31/05/2007 by secretary.

The Vics Wallasey Leasgue side continued their relentless charge for a 7th consecutive Title with a home whitewash against a gallant Manor Road “B” side at West Kirby tonight. Skipper Mally Johnson, taking no chances with his team selection, fielded the strongest available side he could and his ruthless placing of his players in their order of play, payed off handsomely with twelve winners out of twelve. Craig Borbenneaux 21-06, Dave Gilmore and Robby Fitzpatrick, both 21-08 and Neil Sherbrooke 21-09 were the single figure winners in the first eight blocks that saw the Vics pile on the agony for Manor Road’s second string team. Karl Sherbrooke and Anthony Thompson showed no mercy in compiling comfortable 21-10 victories and Billy Atkinson 21-12 and Brian Leonard 21-13 just kept the wins piling up. There were tighter games for Steve Nugent 21-15, Jamie Fitzpatrick 21-16 and John Lloyd 21-17 before “Rampant” Robby Franklin risked a season of barbed comments, by beating our reporter 21-14 in a game that was, as usual between these two good friends, full of fine comments and quips and also some good bowls from both players. It is always a pleasure to be in the same side as Robby but not such a pleasure to be in opposition but never mind I do have charge of the keyboard !!!! The overall margin of victory for the Vics was a massive 114 shots and Mally Johnson does seem to be coming round to the idea that our new scoring system is not so bad after all, as Manor Road “B” took 3 winners away from Queens Royal “A” a fortnight ago.

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31/05/2007 by secretary.

The Vics afternoon “A” team, despite having only 3 winners on the day, lost a tight match at Division One leaders Harrison Park by 18 shots yesterday. On a green resembling a football goalmouth after a hard season’s matches, sand, mud, no grass and numerous bumps and hollows, the Vics had started brightly, with “Rampant” Robby Franklin again proving a master of all surfaces with a fine if not easy 21-17 victory. The next 6 blocks however were losing ones for the Vics despite good performances from Mally Johnson 18-21, Eddie Clayburn 18-21 and Peter Dodd 20-21 after being 08-16 down at one stage. Kenny Palin proved that he knew this green as well as anyone with a good 21-16 win and Bernie Owen, going for a meal after the match this time instead of directly before it, provided an excellent if surprising 21-12 victory over Brian Pinder. Was it just a coincidence or did he seem lighter on his feet than normal yesterday? Skipper Billy Atkinson was also involved in a fine game before just losing out 18-21 but with only 3 winners the Vics did well to keep the score down to just an 18 shot deficit at the end of the match. The Vics really need to push hard against Pensby home and away in the next 2 matches if they are to stay in contention at the right end of the table.

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31/05/2007 by secretary.

The Vics afternoon “B” team suffered a rare home defeat yesterday when League leaders Upton Victory Hall “B” triumphed by 11 shots on a heavy Vics green. After last weeks 43 shot away defeat Skipper Derek Thomas was hoping to reverse the result and collect the aggregate point. His hopes were quickly shattered however when 5 defeats from the first 6 blocks left the Vics floundering. Dave Bosworth had started the afternoon off well for the Vics with a fine 21-16 win but that was it until Ian Cameron 21-20 and Brian Ibbotson 21-19 posted the next 2 winning cards for the Vics at numbers 7 and 8 respectively. With the last 2 on the green both Keith Etches and Derek Thomas needed to concede less than 18 points between them to see the Vics home to victory, never mind the aggregate point. Derek managed a good 21-17 win against an opponent unbeaten before yesterday and Keith came from 09-16 down to force a battling 21-20 victory but despite these efforts the Vics fell short of winning by 11 shots. This was a disappointing result for the Vics but Dave Leonard 18-21, Don Ibbotson 19-21 and Ernie Peers 20-21 were all involved in close defeats that with a touch more luck might have gone the other way but after this home defeat the Vics need to make hay at bottom club Greasby next week to make up ground in the League.

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