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Wednesday 16 July - Mandy update
Mandy plays her final match at Thanet Bowls Club at 9.30am this coming Saturday. Regardless of the result Mandy has an invitation to play in the National finals at Leamington in August.
Sunday 13 July - Mandy marches on
Today the Kent County Women's Semi-Finals were held at Maidstone and Mandy Catt having won our divisional final in the two-wood singles was up against Rachel Jenner of Appleyard who won the division three title. Mandy did us proud and came out on top, so she is now one match away from being the overall Kent champion in the two-wood discipline. Watch this space!
Thursday 10 July - County badge for Tom
Well done to Tom Attaway who this evening had a dominant win in the Unbadged Singles divisional final held at Aylesham.
Tom in action from an earlier Kent event
Wednesday 9 July - vibrant gardens
A credit to our gardening volunteers
Tuesday 8 July - another County badge!
Having performed magnificently at Birchington in the area finals of the two wood, Mandy Catt won comfortably and so qualified for her County badge. She now moves on to play other area finalists in the quest to become overall County champion. She carries our best wishes with her.
Saturday 5 July - County update
Two bits of good news. The Jeff Vane, Pete Foster, Joe Vandepeer triple progressed to next week's final as did Tom Attaway in the Unbadged singles. They will appear next Wednesday and Thursday at the same places, same times.
We must not forget Mandy Catt who won her County two-wood qualification and will now be appearing in the County finals being held tomorrow at Birchington at 9.30am. Fingers crossed.
Tuesday 1 July - four places to watch some bowls
The County men's competitions reach an advanced state at this time of year. If you like watching competitive bowls then there is plenty on offer over the four days starting with today.
Although we have no player involvement in the County Pairs semi-final we have the privilege of hosting it this evening from 6pm. Come along, after the heat is waning, and support the event.
For the rest of the week we have member involvement in the divisional semi-finals and our members do appreciate it when they receive some support on the evening.
Wednesday
Two triples teams are competing at Victoria Park in the Triples semi-final.
Joe Vandepeer, Pete Foster and Jeff Vane
Darren Ellis, Dean Ellis and Tom Attaway
Thursday
In the Unbadged semi-final being held at Aylesham we have Tom Attaway.
Friday
In the Fours semi-final to be held at Sandwich we have our four of Paul Causer, Mike Talbot, Alan Cornfoot and Steve Wells.
Do get along to one or all of these if you can. They all start at 6pm.
Friday 27 June - further County success
On an extremely blustery but warm evening Canterbury's entry in the County Fours consisting of Skip Steve Wells, Three Alan Cornfoot, Two Mike Talbot and Lead Paul Causer took on a strong four from Folkestone Park skipped by Under 25 England International Josh Rowe. The winners to progress to the Divisional Finals.
For much of the early part of the match Canterbury were well behind but gradually they clawed their way back so that just over the half way mark they had achieved parity.
There then followed some exceptional bowling from Canterbury, from all of the team in turn. Your correspondent at the match was particularly impressed with some saving shots from Skip Steve and on one end from "two toucher Talbot". At the 17th end Folkestone Park conceded.
Steve Wells with one of his saving shots
Mike, Paul, Alan and Steve watch on as Josh Rowe fires unsuccessfully at the 16th end
The four will now be on duty at the Divisional Finals held at Sandwich on 4 July at 6pm.
Monday 22 June - Tournament report - part two
Thanks are due to a whole range of people, the green-keepers, the bar and catering volunteers, Sue Mates our umpire of the day, Bob Keen and Barry Dilnot, the score-keepers, Marion Patmore and Liz Carraher, the raffle organisers.
We have already thanked the primary organisers Barbara White and Jenny Anderson. We have also thanked our sponsors for their support and, as can be seen in the following photos, two of them spent the day with us (Rik Tyler of Howden on the left and Nick Hardy of Woollard & Kent on the right).
So now we come to the most important results of the day. Well done to them all.
Winners (all from Victoria Park)
Sandra Tracey, Jean Johnson and Pat Jones
Runners-up (from Folkestone Park and Cheriton)
Kelly Farrar, Sharon Todd and Jean Phillips
Third place (from St Lawrence and Birchington)
Denise Armstrong, Trish Bax and Chris Rogers
Monday 22 June - Tournament report - part one
The weather was kind yesterday and 20 triples assembled to compete for significant cash prizes in our all-day tournament. The day would not have gone ahead without the support of three sponsors, Woollard & Kent, funeral services, Howden, insurance broking and In Action Bowlswear, bowling supplies.
The winners and more action will follow in part two, but for now a photo to show how the day started.
Friday 20 June - come and support the Ladies Triples Tournament next Sunday 22 June
An enormous amount of work goes into the organisation of the annual ladies tournament, primarily by Barbara White supported by Jenny Anderson (and many others). The sun is guaranteed to shine and numerous triples from around Kent are flocking to Canterbury to compete. So do come along and see some sparkling bowling. It starts at 10am and goes on for most of the afternoon. Light refreshments are available and the bar is, of course, open.
We are grateful to this year's primary sponsor Woollard & Kent for their generosity.
Friday 20 June - the finals just keep coming
Both triples in our County competitions got through on Wednesday evening to the men's divisional finals. So very well done to Joe Vandepeer/Pete Foster/Jeff Vane and to Darren Ellis/Tom Attaway/Isaac Tompkins (Dean Ellis substituting for Isaac at the finals) who will now compete on 2 July at Victoria Park at 6pm.
Things got even better on Thursday evening when Tom Attaway got through to the Unbadged singles finals. He will be trying to get his County badge to emulate Paul Causer last year. His first leg of the finals is at Aylesham on Thursday 3 July at 6pm.
Saturday 14 June - Ladies Drawn Pairs
Today, in a highly competitive all-day event, 20 evenly matched pairs competed for the Drawn Pairs trophy. Three matches were played by each pair and at the end of the day two pairs were undefeated having won two and drawn one match.
But there can be only one winner and having done the sums on shots scored the cup was presented to Mandy Catt and Liz Long (on the left).
It was such a close run thing, it would not be right not to show our runners-up on the day. So we have Julie Spooner (on the left) and Yvonne Gambrill.
Friday 13 June - progress for Joe
Bowls England has named its team that will participate in the British Bowls Under 25 International Series to be held at Ayr Northfield BC, Scotland, on Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 September.
The team has been announced following the squad training day held at Victoria Park, Royal Leamington Spa, on Sunday 8 June. We are pleased to note that Canterbury's Joe Vandepeer is included in the squad of 14.
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