Weekly Round Up of First Team Matches

June 5th

The latest league game saw our local rivals Lee on Solent visit the hallowed turf of Rowner, this is always a fixture we look out for each year and the same could be said for this one. Rowner had a mixed start to the game with the 2 rinks of Matt Sweetenham and Chris Hay bursting out the gates whilst Graeme Coles and Stand in skip for the evening Josh Berry, starting off a bit slow. However by the middle of the game it had turned on its head for Graeme Coles' rink as after being 7-1 down after 5 ends, they were now 14-7 up after 11 ends. It was nip tuck on the Josh Berry and Chris Hay rinks throughout the evening and Matt Sweetenhams rink were confidently in charge for the majority of the game.

However, as Rowner dont like to make it easy for ourselves, it was all a bit too tight for some, and Matt rink lost a 5 on the 17th end which meant the Lee on Solent rink were now 16-15 up with one end to play, fortunately though, the other 3 rinks had maintained a good game and Graeme and Josh won, with Chris ending as a draw.

Final rink scores were:

M Sweetenham  15-17 G Payne

J Berry 13-11 J Hadfield

C Hay 16-16 M Ellis

G Coles 24-8 P Gentry

overall score of 68-52 in favour of Rowner, with a Points total of 13-3, taking Rowner up to Fourth in the league after 6 games.

May 29th

The 5th game of the season saw us hosting the men of Waverley, this game is probably one of the loudest of the season and it certainly maintained the competitiveness again this time round. It started off fairly even for the first half of the match, but for some reason, Rowners recent resiliance waned and the strength of the Waverley team shone through, it was unfortunately an overall defeat on all rinks for Rowner with a total score being 54-92 to Waverley and a 16-0 points score going to the visitors.

scores:

G Coles 14-25 D Smith

C Hay 18-20 J Biggs

P Pinder 11 - 23 L McCubbin

M Sweetenham 11-24 G Starks

May 22nd

the 4th league game of the season saw us travel to Alexandra park, notorious for many setbacks for Rowner over the years. The green may have looked iffy, but I have been advised by those who were there, that it didn't play that badly. however it looked as if it took our guys a few ends to really find the pace and the lines as it looked a bit daunting after several ends. However, the boys kicked in and turned the game on its head and ended up with a winning result of 12-4, (70 shots to 62), winning on two rinks and losing on 2 

rink scores were:

B Stafford 18-22 D Lilley

C Hay 10-12 B Riste

M Sweetenham 19-16 N Scutt

P Pinder 22-11 P Lawrence

May 15th

Friday saw us play our third game of the season against local rivals Fareham seeing the return of a handful of former Rowner bowlers. The weather tried to play a part a few hours before with a deluge of rain but the green is in fine mettle and was cleared to play. The game was a very tight affair and the Rowner boys pulled trough right at the end to win the game by 2 shots overall 65-63, with 2 winning rinks and 2 losing rinks. The scores were:

P Pinder 18 - 20 C Bailey

C Hay 15-13 D Bishop

G Coles 12-23 W Ross

M Sweetenham 20-7 C Friend

May 8th:

Our second game of the season had us make an away trip to Leigh Park, there was some trepidation after the combination team had visited on the Wednesday night before and the report of the green was not great. But, when we got there the sight that met us was a bit better than expected, and a freshly cut green awaited us.

This obviously inspired the team, as we manged to come away with all rinks winning and a 16-0 result in our favour. 

Scores for the evening were as follows:

G Coles 22 - 3 M Street

B Stafford 15 - 14 E Theobold

P Pinder 19 - 9 J Ward

M Sweetenham 19 - 15 B Cope

May 1st - Rowner vs Vospers

Well, the first league game of the season came round and all optimism was on show for the first team. Unfortunately, good fortune was not shining on us as we lost the game by 85 shots to 62, with only one rink winning, the score were as follows:

G Coles 12-19 S Sunderland

M Sweetenham 24 -19 D Boswell

P Pinder 16-19 R Politsz

M Butler 10-28 T Smith