Billy Holdsworth edges past Paul Morgan in cracking Miller Cup Singles final
Borough BC’s Miller Cup Over-60s Singles, sponsored by club members Tony & Rita Bland, started out in a near-Wagnerian fashion on Friday with the remnants of a thunderstorm still rumbling and raining at the scheduled start time of 9.30am which was slightly delayed for safety reasons.
Shaughan Temple (Borough) won 21-12 against Ros Bland (Sheffield) and Graham Bland (Sheffield) won, also 21-12, against Ian Richardson (North Cliff).
Chris Dobson (Dukes Park) beat Tommy Roberts (Whitby) 21-16 while home bowler Brian Dalby crushed Malcolm Dobson (Hunmanby) 21-6. Phil Todd (Hunmanby) won well, 21-13, against the in-form Jo Leeman (Whitby) to face Borough’s Ronnie Noble who won 21-17 against Tony Allen (Hunmanby).
Tim Purcell defeated his wife Sue Purcell 21-10, this was also the score when Harry Old (Hunmanby) eliminated Ashley Brunton-Douglas (Eastfield).
Dave Moment (North Cliff) also won 21-10 against Ian Winning (Bridlington Bay) for a game against Caroline Watson who won an all-Borough game against Pauline Allison 21-14.
Cliff’s Tim Coyne, a recent Over-60, had a big 21-8 win over David Wright (Brid Bay) to set up a game against Les Ramm (Borough) who won 21-9 against Joyce Harland (Whitby).
Paul Morgan (North Cliff) also won by a good margin,21-11, against clubmate Mally Kay for a game against another Cliffer, Nigel Trotter, who was pressed by Sue Holdsworth (Hunmanby) before winning 21-18.
Cliff’s Alan Landers beat Geoff Watson (Whitby) 21-17 and Geoff Oldham (Hunmanby) winning 21-13 against Colin Roda (Borough).
In the second round Temple had a fine 21-11 win against Borough clubmate Dave Pryce while Jack Richardson (Hunmanby) won 21-17 against Steve Dover (Whitby).
Robert Child (North Cliff) had a comfortable 21-10 win, against Borough’s Bob Wood and Jennie Allen (Hunmanby) beat another homester, Barrie Watson, 21-17.
Graham Bland went through 21-14 against Ray Leeman (Whitby) to face Ed McCormack (North Cliff) who but Tony Bland (Borough) out 21-15.
Billy Holdsworth (Hunmanby) won 21-11 against Larry Dixon (Westgate) and Sue Wilkinson (Borough) beat David Muir (Eastfield) 21-9.
Home bowler Steve Price had an easy 21-10 win against Pam Moment (North Cliff) to face clubmate Dalby, who had a fine 21-19 win against Dobson.
Todd destroyed Noble 21-6 for a game against clubmate Old who won 21-16 against Tim Purcell.
Dave Moment had a big, 21-7, win against Caroline Watson to set up an all-Cliff clash against Coyne who edged through 21-20 against Ramm.
Morgan won 21-13 against Trotter and Landers beat Oldham 21-9.
Richardson ended Temple’s run with a 21-9 win while Jennie Allen went through 21-19 against Child.
McCormack had a comfortable 21-14 win over Graham Bland to face Billy Holdsworth who won 21-15 against Wilkinson.
Dalby put clubmate Price out 21-15 and Todd won the all-Hunmanby game against Old 21-16.
Coyne just made it through 21-19 against Moment and in another meeting of clubmates Morgan edged Landers out 21-20.
Allen had a good 21-15 win over clubmate Richardson to progress to a semi-final against Holdsworth who demolished McCormack 21-7.
Dalby’s fine run continued with a 21-19 win against Todd to face Morgan who eliminated another clubmate, Coyne, 21-11.
Holdsworth proved too strong an opponent for his Hunmanby clubmate Allen winning 21-1 while Dalby’s good run ended with a 21-12 defeat by Morgan.
The final swung both ways with Holdsworth taking an early 9-4 lead after 5 ends only for Morgan to take the next 5 ends for a lead of 12-9.
After 21 ends the scores were locked at 17-17.
Morgan then scored a 2 only for Holdsworth to score two 2s to win 21-19.
The prizes were presented by Borough President Shaughan Temple.
On Monday in Division 2 of the Evening Singles League Dukes Park B had a big 153-82 (7-1) win at home to Whitby C while Dukes Park C, also at home, lost 157-112 (5-3) against Bridlington Bay B.
Hunmanby B lost 149-124 (6-3) at home to Westgate B, Westgate A won 160-107 (6-1) at home to North Cliff C and Borough D had a 141-117 (4-4) win over Robin Hood’s Bay.
In Division 1 on Tuesday Borough A won all the games in a 168-106 defeat of Dukes Park A and Hunmanby A won 153-136 (4-4) at home to Borough B.
Whitby B were at home to Bridlington Bay A and won 153-126 (6-2) while North Cliff A had a predictable 164-116 (7-1) “away” win against North Cliff B.
Eastfield A’s tough season continued with a 148-86 (6-2) home defeat by Whitby A.