Mens Zone Team Selected

Team to represent Armagh v Oriel on Sat 26th Oct in St Saviours at 2pm is as follows:

C Deering
G Crothers
J Richardson
A Leckey

P Garvey
S McCall
D Beattie
M Trainor

P Moffett
C Trainor (St Anthonys)
G Culbert
A Roberts

S Breen
L McCartan
K Trainor
A Corrigan

J Hendren
C Mulholland
R Hunter
J Beattie

P Whittle
N Uprichard
T Mulholland
M Sproule

Subs: C Trainor (Tullysaran), W Gilpin

Any players unavailable please contact Flo ASAP.

All players to be at venue for 1.45pm wearing NEW ARMAGH TOPS and black trousers.

Team sheets are in the post, please refer for food allocation for each rink.

Champion of Champions Draws

 

This year's Champion of Champions takes place on Sat 9 November in Shaw's Bridge Bowling Stadium Belfast. Armagh are well represented in all the competitions. The full draws can be found on the IIBA Website.

Zone Double Header

 

The Armagh Zone teams face a tough start to this season's Interzone competition. Both teams have been drawn at home to Oriel in the first round with the men playing on Sat 26 October and the ladies the following Saturday (2 Nov). The full draws can be found on the IIBA website at the links below:

 

Mens Draw

 

Ladies Draw

National Draws now online

The draws for this year’s National Championships are now online here.

Armagh win Charity Zone Event

(From Armagh Zone on Facebook)

 

Congratulations to both Armagh Ladies and Mens teams today on winning the Charity Zone Event against West Down Zone.
The ladies kicked off the action in Loughbrickland Presbyterian Church Hall with Catherine McMillen's rink taking on West Downs Lynn Martin on mat 1. Catherine and her rink of Margaret Dempster, Linda Milligan and Hilary Agnew all played excellent bowls to race off to an early lead and never looked back and eventually won 13-4.
Mat 2 saw Agnes Crozier, Sophia Minish, Leslie Strain and Elizabeth Smyth meeting the ever dangerous Angela Cannaway. After 9 ends nothing could separate the 2 rinks but Angela managed to lift a count of 3 on the last end to give the West Down rink a 11-8 win.
On Mat 3 Rachel Cassells and her rink Diane Bell, Rosemary Beattie and Sandra Whittle eased their way to a 11-4 victory over Patricia Martins rink.
At the half way stage Armagh were leading 32-19
Christina Breen, Ann Patton, Daphne Marshall and Pauline Beattie all played excellent bowls and stormed their way to a 17-4 win over the experienced Bernie Conlan.
Flo McNally and her rink Ann Crozier, Greta Garvey, Jean Hawthorne had a slow start against Ann Poland, but after a count of 6, Flo never looked backed and ran out 15-7 winners.
Marlene Hobson, Michelle Wright, May Cassells and Diane Agnew had a tight encounter with Evelyn Robb. The ever reliable Armagh foursome played well throughout and came away with a 9-5 win.
Final Score West Down 35-73 Armagh
It was a great performance on the day by Armagh Ladies and they once again retained the 'Ivan Marshall Memorial Cup' for the fourth consecutive year.

The men took centre stage next with Armagh looking to regain the 'Michael Catney Memorial Cup' which they narrowly lost out on last year.
The returning Martin Trainor and his team mates Pat Garvey, Stevie McCall and David Beattie had a great game with West Downs Robert Kidd. Nothing could split the two rinks after 10 ends with the game ending up in a 10 all draw.
Paul Whittle, Colin Deering, Terry Mulholland and Mark Sproule came up against West Downs Cecil Dillion. Mark's rink fought hard and eventually came away with a 6 shot victory 14-9.
Eddie Campbell's West Down rink came up against Aidan Corrigan and his rink William Gilpin, Sean Breen and Kieran Trainor. Again there wasn't much separating these two rinks but Aidan managed to seal 10-6 win after 10 ends.
At the halfway stage Armagh had their noses in front with a 9 shot lead 34-25.
The second half got underway with Paul Moffett, Nigel Uprichard, Gary Culbert and Alan Roberts taking on John Martin. The Armagh rink stormed off to a 6-0 lead and after a mini fight back from West Down, Alan guided his rink to a 9-5 victory.
Chris Trainor, George Crothers, Jal Richardson and Andrew Leckey found tough opposition in West Downs Johnny Wilson. The Armagh rink fought hard throughout but found themselves 2 down going into the last end. The Armagh rink were lying 2 for the draw with only Johnny's last bowl to come. The West Down skip played the perfect running shot to give him a 11-7 win over the Armagh rink.
The final game of the day was between Armagh's Jim Hendren, Chris Mulholland, Raymond Hunter and Joe Beattie who faced Alan Johnston and his rink. Joe's rink started off well and were leading 5-3 after 4 ends, then a count of 7 on the 5th end for the Armagh foursome gave the Armagh rink the breathing space they needed and they eased to a 14-9 victory.
Final Score West Down 50-64 Armagh

After a great days bowling, a cheque was presented to the Marie Currie Cancer Nurses Charity for a grand total of £2400. A big thank you must go out to all players and non players who raised this fabulous amount for a very worthy cause.

St Marks Win Club Championships

Congratulations to St Marks Portadown on becoming the 2013 Club Champions beating defending champions Cookstown Parochial by 4 shots in the final. 

St Marks had reached the final stages by beating Cooley, Larne Falcons, Tamlaght and 1st Ahoghill, setting up a semi final clash with Benvarden from North Eastern Zone. 
St Marks edged in front early on in the game and held on to eventually win by 8 shots.

With Cookstown Parochial beating Redeemer in the other semi final, St Marks would now face the defending champions in the final.

The final was hard fought over all 3 mats with both teams playing excellent bowls. St Marks took the lead early but with no more than 3 or 4 shots in the game, the final was far from over. 
Cookstown fought back and reduced the deficit to 1 shot but St Marks held their nerve over the remaining ends and added a further 3 shots to eventually win by 4 shots.

Charity Zone Match

Armagh mens and ladies teams will once again face neighbouring zone West Down next Sat 12th Oct in Loughbrickland in the annual Charity Zone Competition with play starting at 11.30am.

The men will be playing for the 'Michael Catney Memorial Cup' while the Ladies will compete for the 'Ivan Marshall Memorial Cup'.
All money raised will be going to Marie Curie Cancer Nurses.

Format will be:
Run 1 - Ladies (11.30am)
Run 2 - Mens (12.45pm)
Run 3 - Ladies (2.30pm)
Run 4 - Mens (4.00pm)

Teams as follows:

Ladies: 11.30am
Rink 1 - Ann Crozier, L Milligan, H Agnew, C McMillen
Rink 2 - A Crozier, S Minish, L Strain, E Smyth
Rink 3 - D Bell, R Beattie, S Whittle, R Cassells

Ladies: 2.30pm
Rink 4 - M Dempster, G Garvey, J Hawthorne, F McNally
Rink 5 - M Hobson, M Wright, M Cassells, D Agnew
Rink 6 - C Breen, A Patton, D Marshall, P Beattie

Subs - C Dempster, F Robinson

Men: 12.45pm
Rink 1 - P Whittle, N Uprichard, T Mulholland, D Wright
Rink 2 - W Gillpin, S Breen, M Sproule, A Corrigan
Rink 3 - P Garvey, S McCall, D Beattie, M Trainor

Men: 4.00pm
Rink 4 - C Deering, K Trainor, G Culbert, A Roberts
Rink 5 - C Trainor, G Crothers, J Richardson, A Leckey
Rink 6 - J Hendren, C Mulholland, Ray Hunter, J Beattie

Subs - R Hunter, P Moffett, A Robinson, J Robinson

Anyone unable to play, please contact Flo McNally ASAP.

Charity Zone Matches

Armagh mens and ladies teams will once again face neighbouring zone West Down this Sat 12th Oct in Loughbrickland in the annual Charity Zone Competition with play starting at 11.30am.

The men will be playing for the 'Michael Catney Memorial Cup' while the Ladies will compete for the 'Ivan Marshall Memorial Cup'.
All money raised will be going to Marie Curie Cancer Nurses.

Format will be: 
Run 1 - Ladies (11.30am)
Run 2 - Mens (12.45pm)
Run 3 - Ladies (2.30pm)
Run 4 - Mens (4.00pm)

Teams as follows:

Ladies: 11.30am 
Rink 1 - Ann Crozier, L Milligan, H Agnew, C McMillen 
Rink 2 - A Crozier, S Minish, L Strain, E Smyth 
Rink 3 - D Bell, R Beattie, S Whittle, R Cassells

Ladies: 2.30pm
Rink 4 - M Dempster, G Garvey, J Hawthorne, F McNally
Rink 5 - M Hobson, M Wright, M Cassells, D Agnew 
Rink 6 - C Breen, A Patton, D Marshall, P Beattie

Subs - C Dempster, F Robinson 

Men: 12.45pm
Rink 1 - P Whittle, N Uprichard, T Mulholland, D Wright 
Rink 2 - W Gillpin, S Breen, M Sproule, A Corrigan 
Rink 3 - P Garvey, S McCall, D Beattie, M Trainor

Men: 4.00pm
Rink 4 - C Deering, K Trainor, G Culbert, A Roberts 
Rink 5 - C Trainor, G Crothers, J Richardson, A Leckey
Rink 6 - J Hendren, C Mulholland, Ray Hunter, J Beattie

Subs - R Hunter, P Moffett, A Robinson, J Robinson 

Anyone unable to play, please contact Flo McNally ASAP.

Good luck to all involved.