MILLWOOD Bowling Club welcomed Barry Central for the SVL League game on Saturday, April 20, where the home team ran out winners by a 26 shot margin.

After the fifth end had been played, Millwood held the very slenderest lead by a single shot advantage, 13-12. On completion of the tenth end, Millwood had taken a six shot lead to 33—27.

Battling against a Barry Central side, after the 15th end had increased their lead by a single shot to take a 47-40 score. With a final spurt towards the finish line Millwood applied some final pressure on Barry Central, where the home side gained a valuable 17 shot advantage to take the game by 70 shots to 53.

This result must have been a great boost for the Millwood players, but all credit to Barry Central for playing the game in the best of sportsmanship, even though battling with a loss of two players, hence the reduction in the Central's final scores.

As with every game of bowls, all members enjoy each other’s hospitality whether home or away, which goes to show the very sociable side of bowls.

Millwood v Barry Central (Millwood scores first)

Rink 2: T Mahoney, H Hodgkinson, G Stone and D Gorringe (skip) 19

C Ditchburn, P Harris, A Castle and K Tanner (skip) 15

Rink 3: A Thompson, G Smith, D Cameron and A Norris (skip) 17

M Pipar, S Downer and T Goddard (skip) 14 (three points deducted due to missing player)

Rink 4: R Willis, M Evans, S Sewell and M Williams (skip) 21

B Packer, J Frowd, E Hands and T Khaged (skip) 9

Rink 5: B Howcroft, P Childs, J Butler, AA Williams (skip) 13

D Hunt, G Goldthorne, D Goddard (skip) 16 (six points deducted for missing player)

Millwood 70

Barry Central 54

On Wednesday, April 27, Millwood took on Splott Phoenix in a friendly game which was played with a bit of sunshine, a lot of hailstone and a bit of rain.

Although there should have been a game of 18 ends, it was decided to call a halt after an allotted 15 ends had been played. As can be seen by this result, Splott Phoenix came away winners by 13 shots.

At the end of the fourth end, Splott had taken an eight shot lead at 8-16, and at the eighth end, Millwood found that Splott were even further ahead by leading 19- 32.

When the 12th end had been played, Millwood had reduced the Splott lead to only eight shots to 36—44.

On the final 15th end, Splott had managed to take an even further lead and ran out winners by a margin of 13 shots to win by 57—44.

Credit must go to the hearty souls who managed to keep playing through the bad conditions.

The clubhouse must have made a very welcome retreat after the game, for the usual food, drinks and hospitality.

Millwood v Splott Phoenix (Millwood scores first)

Rink 2: K Lewis, G Smith, K Thomas and B Crockford (skip) 8

S Carr, G Rose, R Barry and G Watts (skip) 13

Rink 3: A Anniss, P Childs, H Spencer and A Evans (skip) 15

G Thomas, R Ashman, L Harvey and V Griffin (skip) 12

Rink 4: D Lewis, C Jones, A Bumford and G Williams (skip) 13

J Webber, T Healey, A Spiers and R Pearce (skip) 20

Rink 5: S Hopkins, B Davies, K Davies and P Taylor (skip) 8

A Czyzynski, J Spiteri, G Wilcox and D Wilcox (skip) 12

Millwood 44

Splott Phoenix 57

Visiting Dinas Powys on Saturday, April 30, for this Carruthers Cup game, Millwood came up against a dominant Dinas Powys who won the game by a very hefty 50 shots.

At the fifth end, Millwood found that they had a tough game ahead as they were trailing by 12 shots to 25.

Unfortunately the game swung even further away from Millwood at the tenth end because Dinas Powys had taken a 24 shot lead by leading 27—51. After the 15th end, things had become a real battle for Millwood to even try to make any impression on the scores.

Dinas Powys had taken a 37—75 lead, a massive 38 shot difference.

Playing the game to the 21st and final end, Millwood tried to pull something to make a difference but all to no avail. Dinas Powys piled even more pressure on Millwood to finally take the game by a 50 shot difference for a final score of 51 shots to 101.

Dinas Powys v Millwood (Dinas Powys results first)

Rink 1: J Ackland, T Hurcom, A Harvey and C Blake (skip) 30

B Webb, K Lewis, J Slee and B Crockford (skip) 17

Rink 2: D Parker, Des, C Todd and M Ackland (skip) 22

R Thomas, K Thomas, H Spencer and A Evans (skip) 11

Rink 3: J Coles, P Marks, R Cowling and R Janes (skip) 25

D Lougher, B Davies, K Davies and P Taylor (skip) 11

Rink 4: M Gershensen, D Vowles, G Griffiths and A Medding (skip) 24

M Lucas, A Bumford, N Parry and G Williams (skip) 12

Dinas Powys 101

Millwood 51