Team Sheet November 2023
Sunday 26 November
Northamptonshire VPBA
Oxford City & County IBC
2.15p.m. start
TEAM (In alphabetical order).
Marc Boulton, Chris Cox, Tim Cox, Eddie Dorling, Alex Fleming, Bob Foster, Ron Havard (Guest), Roger Hopkins, Allan Hunt, Bill Jarvie (Guest), Bernie May, John McGeough, Michael Morris (Guest), Roger Oliver, Mike Petersen,Bill Pointer, Alan Rowe, Nigel Satchell, John Stephens, Ian Whelpton (Guest).
Reserves in Alphabetical order.
John Hurren
21 Nov 23
Team Sheet October 2023
Sunday 22 October 2023
Bucks VPBA
Oxford City & County IBC
2.15p.m. start
TEAM (In Alphabetical order)
M. BOULTON, B. CLARKE, C. COX, T. COX, A. FLEMING
B. FOSTER, R. HOPKINS, J. HURREN (GF) D. LATTIMORE
B. MAY, P. McGRATH, M. MORRIS (Guest)
R. OLIVER (Vice Chairman), M. Petersen, R. Radband (Guest GF)
B. Ray (Guest), A. Rowe, N. Satchell, J. Stephens
I. Whelpton (Guest)
RESERVES (In alphabetical order)
M. Acock, R. Havard, J. McGeough, B. Pointer
23.9.23
Our last indoor fixture for this season, against Bucks VP's, went down to the last end with teams on 100 shots each, no pressure. At five ends we were eigtheen shots adrift with the acting Chairmans rink fourteen shots adrift and still waiting to win an end.
By the half way mark we had got back into the game and led by 4 shots on 49-45. Rink three won their 5 ends 6-5 but were still behind by 13 shots. However, our rink 5 were steaming ahead with a 17 shot lead, whilst the other three rinkswere having very close games being just 2 shots in arrears.
The three-quarter mark saw us still hanging on to the lead, which had dropped by one to 72-69.
So to the business end of the game. On rink 1, Bill Pointer, John Stephens, Alan Wase and Alex Fleming shared the points in their very close game, but lost by one shot over-all, 13-14.
On rink two, Bob Foster, John McGeough, Paul McGrath and Mike Andrew also took part in a tight battle, but a pair of two's in Bucks favour on the last two ends saw the Oxfordshire rink go down 18-21.
Acting Chairman Roger Oliver, taking his first game in the absense of Eddie Dorling, in the company of Ian Whelpton, Alan Rowe and Chris Cox,wondered what had hit them. Yes, they were the ones well adrift at the 5 end mark and it didn't get any better as the game progressed. They were the last match to finish with the match levelon 100 shots each. There achievement for the afternoon was reaching double figures in their 12-31 loss, but the 3 dropped on the last end Bucks the game. Try as they did they could not handle the Bucks skip who played a blinder .
Bill Jarvie, Tim Cox, John Hurren and skip Nigel Satchell played in a topsy-turvy match. From 2-10 after 7 ends a five followed by a two brought them to within one shot of levelling the score. Bucks took the next four ends for a 10 shot lead, then Nigels foursome collected 13 shots to the oppoents 3, levelling the score at 22 all with one end to play. Alas in was and too far, dropping a three to go down 22-25.
The rink of Roy Radband, Ron Havard, Brian Clarke and Michael Morris won two-thirds of the 21 ends claiming the highest winning rink prizes with a convincing 32-9 scoreline which had four 4's and a 5 in it.
This was Buck's first victory over Oxfordshire for a very long time. We will see if we can get back to our winning ways when we play them outdoors in May on the all-weather green at Chess Vale BC.
Apologies to Roger, taking his first game for the VP's, for us not doing as well on the carpet, as he did at the after-match speech.
