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The Club welcomed a group of 30 Girl Guides from the Long Lawford and Newbold units to give the sport of bowls a try. The majority of the group were Brownies (7-10 years old) with some Guides (10-14 years old) after a short session with volunteers from the club showing them the basics of bowling they split into groups to take on three out of six challenges.
The challenges ranged from two forms of target bowls, bowling to a get the wood into a specific area, controlling weight to knock the bails off a cricket type stumps, getting close to a set point and delivering the jack and then bowling a wood to it. The evening was filled with laughter as the girls had an enjoyable time and when asked said that they would come again if the session was ran again. Rugby Thornfield Indoor Bowls Club played host to a charity match featuring eight teams, four representing Myton Hospice and four Warwickshire & Northamptonshire Air Ambulance. Each team played four games of seven ends, one against each of the teams playing for the opposite charity. Three points were given for a win, one for a draw with a bonus point for each end won.
After the first round of games WNAA had won three and drawn the other giving them an overall 26-13 lead. With the first half of the match completed Myton took one win but WNAA again had won three, the overall advantage now eleven. The teams representing Myton Hospice could again only manage one win to WNAA’s three, the scores 68-51. After the final round of games Myton could only manage another win but just missed out on a second. Myton Hospice finished with 64 points but the overall winners were Warwickshire & Northamptonshire Air Ambulance with 95 points, if the match had gone purely on shots the result would’ve been 136-77 to WNAA. With three wins out of four Carol Ryan, Keith Oakes, Stuart Miles and Ian Box were the highest scoring rink for Myton Hospices, making them the Myton Champions. The Air Ambulance Champions with four wins out of four went to Colin Knapp, Pat & Mandy Dahlgren and Chris Knapp. Special thanks go to Rugby School, Hafele, Jumbo Games and Next for providing prizes for the raffle. A big thank you to all the players and Rugby Thornfield for ensuring the game went ahead. A total of £385 (rounded up to nearest £5) was raised, which means each charity will receive £192.50 towards their excellent work. The club is proud to be hosting the finals of the Denny and Yetton over the weekend of 21st/22nd April.
Food will be available from our in house caterers. Players and supporters are reminded that food purchased from outside of the club may not be eaten on club premises. Rugby Thornfield Indoor Bowl Club again hosted the 2018 Warwickshire Region EBYDS Event. The EBYDS (English Bowling Youth Development Scheme) splits entrants into two categories, juniors (14 or under) and seniors (18 or under). Each category is further split into groups of four for a round robin series of three wood singles. A player earns 10 points for a win and 5 points for a draw, shot difference is calculated in case of ties when it comes to final points. After the singles each player takes part in four different skill challenges, jack casting, line drawing, weighted shot and beating shot wood. The final points are totalled and players sorted in order.
For the Senior section there were two groups of four players. In Group “A” were Toby King, Alex Warrington, Tom Wheeler and Jack Cooper. With the exception of Toby King all players won two games and lost one so Jack Cooper, Tom Wheeler and Alex Warrington all had 20 points with Toby King scoring 0 points. Group “B” consisted of Alexia Agrafioti, Paul Warrington, Katherine Bowman and Jordan Ward. Jordan Ward won all of his games, so scored 30 points, Katherine Bowman won two getting 20 points, Paul Warrington won one to get 10 points while Alexia Agrafioti scored 0 points. Alexia Agrafioti finished off a poor day gaining an additional 17 points in the skills section, Jack Cooper gained 42 points, Paul Warrington 47 and Jordan Ward 48. Both Alex Warrington and Tom Wheeler took 50 points, Katherine Bowman 52 and Toby King, who failed to gain any points in the singles, scored an impressive 58 points. Jordan Ward finished top in the Senior Section with 78 points, 6 points ahead of Katherine Bowman, Tom Wheeler and Alex Warrington both finished with 70 points but Tom took third place with a +5 shot difference compared to +2. 62 points secured Jack Cooper fifth, Toby King sixth purely on his 58 skill points, seventh place was Paul Warrington with 57 points and Alexia Agrafioti’s 17 points saw her finish eighth. In the Junior Section there were due to be three groups of four and one group of three but one player had to withdraw due to illness leaving two groups with just three players, these groups played only two game but were awarded an extra 5 points for the missing game. In Group “C” Rhiana Russell won both of her games, Isabelle Pymm won one and lost one while Ailish Sheehan lost both. However because of being a player down all players were awarded and extra 5 points, giving Rhiana 25, Isabelle 15 and Ailish 5. Group “D” was the other group with three players so all players gained an additional 5 points, Alfie Knight won both games to gain 25 points, Grace Wade won one to gain 15 points while Edward Higham lost both games to finish with 5 points. Ellie Marie Hamblett won all three games in Group “E” to get 30 points, Alice Atkin won two gaining 20 points, Molly Fowler managed one victory to get 10 points with Tyler King getting 0 points. Group “F” was won by Jacob Mills (30 points) with Kieran Chambers second (20 points), Maxwell Magee 10 points and Joshua Toon 0 points. After the Junior skills challenges were completed the final standing, with skills score in brackets, were: Alfie Knight 85 (60), Jacob Mills 76 (46), Alice Atkin 73 (53), Kieran Chambers 71 (51), Ellie Marie Hamblett 70 (40), Rhiana Russell 67 (42), Isabelle Pymm 60 (45) shot difference +0, Grace Wade 60 (45) shot difference -12, Maxwell Magee 46 (36), Molly Fowler 41 (31), Ailish Sheehan 40 (35), Joshua Toon 38 (38), Edward Higham 23 (18) and Tyler King 16 (16). Jordan Ward and Alfie Knight will progress to the Midlands Regional at Melton & District Indoor Bowls Club in April. After hosting the Warwickshire Women's Indoor BA in the first of their matches celebrating their 25th anniversary, playing against the clubs of Warwickshire, the WWIBA has passed on their thanks to the club for all the hard work they put in and for the lovely post match meal provided by club caterers The Family Kitchen.
The WWIBA host Hertfordshire, also at Thornfield, on Wednesday 25th October starting at 2:30pm Thornfield has a proud history of supporting charities, recently we hosted a barn dance supporting Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance. Here is the report by event organiser (and Thornfield member) Mandy Dahlgren who was rescued by the air ambulance in 2011.
I am very proud to announce that this night was a great success and we raised a great amount of £506.05. This was my first barn dance having had 4 or 5 disco/party nights and was very pleased that nearly everyone who attended came up and asked me if I would hold another one as they had enjoyed it so much so watch this space. Ian Whitehead our professional caller did a great job encouraging everyone to get up and dance and talked us through all the moves and some fun was had by all. We would also like to thank Thornfield for the room and to Planet Ice Skydome Coventry for donating a voucher for a family of 4 for ice skating and boot hire which helped build hte amount raised in our mini auction It is an honor helping to raise money for this great charity, giving something back and helping the helicopter stay in the skies saving lives.................. There will be another barn dance in aid of the air ambulance on Saturday 12th November, contact Mandy Dahlgren on 07727 839419 or [email protected] |
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