Guilsfield Community Bowling Club
Friendlies
Friendly matches against local clubs are played throughout the season, at home and away.
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The 2023 Summer Season was marked by at least one win, and rather more losses, but all our games were highly enjoyable.
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The introduction of the ‘Spider’ competition at the start of our home games was a great success, helped to generate some income for our club, and was thoroughly enjoyed by our visitors.
(For those unfamiliar with the 'Spider', here's a short YouTube video.)
Fixtures
Lilleshall
We lost this opening match of the season (20/5) at home to Lilleshall 105-68 but everyone agreed it was a wonderful afternoon's bowling in glorious sunshine. The same can't be said of the return match (5/8) which was a victim of some rather 'variable' weather and had to be cancelled.
St Michael's
More fantastic weather and great bowling but we lost 90-76 to St. Michael's (3/6). Well it was an improvement on the last game and these are Friendlies after all! The away leg scheduled for 15/7 and then had to be rescheduled to 2/9 due to the weather. For some reason I can't remember the score, but the tea was excellent!
Meifod
Our home game against Meifod (12/6) was interrupted by rain but all agreed that we needed the rain! We won the return leg (27/7). Thanks for your hospitality team Meifod - a very enjoyable evening of bowling.
Neuadd Bridge
Quite predictably, we lost to away to Neuadd Bridge (24/6) - they have the perennial advantage of knowing their artificial surface better than their visitors. But we took friendly revenge by beating them at the home leg (19/8). A great afternoon of bowling and a lovely game played in the right spirit.
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Llansantffraid
We hosted Llansantffraid (26/6) but no one seems to be able to recall the score - I suspect that we didn't win! And, typically for this summer of rather dodgy weather, the away leg had to be called off due to rain!
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