Landers and Richardson win East Yorkshire Doubles title at Westgate
It was chilly and misty with outbreaks of rain for Sunday’s East Yorkshire Doubles at Westgate, but this did not deter 62 bowlers from entering.
Both greens were used initially which meant only 3 on the card for the first two rounds rising to 4 from the quarter-finals, where only Green 2 was used.
On Green 1 Alan Landers & Ian Richardson opened with a 21-11 win against Kenny Wale & Sue Emmerson (Whitby) while Sue Holdsworth & Dave Birch (Hunmanby) had a 21-9 win against Pam Moment & Greg Long (North Cliff). Rita Bland & Keith David (Dukes Park) won 21-10 against home pair Pat & Tony Gallacher to face David Muir & Ashley Brunton-Douglas who cruised through 21-6 against Sue Purcell & Allison Roe (North Cliff).
Bernard Chalk & Mary Kenworthy (both Bridlington Bay) just made it through against the Whitby duo of Jo Leeman & Ian Hadden and Lisa & Pam Watson (both Hunmanby) also had a close game winning 21-19 against Scott Wardman (North Cliff) & Mally Kay.
Andy Adamson (Borough) & Danny Cooper (North Cliff) just got through 21-20 against Dukes Park duo Andy Deighton & Kevin Gates for a game against Steve Dover & Geoff Watson.
On Green 2 Billy Holdsworth & Robert Child also had a close game against Borough’s Jo & Lynn Gates while Geoff Oldham & Jack Richardson (Hunmanby) won 21-15 against Gary Thornton & Tim Purcell (Whitby).
Whitby’s Emmo & Josh Emmerson had a comfortable 21-13 win against Andrew Walker (Brid Bay) & Geoff Price (Dukes Park) to face Mick Wenzel (Westgate) & Brian Dalby (Borough), who won 21-17 against John Cooper (North Cliff) & Ray Leeman.
Barrie Watson & Gareth Gidman (Alverthorpe) eased through 21-18 against Dave Moment & Tony Flynn (North Cliff) for a game against North Cliff’s Adam Chilvers & Callum Malone who won 21-12 against Paul Morgan (North Cliff) & David Knights (Sheffield). Stuart Thompson (Pontefract) & Andy Webb (Alverthorpe) won 21-10 against the youngest pair in the competition Connor & Leela Chilvers.
Winning pairs swapped greens for their second games and on Green 2 Landers & Richardson scraped through 21-20 against Sue Holdsworth & Birch while Muir & Brunton-Douglas had another 21-6 win, this time against Rita Bland & Davis.
Lisa & Pam Watson eliminated Chalk & Kenworthy 21-15 and Adamson & Danny Cooper won 21-12 against Dover & Geoff Watson.
On Green 1 Oldham & Richardson won 21-14 against Billy Holdworth & Child for a game against Emmo & Josh Emmerson who put paid to Wenzel & Dalby 21-13. Chilvers & Malone won 21-15 against Barrie Watson & Gidman while Thompson & Webb played Mo & Tony Chambers (Castleford), who had a first round bye, and won 21-13.
Landers & Richardson won a close first quarter-final against Muir & Brunton-Douglas 21-17 while the Watson duo won an even closer game against Adamson & Cooper 21-20.
Oldham & Richardson beat the Emmersons 21-13 to set up a semi-final against Thompson & Webb who beat Chilvers & Malone 21-16.
Landers & Richardson continued their progress with a 21-14 win against the Watsons and Thompson & Webb won 21-12 against Oldham & Richardson.
The final started evenly with the score being 7-7 after 5 ends. At that point Landers & Richardson won 3 ends by 3, 3 and 2 to lead 15-7 before the West Yorkshire pair pulled 1 back in the 9th end.
Three singles gave Landers & Richardson a lead of 18-8 after 12 ends only for Thompson & Webb to score a 3 for 18-11.
Landers & Richardson settled matters in the next end, the 14th, with another 3 to win 21-18.
On Friday there is an Over-60s singles at Dukes Park while on Sunday Eastfield stage an Open Singles. Entries in advance to the relevant Merit Secretaries.
In Division 2 of the Evening Singles League played on Monday Whitby C hosted Dukes Park C and won 148-101 (6-2).
Dukes Park B only lost one game at home to Hunmanby B winning 165-83 (71) while the match between Borough D and Westgate A ended as a draw on all counts the score being 133-133 (4-4).
Bridlington Bay B had a big 161-121 (6-2) win away to Westgate B and finally North Cliff C just won at home Eastfield B 140-137 (5-3).
In Division 1 Dukes Park A had a 153-139 (4-4) home win against Hunmanby A while Borough A had a 168-97 clean sweep against Whitby B.
Eastfield A, in spite of missing two regular players, had their best result since promotion. but still lost 142-136 (5-3) at home to North Cliff B, Borough B won 148-126 (6-2) at Brid Bay A but Borough C, the other promoted team, suffered a 168-73 clean sweep defeat at North Cliff A.
In the Over-60s Doubles League Division 1 Hunmanby A continued their defence of their title by winning 11-4 (126-96) at Borough while Eastfield’s tough start to their time in Division 1 continued with a 12-2 (122-64) defeat at North Cliff, especially as one game had to be conceded 21-0 due to a player feeling unwell.
Borough A won 11-4 (110-99) at Whitby and Dukes Park A won 9-6 (106-85) away to Bridlington Bay A by virtue of a better aggregate.
In Division 2 Dukes Park B won 10-4 (126-78) at home to Brid Bay B while Dukes Park C lost 11-4 (120-91), also at home, to Westgate B.
Westgate A had a 12-2 home win against Robin Hood’s Bay.
In the Thursday Evening Doubles League Borough A dropped one game at “home” to Borough C but won comfortably 73-29 (3-1) while Eastfield recorded their first win of the season in a very close home match against Hunmanby with both teams winning 2 games but Eastfield taking the aggregate by 55-52.
Whitby were at home to North Cliff A and won 76-63 (3-1) , North Cliff B hosted Dukes Park and won 81-61 (3-1) and finally Borough B won 21-53 (3-1) at Brid Bay.
The table is:
On Saturday the first matches in the Singles League were played.
In Division 1 reigning champions North Cliff A were at home to Whitby and lost 9-4 (199-165) while promoted North Cliff B travelled to play Dukes Park A and were given a big beating, 11-1 (207-126).
In the other matches the other promoted team, Brid Bay A, hosted Borough A and lost 10-3 (182-142) while Borough B were well beaten 11-2 (195-152) at home to Hunmanby A.
The first match in the league was played in Division 2 as Borough C have to play their home matches with a start time of 11am as Borough have three teams in the league but only one green.
They hosted Eastfield, relegated from Division 1 last year and Eastfield won 8-5 (177-165) by virtue of the better aggregate.
Elsewhere the other relegated team, Hunmanby B, hosted Westgate A and suffered a heavy 11-2 (189-158) defeat while Westgate B lost at home to Bridlington Bay B 8-5 (173-173).
More information on the leagues can be found at bowlsnet.uk under East Coast of Yorkshire.