20/07/2005 by admin.

Anthony O’Neill and Robby Hall provided the much needed cutting edge for the Vics last night, when a starting handicap of 48 shots had to be overcome, in the Wallasey Association Presidents Cup quarter final against Harrison Park. Anthony, with a commanding 21-08 win and Robby with an equally impressive 21-09 victory where the 2 big winners the Vics needed to push on to the semi finals and another clash with Queens Royal. Neil Sherbrooke continued his impressive season with a 21-10 victory on a slowish Hoylake Central green. Robby Franklin 21-11 and Robby Fitzpatrick 21-12 provided good cards when needed in the middle 4 and Matty Gilmore came off with a good 21-13 win. Dave Gilmore had a harder tussle before winning 21-16 and both Eddie Clayburn and Karl Sherbrooke battled through to vital 21-17 victories. The closest game of the night saw Anthony Thompson eventually win 21-20 after a titanic struggle. The Vics went through by 12 shots in the end and the question on everyone’s lips now will be what the Handicap committee will come up with in the semi final after giving the Vics a hard time throughout this competition so far. Skipper Mally Johnson, understandably delighted with this performance from his side, again proved to the club secretary the value of sticking to his selection policies. Mally must not be allowed to give up the captaincy at the end of the season as he is the only person in the club with the skin of a rhino and able to withstand the pressure of difficult selection problems. This was a tremendous victory for the Vics and sets them up to revenge their only defeat of the season so far, when they meet Queens Royal in the semi final.

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20/07/2005 by admin.

The Vics afternoon “A” team progressed to the next round of the Centenary Cup with a narrow 2 shot victory over Birkenhead Park at a lightening quick Cammell Laird green last Thursday. Given the task of pulling back a 40 shot handicap, the Vics had 8 winners from the 10 games to squeeze into the next round. Super silky Robby Franklin 21-04 and majestic Mally Johnson 21-08 were the crucial winners for the Vics in a very tight match scorewise. Bernie Owen and Peter Walker posted good 21-12 winning cards and Andrew Stratton came through a 21-16 winner. Elwyn Williams managed a tight 21-17 victory, with Dick Peake coming through a tough encounter 21-18. Eddie Clayburn was involved in the closest game of the day, finally coming out on top 21-20 after having seen a big lead whittled away. A good performance in the end by the Vics and hopefully our league form can improve on the back of this display.

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20/07/2005 by admin.

The Vics Birkenhead League side suffered another disastrous away defeat last night, this time by 75 shots at Oxton Conservative Club. The Vics had only 2 winners on the night, the mercurial Neil Sherbrooke and the rejuvenated Mally Johnson. Neil had a 21-16 win in another fine display, running out from 09-16 down and Mally in winning 21-18 showed us all that this is another green to his liking. Since his heavy defeat to Higher Tranmere a few weeks back Mally has won all his games and is indeed in inspired form at the moment. Of the rest of the side last night Bob Jones 17-21 and Dick Peake 18-21 performed quite well. Special mention must go to Brian Buck appearing somewhat reluctantly in another away game as a late stand in, Brian bowled well to only go down 17-21 at the end. The Vics desparately need to strenghen this particular side next season as we have too many inconsistent performers at this level to mount any kind of serious challenge to the top 5 clubs.

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