfortunately the weather took a turn for the worse and the match was curtailed early. Thanks to all our players, Barry, Vernon, Martín, Sabrina, George, Rosalind, Ange, Christine and Pete who were leading comfortably when rain stopped ...
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What a testimony to Wimbledon Park! As the top 3 clubs in the Bowls Tours 2017 recruitment competition were read out by the Surrey President at the County AGM, it was Wimbledon Park who were singled out with the comment that, 'The second runner up was the ever successful Wimbledon Park!'
Congratulations to everyone who contributed to the 2017 recruitment ...
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Sept 24th - The final day of the season saw the annual One Day Round-Robin Competition. 16 competitors took to the green, playing for the Challoner Cup. Each player was drawn in a group of 4 with games of 6 ends played and group winners advancing to the semi-finals. At the end of the group stages, Alison was the winner of group A on shots difference from ...
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Sept 23rd - This afternoon we travelled to Bolingbroke for our final league match of the 2017 season. With Bolingbroke unfortunately 2 players short, there were 25% deductions for their scores on two of the rinks. George, Maggie, Vernon and Pete were 8 - 14 down after 10 ends but a strong second half saw Wimbledon Park turn the game around to win 20 - 17. ...
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Sept 20th - This evening the final of the season long club-night aggregate competition took place. Playing for the Aggregate Shield were Sabrina and Barry and what a final it turned out to be. With the final being played over 12 ends, it was Barry who took control leading 10 - 3 at the 6-end half-way mark. Not to be outdone, Sabrina mounted a comeback and a ...
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Sept 20th - This afternoon we travelled over to Merton for the final mid-week triples match of the season. Maggie, Anne and Ossie found the going tough and were 1 - 17 down after 9 ends. Honours were even in the second half with each team scoring 5 points, leaving Merton the winners by 22 shots to 6. Rosalind, Christine and Barry also had a battle. Winning ...
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Sep 17th - This afternoon we visited Wandilea for our latest league match. Anne, Helen, George and Martin were 4 - 2 up after 2 ends but a run of 7 ends without scoring saw the score transformed to 4 - 17. Unfortunately, despite a brief run of points the second half also belonged to the host side who went on to win 30 - 15. Rosalind, Cherry, Ossie and ...
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Sep 16th - This afternoon the Ladies played the Men in the annual club fixture for the Memorial Cup. With both sides experiencing a high number of unavailable players the format was two triples. Mary, Ange and Maggie held Ossie, Barry and Matthew in the first few ends before the Men managed to pull away. The second triple once again saw some excellent ...
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