Friendly Game against London Welsh

On Sunday Thicket welcomed London Welsh for a friendly match and it was great to see everyone enjoying the bowls after a long week of concentrating on County Competitions. The weather even managed to stay dry if a little on the cold side. London Welsh bought along their mascot of a Welsh Dragon and this probably helped them to get a good win against the hosts. Afterwards, they all enjoyed tea and homemade cake sat outside and the sun even made an appearance. Just what lawn bowls is all about.

Another Busy Week at the Thicket Club

There were lots of County Competitions across the week and I am afraid I haven't really caught up with all of them and a few of them were cancelled because the good old British Weather intervened.

On Monday 14th June the men had 3 teams in the County Fours and one of them got a good win so on to the next round for them

Nicola Jones is through to the Quarter Finals of the County Singles and Tom  got through to the next round of the unbadged sadly Bob Owens came second.

There were also several lots of men's pairs in action during the week but I haven't got all the results yet.

Ladies Triples were due to play Royal Household on Friday afternoon but the weather intervened and the green was closed.

On Saturday Nicola Jones and Sheila Gwilliam travelled to Caversham for the last 16 of the County Two Wood Nicola won her first round but got knocked out in the quarter finals.  Sheila lost her first round .

Sheila Jenny Bosley and Chris Howard played their postponed triples match on Saturday evening in gloomy conditions at Thicket and Household proved too strong for them.  The other ladies involved in triples are due to play Monday weather permitting.

Last but not least the mixed double fours travelled to Thatcham on another miserable cold Sunday morning and after a very close game just failed to come out on top.

Well done to everyone who took place in County Competitions this week and sorry to any that I have missed

L

More Success for #TEAM THICKET

For those of you that read this blog apologies for late update it has been very busy here at Thicket HQ both with friendly games and County Competitions going on and I've not really caught up. Also a lot to remember

The Ladies had a good win against Trenthams in the TVL on June 3rd lets hope this continues when its for real next year.  On Thursday June 8th they ladies also won by 29 shots in a friendly against Woodley Ladies.  The game against Suttons Gems was cancelled.

On Wednesday  9th it was the County pairs with our in house teams playing against one another. It went the way of Maggie Scrace and Sue Goodchild. Congratulations to both on to Caversham for the  quarter finals.  Commiserations to Jenny and Nicolas it was a great game to watch.

On a very humid Saturday morning Nicola Jones was playing Mary Mackay from Maidenhead Town in the County Singles and this was a thrilling game to watch according to the watching few.  Nicola got the win and goes on to the next round.

Over at Maidenhead Town it was a different story with Sheila Gwilliam and Maggie Scrace playing in a National Over 55's pairs game against Kim Eales and Jan Mayne, they never really got to grips with the green and came second.

The men have also been doing well in their County Comps with Dave Crooks winning his unbadged whilst Gordon Knapper and Melvyn Forward and Alan Leishman and Rodney Hing have progressed as have Kevin Scrace and his playing partner

Finally all three teams of our "Fours" are playing at Home on Monday evening 14th June 

Please come along and support