Week 6 - May 14th - Whitefield Bowling Club

After the good start to the 2008 season, week 6 was potentially the Banana Skin that could halt our winning streak. Alan Seel has strength in depth in an experienced squad, who could all be in with a chance of winning on the still slow Hollinhurst Green.

Duds continued his impressive run by demoloshing Alan Seel too 8, in what on paper could have been a very close game. A polished performance was hopefully the springboard for the rest of the team to emulate??? Tommy Taylor & Charlie efficiently disposed of stiff opposition to 10 & 14 respectively & I'm sure Graham Lamb & Gary Sandiford would have fancied their chances for a win?? Waggy went down to 14 to Steve Monaghan & in the last game of the 1st half John Pearson had a Battle Royal with his old adversary Dave Howells. In a game they both lead numerous times, a draw seemed a fair result, but at 20-19 up & in sight of the winning post, John fell at the final hurdle to some excellent precision Bowling from Dave.

Alan must have been more than happy with 2 winners from the 1st 5 Blocks & with Eggy just losing game 6 (20-21) to the most improved player of the past 2 seasons, Ian Meadowcroft, it was anybody's game at 3 games a piece.

In what I billed as the "Game of the Night" Les Toth showed why he is the reigning Averages Winner & anihilated the un-beaten Dave Wright to 5. Dave battled, but had no defence for the masterclass from Les. Les was particularly humble in his Victory............... was he Bollocks, he told anyone who would listen how good he is!!!!!!!!! & from what I saw, he was good.
With the game 4-3 in favour of the Whitefield lads, a few Hollinhurst Bums began to twitch nervously??!!!!
Just when you need a hero to emerge from the Ranks, up pops the legend in his own dinner time, Johnny Blades. After a spat with his Captain the previous week over team selection, he put his differences behind him to dispose of Bruce Holden to 8. Performance of the Week goes to John.
At 4-4 the last 2 games would prove decisive & with Kenny up against the rock steady Mick Middleton & myself against a Hollinhurst Homester, Kev Newbury, the balance could tip either way. Kenny scraped home to 17 & at 18-10 up, I almost grasped defeat from the Jaws of victory by easing home to 16 after an awful spell of 5 ends without reply.

Final result 6 winners to 4 & the Agg 185-157 gave us a 9 -6 win over a battling WBC side.

With our next game only 2 days away, due to the re-arranged Champions League clash, we had 2 days to savour a job well done.