TAKING the evening trip to Penarth for this latest round of the Munro Cup, Millwood Bowling Club soon found themselves facing a Penarth side not ready to show any signs of making this an easy game to win.

After the first four ends had been played, Penarth had taken a 16 - 8 shot lead, which soon after became a 31 - 17 substantial lead by the time the eighth end had been played.

Penarth crushed any ideas of a comeback for at the 13th end Millwood found themselves even further behind, trailing by 53 shots to 37.

The final ends did see Millwood snatch back a few shots but too little to make any significant change to the outcome of the game, though a word of thanks to Millwood rink five for their contribution for their 17 shot win, which did make the final score a bit more respectable, although Penarth ran out winners by a 17 shot margin at 67 - 50.

Rink 2: P Davies, R Kirkby, B Lewis, C Fry (skip) 20

S Hopkins, P Childs, A Evans, G Williams (skip) 9

Rink 3: J Beanland, C Grant, D Plank, D Dalby (skip) 18

D Lewis, N Tutton, S Sewell, J Butler (skip) 8

Rink 4: T Buckingham, B Lansley, D Hilldrup, N Thomas (skip) 21

B Howcroft, H Spencer, J Slee, B Crockford (skip) 8

Rink 5: M Conway, D Shirley, R Willmott, D Clemens (skip) 8

K Lewys, G Smith, K Davies, P Taylor (skip) 25

Final score: Penarth 67, Millwood 50

Millwood welcomed Barry Romilly for this division four game with both sides hoping to win this keenly contested game.

Romilly soon settled into the game and after the fifth end, Romilly had taken a four shot advantage to lead by 16 – 20. On completion of the tenth end, the game had swung even further away from Millwood for them to be trailing by nine shots at 33 - 42.

On the 15th end Romilly had opened up a 19 shot gap to lead by 42 shots to 61. As much as Millwood tried, things did not look any better, for on completion of the 21st and final end, Romilly had increased their lead to run out worthy winners by a margin of 33 shots to win 57 - 90.

Rink 2: T Mahoney, N Parry, A Evans, G Williams (skip) 14

C Champ, P Clarke, R Hewitson, R Wyatt (skip) 28

Rink 3: A Annis, R Thomas, K Davies, P Taylor (skip) 12

D Noble, AM Jones, J Crout, HD Jones (skip) 23

Rink 4: B Webb, D Lougher, A Bumford, J Slee (skip) 19

P James, A Woolcoch, M Grovon, D Bannister (skip) 16

Rink 5: K Lewys, H Spencer, M Williams, B Crockford (skip) 12

J Coles, B Gough, B Cheal, F Phillips (skip) 23

Final score: Millwood 57, Barry Romilly 90