Well it seems a long time ago since we put a newsletter together, even longer when we see how busy our bowlers have been!

The results for all the teams are listed below,

Well done everyone, great team effort.

Tolworth Red boys

V Raynes Park Won 16-4 at home lost 11-9 away

V Airport Won 12-8 at home won 18-2 away

V Watford Won 13-7 at home won 14-6 away

Tolworth Blue boys

V Raynes Park Lost 18-2 at home and away

V Bracknell Lost 11-9 at home won 12-8 away

Tolworth Blue girls

V Raynes Park Won 13-½ -3 ½ away

V Raynes Park Won 12-5 at home

V Bracknell Lost 10-7 at home and 14-3 away

Congratulations and Good luck to Tolworth Red boys Team, Chris Best, Chris Luscombe, Mike Cobb, Martin Ashton, Darren Steward, Lee Streeter, Daniel Penn and John Wells. They have won their division and are through to the nationwide finals, which are being held at Tamworth. This is the first time Tolworth have had a team in the final. Our new experience will happen on Sunday 9^th June.

Several of our junior’s take part in the Southern Bowlers Club held at Enfield Bowl. Round One was played over the weekend of 9^th and 10^th February.

Daniel Edwards went through each cut and finished third, being knocked out in the stepladder.

Round 2 took place over the weekend of 13^th and 14^th April. Another successful tournament for some of the Tolworth Junior boys as Darren Steward was 9^th. Chris went into the stepladder final having just bowled his last two games of 208 and 233 regaining his first place, which took him into the stepladder final. He played Garry Sykes who bowled a 232 and Chris just lost to him bowling a 201, very unlucky Chris but a very good tournament average of 198.9. Well done.

Round three, the final one for this season takes place over the weekend of 29^th and 30^th June. Good Luck

This is the time for the Young Ones league teams to be sorted out for next season, so if you are going to change teams get yourself organised now!

June 2002

South of England Open

The results of the South of England Open held at Enfield in late January were very good

Scott Brind 1^st place Bantam Boys Handicapped Singles

Chris Hignett 2^nd place Junior Boys Scratch Singles

Lee Streeter 1^st place Intermediate Boys Scratch singles

Chris Taylor and Sam Mitchell 3^rd place Pee Wee Boys Handicapped Doubles

James Hignett and Joshua Buller 2^nd place Bantam Boys Scratch Doubles

Leigh Collins 2^nd place Intermediate Girls Handicapped All Events

Scott Brind 3^rd place Bantam Boys Handicapped All Events

Sophie Baccolini 3^rd place Junior Girls All Events Scratch

Joshua Buller 3^rd place Bantam Boys All Events Scratch

Chris Hignett 2^nd place Junior Boys All Events Scratch

Lee Streeter 2^nd place Intermediate Boys All Events Scratch

Well done everyone especially those who won more than one trophy. Don’t forget to keep trying.

In this competition a boy bowls with a girl, hence the name, if you look at the overall Tolworth results the girls bowled above average and several personal best results were achieved. Well done!

In Division 1 Sarah Taylor and Chris Hignett finished 5^th.

In Division 1 Martin Ashton won high game with a 247.

Dates for your diary

Sunday 30^th June - Inter-league Competition. If you could help with running the Tombola stall etc please speak to Tracey Goodman.

Saturday 6^th July 2002 - Young Ones League ends.

Bee Gee League finishes on Saturday 13^th July followed by the end of season presentation with buffet.

Young Ones and Junior Classic League Presentation evening is to be held on Friday 26^th July 2002 at Tolworth Bowl. Cold Buffet and Disco.

Well done on your achievement Rebecca Steward and Chris Hignett. They had been selected by the NAYBC, to participate in the JETS programme currently running.

Surrey Area Championships

This event was a first for some bowlers, but the Mid City Lanes at PURLEY are a favourite with some of our juniors

There were some very impressive scores being recorded and when you look at the overall sheet for the All Events with handicap you will see 3 of our juniors amongst the adults in the top 12. Lying in 1^st place was Martin Ashton with 2025; in 10^th was John Wells with 1901 and 12^th was Dan Penn with 1895. These three boys also made it through to the first round of the Surrey Area Masters Event, losing to people such as

Jo Harries, Barry Eason and Peter Cornwell.

It was great to see our League Secretaries, Coaches/Instructors and YBC Secretary taking part, they were not going to be out done. Shona Louvel bowling with Tricia (mum/instructor) bowled a 524 series in the doubles and finished 2^nd.

Angela Steward finished 3^rd in the lady’s singles

In the junior singles boys Darren Steward finished 2^nd and 9 pins down Peter Naylor finish 4^th.

Junior singles girls Sophie Baccolini finished 2^nd bowling a 600 series with h/cap, Sarah Taylor finished 3^rd 586 series with h/cap.

Junior Girls double team of Rebecca Steward & Sophie Baccolini finished 4^th bowling in the boys division.

2 Junior Doubles teams finished in the top three. A real fight for places in the regular team event with No Fear (Mike Cobb, Dan Penn, Daz Steward, John Wells and Chris Luscombe) competing not only against Cracker Surprise (Martin Ashton, Dan Edwards, Ian Cracknell, Josh Buller and Lee Streeter) but the adult teams too.

Cracker Surprise took the first game by 7 pins, No Fear took the next by 15, 8 the difference going into the last game – No Fear took the last by 39 taking the overall by just 26 including the handicaps. They finished 5^th and 6^th respectfully. Bob Steward’s team finished 2^nd we said our officials gave us a run for our money!

Junior All Events winner was Martin Ashton and 2^nd was John Wells. Martin bowled his highest series of 697. Tolworth was well represented and proud of them we should all be. You are setting yourselves high standards juniors, keep making these high achievements.

NAYBC Nationals at Nottingham last weekend WOW we won some medals

Lets start with the youngest

Gold medals for Pee Wee – Tolworth Titans

Breaking last years record the team bowled a 2160 series

James Hignett 441; Scott Brind 459; Lauren Penn 305; James Hunt 417 and Josh Buller 538; his highest game ever of 210, excellent team performances.

Silver medals for Boys team, first time ever - Tolworth Tigers bowled a series of 2861 John Wells, Daniel Edwards, Darren Steward, Chris Best and Chris Luscombe bowling his highest series of 685.

Missing out by only 2 pins on gold medals, John Wells and Lee Streeter took 2^nd place in the Intermediate Boys Doubles with a score of 1164.

James Hignett and Josh Buller took 3^rd place in the Bantam Boys Doubles with a 872 series.

On the All Events Josh Buller took a silver medal for Bantam Boys with a 1356 series giving an average of 150.

Andrew Peek took a bronze medal in the Junior Boys All Events with a 1483 series and an average of 164.7.

Just missing out this year on medals but putting in some good performances were: -

Junior Doubles Girls Sarah Taylor and Sophie Baccolini with a 939, a great achievement finishing 5^th.

Junior Doubles Boys Luke Hunt and Chris Hignett finished 4^th with a 969 series missing third by just 7 pins.

Junior Girls All Events 5^th place was Sophie Baccolini

with 1404 and an average of 156.

On the All Events Intermediate Boys John Wells finished 4^th with 1693 and an average of 188.

In the Senior All Event Boys Chris Luscombe finished 4^th with a series of 1805 and an average of 200.

Thank you all, for the support you gave the junior bowlers last weekend at the Nationals

JUNIOR CAPTAIN

Alex Smith, Chris Best and Chris Manders stood for election of Captain. I am sure you already knew that Alex Smith won with the most votes. This is a fitting way for Alex to finish his last year as a YBC member.