Valencian Championships

Today was the first day of the Valencian Championships and we all started with high hopes.  Allen was first up, he was playing rinks with Charlie Marigold, Derrick Cooper & John Withers.

They were playing against the Greenlands team of Graham Bater, Fred Tilley, Mike Regan & Texas Ted Upham.

Unfortunately, the San Luis lads didn't fire on all cylinders and finished up losing by 10-18.  Oh well, better luck in the other events. The other San Luis team of Ian Young, Keith Roberts, Phil Morrachan & Mal Hughes beat the Horadada team of Arthur Brown, Alan Pugh, Chris Collier & Guiseppe Galelli and move on to tomorrow.

At San Miguel, Sheila Cox, Shirley Withers & I played triples against the Emerald Isle trio Ann Holland, Pam Locket & June Jones.  

This was an epic game with the San Luis team starting well to build up a 7-1 lead before the Emerald Isle ladies fought back to go 12-7 up.  Back came the San Luis trio to lead 14-12.  The lead changed again and the Isle led 15-14.  The San Luis ladies then surged ahead to lead 22-14 and holding 3 on the next end.  June slotted the shot in on that end so San Luis still led 22-15 with 2 ends to play.  All they needed was a 2nd bowl on each of the last 2 ends and they were home and dry.  The best laid plans don't always work, Pam moved the jack with her last wood and June bowled 2 more in and despite having 3 woods within 18 inches the San Luis team dropped 3.  Into the last end still with a lead of 4, June again put 3 bowls into the head and I failed to move the 2 San Luis bowls from 18" short to reduce the count and it was all square at full time and on to an extra end.  Sheila held the shot, I added another to hold 2 until June bowled the perfect bowl to win the end and the match.