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Pulsating Night’s Bowls Sees Harold Jones Cup Final Go To A Replay

The top two Wallasey Association Teams at the moment, West Kirby Victoria and Queens Royal, served up a treat for a big crowd at Manor Road tonight, when the Harold Jones Cup Final finished with both sides on 218 after a terrific match played in an excellent sporting spirit by both sides. On the superb Manor Road green Anthony Thompson 21-16 and Dave Gilmore 21-20 put West Kirby into an early lead but this was pulled back by Mark Lynch winning 21-15 for Queens Royal. Steve Nugent came off with a 21-15 winning scorecard for West Kirby to leave the scores level at 78 each after 4 blocks (Queens Royal receiving a 6 shot start from the handicappers). Queens Royal then stormed into a 27 shot lead after having 3 winning cards in the middle four with Craig Saville and Eddie Dutton giving superb displays with 21-10 and 21-06 wins respectively. Karl Sherbrooke pulled 1 shot back for West Kirby with a narrow 21-20 win but this was undone when Geoff Lynch came off with a 21-19 win for Royal after finishing with 3 two’s from 15-19 down. The score after 8 blocks being 161-134 in favour of Queens Royal meant that West Kirby needed a big winner in the back four and once again it was Matt Gilmore who came up trumps with a quick fire 21-07 success followed by the Fitzpatrick brothers, Jamie and Robby, both winning 21-16 to leave West Kirby in the driving seat with Robby Hall leading 17-05 in his match with Frank O’Neill but Frank staged a terrific comeback to eventually only lose out 18-21 and leave the final scores 218-218 after some wonderful bowling that was a credit to both sides. The likely replay date is Saturday August 4th but this will be confirmed as soon as arrangements have been made.

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