Welsh Crown Green Bowling Association
2011 Season
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- WCGBA AGM 2011
Below is the Welsh Competition Calendar for 2011, which includes all the WCGBA events as put together by Ian Hughes and adapted by me. This will enable the calendar to be updated and added to throughout the bowling season.
Last update 16th May 2011
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December
- Warick and Worcester Semi-Final Result
- North Shropshire Scores
- Team and Draw
Dudley and District Result and Report.
Wales lost their second game to North Derbyshire by 17 points scores are below.
- North Derbyshire Result
- Wales v North Derbyshire Teams
- Wales v North Lancs & Fylde Result
- Wales v North Lancs & Fylde Teams
Senior Mens Team News 2011
- Wales Individual Averages season 2011
Merseyside won this years Endsleigh Senior Supplementary County Championship follow link below for the scores:
Endsleigh Senior Supplementary County Championship Squad.
- North Derbyshire Result
- Wales v Shropshire Team and Draw
- Cumbria Away Report
The 2011 match dates are in the Calendar on the front page.
- Welsh Team Managers 2010 Report
County Championship 5-year Calendar 2010 to 2014County Associations shown in the order of draw.
2010
Endsleigh Senior County SectionsSection One: North Lancs. Fylde, Cheshire, Warwick & Worcester, Cumbria
Section Two: Lancashire, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Potteries & District
Section Three: South Yorkshire, Derbyshire,Wales,North Midlands
Section Four: Greater Manchester, Yorkshire, Merseyside.
2011
Endsleigh Senior County SectionsSection One: North Lancs & Fylde, Lancashire, South Yorkshire, Greater Manchester
Section Two: Cheshire, Staffordshire, North Midlands, Yorkshire
Section Three: Warwick & Worcester, Potteries & District, Derbyshire, Merseyside
Section Four: Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales.
2012
Endsleigh Senior County SectionsSection One: North Lancs Fylde, Shropshire, Derbyshire, Yorkshire
Section Two: Cheshire, Potteries & District, Wales, Greater Manchester
Section Three: Cumbria, Lancashire, North Midlands, Merseyside
Section Four: Warwick & Worcester, Staffordshire, South Yorkshire.
2013
Endsleigh Senior County SectionsSection One: North Lancs, Fylde, Staffordshire, Wales, Merseyside
Section Two: Warwick & Worcester, Shropshire, North Midlands, Greater Manchester
Section Three: Cumbria, Potteries & District, South Yorkshire, Yorkshire
Section Four: Cheshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire.
2014
Endsleigh Senior County SectionsSection One: Cheshire, Shropshire, South Yorkshire, Merseyside
Section Two: Warwick & Worcester, Lancashire, Wales, Yorkshire
Section Three: Cumbria, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Greater Manchester
Section Four: North Lancs & Fylde, Potteries & District, North Midlands.
Junior News 2011
- Click here for Roy Armson Trophy Report
- Wales v Yorkshire Teams and Draw
Jake Stanley (Beuamaris) has won the boys Junior Welsh Merit at Coed Talon beating Adam Penlington (Bailey Hill) 21 - 18 in the final after being 16- 5 down, loosing semi finalists were Christian Reid and Dion Owen.
The under 18 girls Junior Welsh Merit was won by Ashleigh Craven who beat Emma Gowan 21 - 19 in the final, Ashleigh will go on to represent Wales in the B.C.G.B.A Ladies Junior Merit In September.
- Wales v Potteries Teams and Draw
- Wales v Staffordshire Results
W.P.A. 2011
Below: Geraint Jones, Graham Rogers and Jim Paton.
Below: Craig Richardson, D.T.Evans and Graham Rogers.
Below: Geraint Jones, Jim Paton and Steve Curbishley.
Follow the link below for more photographs.
Click this link for more pictures.
WPA Programme produced by Nick Hughes.
The dates for the 2011 W.P.A are now confirmed as:
10th April
22nd May
12th June
and 24th July
venues are TBA.
The final will be 28th August in The Flintshire Area.(Coed-Talon
Mike Riley 2011 All England Winner
Review of the Welsh Crown Green Bowling Season 2011. Compiled by Mal Parry. 1/ The biggest achievement of the season is probably the easiest to put at number one for many a year in Welsh Crown Green Bowling achievements - Mike Riley (Bailey Hill) winning the B.C.G.B.A. (the All England) Senior Merit Cup at Meole Brace, Shrewsbury. 2/ Running a close second however, must again go to an individual effort, when Merwyn Williams (Gresford Colliery) won the J. & J. Isherwood Veterans Competition which is the equivalent of the All England at Veterans level. He is therefore a qualifier for the Champion of Champions, which as usual will be held at the Waterloo in Blackpool. 3/ The Welsh Ladies got to the Semi-Final of The Ladies British Championship. 4/The Welsh Junior team reached the final of the Drakes Pride Supplementary Competition, but lost to South Yorkshire. 5/ Jane Bowler won the Ladies Welsh Merit , beating 2010 winner Linda Williams in the final. 6/ Jake Stanley (Beaumaris) won the Junior Welsh merit beating Adam Penlington in the final. He did it the hard way by coming back from 5-16 down to win. 7/ Ashleigh Craven won the under 18 girls' Welsh Merit title beating Emily Gowan in the final. 8/Nicky Jones (Conway) won the Senior Welsh Merit beating Mike Riley 21 - 11 in the final, and also won the prestigious George Davies Cup at The Colwyn Bay Bowls festival. 9/Ken Parry (Flintshire) won the Welsh Veterans' Merit which was played on the Aston Bowling green. 10/ Graham Rogers (Cunliffe Arms Bowling Club) won the W.P.A. knockout competition at Coed-Talon beating Craig Richardson (Min-y-Don in the final). With Steve Curbishley winning the ranking competition, this is the first success the Wrexham area has had in this competition. 11/ Steve Curbishley (Cunliffe Arms Bowling Club) picked up the Main Meole Brace competition which is also a Champion of Champions qualifier. 12/ Gresford Colliery of Wrexham, Bailey Hill of Flintshire, Colwyn Bay R.B.L. of Glyndwr and Conway from Gwynedd, by winning their respective area County Cups, play for the Welsh Championship at Allinson Road, Rhos on Sea on the 24th of September, with Bailey Hill winning. 12a/ Conway B.C. won the prestigious Welsh Counties League, and therefore broke the sequence of the last twelve years when a team from the Wrexham area has won it. 14/Ben Riley has won the Roy Armson Junior Trophy at Sale Excelsior W.M.C. He follows his brother Jordan, who has also won this competition. 15/Welsh Senior team manager Geraint Jones resigned after 8 years at the helm. During this time although he has had his critics, the huge majority of people will agree Welsh Bowls at Senior County level is much the better now than when he started in the role, Wales also won The Supplementary for the first time in 2010. 16/Wales have an unprecedented four qualifiers for the Champion of Champions at the Waterloo in Blackpool.
16/Although Mike is obviously the Man of the Moment for 2011, John Bailey is still the number 1 Welsh player as is endorsed in the national ranking where he comes in at No. 19, with Mike Riley No. 46 Gerwyn Davies No. 47, Nick Hughes No. 56, and Jason Jones No. 111, no surprise at No 1 Gary Ellis and No. 2 Graeme (G.I.) Wilson, of which was even more re-enforced by Ellis beating Wilson in The Champion of Champions at Blackpool's Waterloo Hotel. . Craig Richardson has retained The Don Morgan Trophy click here for a report of the day.
The Welsh Club Championship was contested by: Colwyn Bay R.B.L. (Glyndwr) Gresford Colliery (Wrexham) Conway (Gwynedd) and Bailey Hill (Flintshire) and was played at Rhos on Sea Allinson Road, within the Glyndwr Area on Sunday 25th September, with the winners being Bailey Hill who beat Conway 149 - 125 in the final. Click on the link below to see Threeways Garage Abergele. They have been sponsoring the Threeways Inter County matches for a number of years now. Their competition this year was played on the 1st May and was won by the Gwynedd Area.
Incidentally all 16 Veterans qualifying for the Veterans final on 27th July will receive a commemorative shirt bearing the logo of Co-operative Funeralcare and inscribed 'Welsh Veterans Merit Final 2011'.
This Law Enforcement Seminar was held in late March 2011 at Winnington Park in Cheshire. Thirteen Welsh referees attended and were updated with some recent changes. Above part of the Welsh contingent of referees.
Delegates to the Seminar from other parts of the country.
Referees are good listeners. Below is Mrs Brenda Jones passing over the Chain of Office to the President for 2011 Mr Gordon Telford of the Gwynedd District. Gordon has a long history in the administration of Crown Green Bowls in N.Wales. In his proposal speech Mr D.T.Evans said of Mr Telford that his devotion to his many posts within the game will mean that he faces a very very full diary this coming season. We all wish him well.
Welsh Men's Senior Merit News 2011.
All England 2011
The only other observation I would make is how cool and calm Wayne Ditchfield is for such a young player. This was especially the case when playing the other young star of the game, Callum Wraight. Wayne, when being at one stage down and out, taking no notice of the antics of Callum and just got on with it.
I will leave the report of the final to Jack Gartside as I think he gets it spot on. See below. //// Mal Parry
Nicky Jones 2011 Merit Winner
1.Andrew Hughes (Wrexham)
Gerwyn Davies
Flintshire.
Francis Penlington
Glyndwr.
Craig Richardson
Gwynedd.
Adam Harris
BRIAN HAYES ESCLUSHAM
at BRYMBO.
MARTIN JONES LLAY Welsh Ladies Merit 2011
Jane Bowler beat Linda Williams, last year's champion, on what apparently was a tricky Llandudno Oval green.
Welsh Ladies Senior News 2011
Wales lost to Warickshire & Worcestershire in their Semi-Final match.
The away team that played at Pontesbury.(more pictures from Pontesbury can be found in the Photo Album)
Below Ben Riley with Roy Armson.
The Welsh Junior Team lost to Yorkshire, which means they do not progress to the semi-finals and like the Senior Mens team will now compete in The Supplementary Competition, the scores and reports are below.
Table after Final Session
Results from Final Round which was played at Connah's Quay B.C.
Table after Third Session
Results from Third Round which was played at Trefnant B.C.
Trefnant Session Times
Table after Second Session
Results from Second Round which was played at Llandudno Oval B.C.
Players session Times
Table after First Session
Results from First Round which was played at Esclusham B.C. Results from 2011 Qualifier @ Craig-y-Don
More Details are to be found in the different sections of which will eventually be found under 2011 season.
Welsh Number 1 player John Bailey (Llanrwst) lost in the final of the Spring Waterloo at Blackpool to Colin Beaman (Meole Brace). See the latest B.C.G.B.A. Newsletter below or to the left for details.
Welsh Merit Winner Nicky Jones has added the prestigious George Davies Trophy by winning the competition at The Colwyn Bay Bowls Festival.
Llay Welfare, who were representing Wales, just lost to Fishwick Ramblers (North Lancs & Fylde) by 13 points in the quarter final of the British Team Championship which was played at Todmorden. This was carried over from last year as a result of it being a wash out then.
Gordon Telford WCGBA President presenting the Cup to Nicky Jones.
There are 5 previous winners. ..... Do you know who they are? Two of them have already won it twice. ..... Do you know who these are? Can they join the two legends, Gwyn Morris and Eric Ashton, who have won it more than twice, Eric winning five titles and Gwyn winning four titles?
2.Craig Richardson (Glyndwr)
3.Gareth Foster (Glyndwr)
4.Francis Penlington (Flintshire)
5.Anthony Bailey (Gwynedd)
6.Nicky Jones (Gwynedd)
7.Nick Hughes (Glyndwr)
8.Trevor Heath (Glyndwr)
9.Gerwyn Davies (Wrexham)
10.DP Williams (Gwynedd)
11.Adam Harris (Gwynedd)
12.David Jones (Wrexham)
13.Ivor Jones (Glyndwr)
14.Dion Owen (Gwynedd)
15.Daniel Hughes (Wrexham)
16.Mike Riley (Flintshire)
The Qualifiers :
Wrexham.
Daniel Hughes
Andrew Hughes
David Jones
Mike Riley
Nick Hughes
Ivor Jones
Trevor Heath
Gareth Foster
Anthony Bailey
D.P Williams
Nicky Jones
Dion Owen
The Wrexham Welsh Merit Entries for 2011 are listed below with two to qualify from each green.
at PONCIAU PARK RHOS.
CARL BONATTI LLAY
COLIN JONES CUNLIFFE
DAVID A JONES ESCLUSHAM
ELFYN HUGHES GRESFORD VILL
ERYL JONES CUNLIFFE
GEOFF SAMUEL ESCLUSHAM
KEVIN NICHOLAS GRESFORD COLL
GRAHAM JAMES LLAY
IAN DUTTON ESCLUSHAM
IAN FORMSTONE GRESFORD VILLAGE
IAN JONES GRESFORD COLL
JOHN BONATTI LLAY
KERRIE JONES CUNLIFFE
LEWIS EDWARDS COEDPOETH
MARCUS HUGHES LLAY
MARK EVANS CHIRK
MARK LITTLEHALES JOHNSTOWN
RHYS HOPWOOD CUNLIFFE
RICHARD ZOLMAN LLAY
ROBIN BENNETT CUNLIFFE
SIMON TYLER LLAY
ANDREW HUGHES GRESFORD COLL
DANIEL HUGHES LLAY
MIKE GILPIN CUNLIFFE
CARL PEMBERTON ESCLUSHAM
GERAINT WILLIAMS GRESFORD COLL
STEVE CURBISHLEY CUNLIFFE
MIKE DAVIES ESCLUSHAM
GERWYN DAVIES GRESFORD COLL
PAUL HALLETT LLAY
KEVIN JONES ESCLUSHAM
CHRISTOPHER EDWARDS GRESFORD VILL
MIKE HUGHES LLAY
CRAIG GRIFFITHS ESCLUSHAM
GRAHAM ROGERS CUNLIFFE
G M DULSON ESCLUSHAM
DEREK UNWIN COEDPOETH
ANDY RILEY JOHNSTOWN
KEVIN PERRY CUNLIFFE
KEVIN STEVENSON JOHNSTOWN
JOEY WILLIAMS LLAY
GLYN LOCKETT ASTON
NEIL HAYES CUNL>IFFE
IAN SMITH CUNLIFFE
Losing semi finalists were Kirsty Jones and Emma Broad, who all go to Shropshire to represent Wales in the British Ladies' Championship.
The 2nd Round of The WPA will be played this Sunday 22nd May at Llandudno Oval players session times are below.
