KENT COUNTY SHORT MAT BOWLING ASSOCIATION
Affiliated to English Short Mat Bowling Association
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Date of
last Update: January 2009
Archive: 2007/08 Season
County Squad End of Season Dinner.
The 2007/08 End of Season dinner was held at Swale Indoor Bowls Club, Sittingbourne on 19 April 2008.
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Rita Horn receiving the “A” Team Manager’s Player of the Year award. |
Alan Harwood and Alan Hadfield with the Triple “A” Trophy for the “A” Team’s Best Team Performance shield. |
Alan Hadfield receiving the “A” Team’s Players Player of the Year award. |
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Sonia Watson receiving Premier Team Manager’s Player of the Year award. |
Members of the “A” Team supporters club. |
Mark Wiedeholz with the shield for the Highest Points Gained in Every Match. |
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Mark
Wiedeholz receiving Premier Team’s Players Player of the Year award |
The following report has been submitted by Peter Richards, Newington SMBC.
Short mat bowlers from all over Kent and Essex converged on Strood Sports
Centre on Monday 5th May 2008 in aid of the Demelza House Children’s
Hospice.
This event now in its 10th year has become one of the
most popular annual bowls competitions on the Short Mat calendar, with
this year, one hundred and eighty bowlers taking part.
The organizers Alan, Jack and June Faulkner from Sittingbourne would like
to thank the Kent County Short Mat Bowling Association for the free loan
of all of the equipment for the day and Strood Sports Centre for the free
use of the hall. Without their continual contribution this event would be very
difficult to run.
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Winning
triple of Rod Wynn, J Bassett and David Burgin with Robert Tolson from
Demelza House. |
This year’s competition was outstanding. With six teams winning all of their
games in the morning session they all carried six points forward to the
afternoon games. How things can change, with a change of mat, the afternoon
session bought about a change in fortune for many of the teams. Only two teams
won all of their afternoon games, gaining another six points.
The final placings came down to who had the highest shot total for
the day, giving one of the closest finishes in recent years.
This years Champions were John Bassett, Rod Wynn and David Burgin,
from Kemsing Short Mat Bowls Club with 12 points and plus 54 shots. A
close second were S Killington and team from East Hanningfield (Essex) with 12
points and plus 38 shorts. Third place went to A Connors and team from Tovil
SMBC, with 11 points.
This years Trophies were presented by Robert Tolson from Demelza House who
also accepted from June Faulkner just under a £1000 raised from this
years event.
Snodland
Festivities Fortnight. On the 8th July 2007 during Snodland Village Festivities
Fortnight the Short Mat Bowls Club played host to a Kent County team. Four
triples from Kent played both Snodland “A” and Snodland “B” in games over 9
ends. The result was Kent Select 16pts – 107 shots, Snodland SMBC 0pts – 47
shots.
Boughton Monchelsea Bowls Club
Boughton
Monchelsea bowls club will be celebrating its twentieth anniversary on the 27th
March 2008 with a fun short mat drive followed by the annual presentation
dinner at the Grangemoor Hotel, Maidstone on the 29th March.
There are still
three founder members playing at the club, Keith Shoebridge, who has been
treasurer since it's formation, his wife Glenda and Grace Brockwell.
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