EnglishRound-up All the latest from the English bowls scene, by Michael McEwan
Leamington Spa: the Bonmarche Women’s National Singles Championship, the National Two-Wood Singles, and the Mother & Daughter Pairs. In the Singles final, 32-year-old Falkner beat her Commonwealth Games gold-medal winning Pairs team-mate from 2010, Amy Gowshall. The match finished 21-14 in Falkner’s favour. The Two-Wood Singles saw her beat Devon’s Muriel Scott - so providing her with, extraordinarily, her first-ever outdoor national title - before she teamed-up with her mother Sue Alexander to win the last-ever staging of the Mother & Daughter Pairs. They beat Dawn and Joyce Hodgson from Maryport. The tournament will be replaced by a Family Pairs competition next year For the aforementioned
Gowshall, defeat by Falkner in the final of the Singles ended her own hopes of a treble. She had earlier won the Sporting Highlights National Pairs Championship alongside her mother, Christine - they beat Hannah Overton and Michelle Barlow from Whittlesey Manor BC in the final - with the duo having earlier joined forces with Tracey Dent and Kirsty Burnett-Cox to win the Dorset Bowls Resort National Fours Championship. A 19-10 victory over Margaret Watts, Veronica Gribble, Rebecca Wigfield and
Sharon Hall from Desborough Town gave them the spoils. Sophie Tolchard, Ruth Rogers and Natalie Melmore from Kings BC won the Bowls England Women’s National Triples Championship. The trio beat Jean Barwise, Sheila Dixon and Liz Garrity from Croft BC in tense finale.
Lincolnshire’s Annalisa Bellamy won the Junior Singles for the second time in three years - beating Northamptonshire’s Rebecca Wigfield in a thrilling final - whilst Worcestershire’s Sophie Inchley and Amy Stanton won the Junior Pairs. They saw off Derbyshire’s Tara Cheetham and Helen Mason to nab the trophy. At the other end of the age spectrum, Liz Garrity of Cumbria beat Oxfordshire’s Carol Gaskins to win the Bowls England Women’s Over-55 Singles, sponsored by Universal Asset Protection, whilst Durham’s Teresa Pearson and Gill Jones won the Universal Asset Protection National 55 & Over Pairs competition - just 12 months after being runners-up in the same event. They beat beat Lydia Munn and Carol Morton from Lenham BC to the title. Finally, the men’s and women’s ‘Champion of Champions’ titles were won by Somerset’s Louis Ridout and Lynne Bowen of Worcestershire respectively.
Triples winners Jamie Walker
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