ome Guard vs Wilmcote. The visitors took an early lead and pressed their advantage hitting only bulls and fours. Jamie Clarke shot his second possible of the season and Lester Langford missed just one bull for 34 points. Three of the remaining shooters hit 33s and the team got the highest score for the second week running with 230 points. Home Guard shot valiantly with Tom Morris, Andy Morris and Alan Brookes all missing out on a possible by one point but it was not enough and the team scored 223 points.

Avon vs Binton. A Avon had six shooters for this match and started with two solid scores of 30 and 33 from Bill Fleming and Alison McMillan. Binton’s first shooter was unlucky to have a missed shot and he ended on a low score but Andy Smith shot a possible to keep the team in the match. Avon shot steadily hanging on to a narrow lead until the last man. Binton kept their shots tight hitting only fours and bulls and with seven shooters they on the match by just two points with 211 points.

Binton B vs Avenue. This proved to be a very close match with first Avenue taking the lead then losing it to the home team then in the final accounting snatching the match by one point. Binton’s top shots were Steve Hodges 32 and Chris Green 31. Avenue’s top shots were Steve Parrack who just missed out on a possible with six out of seven bulls and James Wilby who shot 33.

MEB vs Clifford. MEB, who are still looking for new team members started well with 32 from Paul Onions but with some threes on the target plate their next three shooters were unable to hit scores in the thirties. Last man, Derek Powers stayed out of the threes for a score of 30. With two A N Other scores they finished on 194 points. Clifford hit mainly fours but Jay Morris hit four bulls for 32 and Trevor Morris and Matt Carvell both shot 30. The final score line saw Clifford win the match with 203 points.

Matches this week Avenue vs MEB; Binton A vs Home Guard; Clifford vs Avon and Wilmcote vs Binton B.

Report by Juana Everett, to be published on 15th September 2016