St Marks Pairs Tournament

Wellington Pairs

Wellington Bowling Club Trevor Scott Memorial Pairs Tournament

Venue: Unionist Hall Enniskillen

Dates: Mon 19 – Wed 21 September 2016. Play starts 7.30pm each evening.

Finals: Thu 22 September 2016.

Licence: W17/15

Contact: Caroline Scott 07841100546

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Moneyglass Annual Singles Tournament

Nights of Play: Mon 5 Sep to Fri 9 Sep 2016

Finals: Sat 10 Sep 2016

Venue: Moneyglass Community Centre, 10 Loughbeg Road, Moneyglass, BT41 3TN

Licence no. MA-01-16/17

• Tournament to be held in the Community Centre nightly at 7.30pm.

• Entry fee £4 each, must accompany an entry form.  (Cheques made payable to MG Bowling Club).

• All games played under I.I.B.A. rules.

• Games will be NINE ends.  No trial ends.

• Competitors must report to the controller 10 minutes before time specified.  If more than 15 minutes after specified time, competitor will be disqualified.

• The Committee will endeavour to facilitate competitors, if the specific dates are requested, (alternative dates would be helpful).

• PROPER FOOTWEAR MUST BE WORN.

• Final night Saturday.

• Entry forms to be returned not later than Friday 26^th  August 2016 to the secretary, Mr. Henry Marron, 67 Roguery Road, Toomebridge, Co. Antrim, BT41 3TJ. Tel. 028 79650382, Mob 07784286048 or email henrymarron65@gmail.com

 

St. Matthew's Fun Tournament

Flo McNally is running a fun tournament every Monday night in June in St Matthews Richhill, with the proceeds going to Chest Heart & Stroke and Children's Cancer Fund. Please try and support these two very worthy charities if you can.

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Success for locals at World Bowls

Players from Armagh Zone had a successful weekend at this year’s World Bowls in Manchester. Dumgor’s Aidan Corrigan, Cranagill’s Mark Sproule and St. Anthony’s Derek McCallion teamed up to lift the world triples title. St. Mark’s Andrew Leckey along with West Down’s DJ Wilson, Jonny Wilson and Eddie Campbell lifted the fours title.

 

Ireland also won the singles with Lisburn’s Raymond Stubbs emerging victorious.

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St. Mark's clinch league title

St. Mark’s have won this season’s Zone League Division 1 title with a game to spare. They defeated Tullysaran on Friday 18 March gaining 5 points in the process which was enough to overtake Armagh GC who have completed their fixtures.

 

Portadown Golf Club have been relegated from Division 1 and will be replaced by Division 2 champions St. John’s Moira.

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St. Anthony's win Zone Cup

Congratulations to St Anthonys who have won this season’s Zone Cup after a tense 1 shot victory last night against St. Marks at Bannview.

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Armagh Ladies Interzone Champions

Armagh Ladies are the 2016 Ladies Interzone champions. They defeated Donegal in today’s final in Killyclogher by 18 shots. The game was a repeat of last years final in which Donegal emerged victorious, but the local ladies gained revenge to lift the title for the 7^th time, their last win being in 2011. Rink scores to follow.

 

 

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Ladies Interzone Final

Armagh ladies will travel to Killyclougher once again to face Donegal in the final of the Ladies Interzone next Saturday 20th Feb.  A bus has been arranged and will be leaving the Fairgreen, Portadown at 11.30am. Any players or spectators wishing to travel by bus, please contact Jal (07756221840) ASAP to secure your seat. A meal had also been arranged on the way home, stopping off at Kelly's Inn. Please let Jal know if you wish to attend the meal also.

Ladies through to Interzone Final

Armagh ladies are through to this year's interzone final after a thrilling 48-46 victory in Cork. Armagh were 12 down at half time but a strong second half performance saw them through to meet either West Down or Donegal in the final.

Rink scores to follow.

Cork - Travel arrangements

Armagh ladies will travel to Cork for the semifinals of the Ladies Inter Zone on Saturday 30 Jan 2016. All being well they will be travelling down on the Saturday morning and coming back on Sunday. Any players or spectators wishing to travel by bus could you please contact Jal ASAP to book your seat on the bus and also your hotel room.

There's only 2 weeks to get all booked so please try and confirm your interest to Jal by this Friday at the very latest.

 

Mixed fortunes for Interzone teams

Both Armagh Interzone teams have been in action in the last couple of weeks in the quarter finals of their respective competitions.

 

The men were first up on Sat 9 January away to Oriel. The first half was reasonable close with Armagh trailing by 4 at half time, but the second half belonged to Oriel with the hosts running away to a comfortable 29 shot win. Rink scores were as follows:

 

M Sproule 5 v 6 P Duff

A Leckey 10 v 7 S Trainor

T Mulholland 7 v 13 S McMahon

 

Armagh 22 Oriel 26

 

J Beattie 3 v 10 K Conroy

M Trainor 2 v 16 P Hanlon

S McSorley 11 v 15 G McCabe

 

Armagh 38-67 Oriel

 

The ladies fared much better in their Q/F in Ardstraw against Mid Tyrone on 16 Jan. The damage was done in the first half with Armagh building up a 25 shot lead. The second half rinks added a further 10 shots to the overall winning margin to set up a S/F clash away to Cork. Rink scores as follows:

 

First half

W Sterritt 5 - 23 P Beattie

J McKee 5 - 9 R Cassells

V Fox 5 - 8 D Marshall

 

Half time

Mid Tyrone 15-40 Armagh

 

Second Half

H McGlone 2-12 I Douglas

C McCrossan 7-8 L Douglas

J Henderson 7-6 I Doone

 

Final Score

Mid Tyrone 31-66 Armagh

National Championship Results

National Final Results

Singles winners:
S McSorley (St Marks) bt S Whittle (Cranagill)

A Leckey (St Marks) bt C Trainor (St Anthonys)

D McDonald (St Anthonys) bt J Beattie (St Marks)

Pairs
A Roberts & J Beattie (St Marks) bt G Crothers & L McCarten (Armagh GC)

Rinks
A Haffey, P Whittle, T Mulholland & M Sproule (Cranagill) bt A Crozier, L Strain, E King & R Collen (Markethill)

Over 55 Pairs
N McClure & L McCarten (Armagh GC) bt T Perry & B Martin (Waringstown)

Ladies Pairs
M Cassells & P Beattie (St Marks) bt M Hobson & D Agnew (St Saviours)

Ladies Triples
M Cassells, R Cassells & P Beattie (St Marks) bt R Beattie, I Doone & C Beattie (Drumgor)

Junior singles
R Adair (Clare) bt A Robinson (St Marks)

Junior Pairs
Z & N Minish (Cranagill) bt B McMillen & R Adair (Drumgor/Clare)

Ladies singles and open triples not played due to bereavements and will be played at a later date.

 

Armagh Men v Oriel

The following have been selected to represent Armagh against Oriel on Saturday 9th Jan 2016 in Corduff Community Hall at 2pm.

St Marks Open Pairs Tournament

St Marks, Portadown are holding their annual Open Pairs Tournament from: 

Mon 11 Jan - Fri 15 Jan 2016  
Finals Sat 16 Jan 2016

£6 per pair

Entries to:
May Cassells - 028 38331323
Pauline Beattie - 07921 508878

St Marks Open Pairs Tournament

Zone Teams march on

Both Armagh Mens and Ladies teams are through to the quarter finals of their Interzone competitions. The men travelled to North Down on Sat 28 Nov and came away with a comfortable 36 shot win. Scores as follows:

 

M Sproule 8 v 5 M Hastings
A Leckey 18 v 3 S Hedley
T Mulholland 11 v 14 K Taylor

J Beattie 20 v 4 G McKee
M Trainor 8 v 3 R Hastings
S McSorley 9 v 9 M Caughey

 

Final score Armagh 74 North Down 38

 

The men now go to Oriel on 9 January 2016.

 

The ladies had an equally comfortable win yesterday in Mullabrack against Mid Antrim. Scores:

R Cassells 20-7 M Wilson
I Doone 12-7 A Bacon
S Whittle 11-7 H Lynn
I Douglas 5-6 A Agnew
F McNally 9-7 J Wilson
P Beattie 12-5 E Gage

Final Score Armagh 69-39 Mid Antrim

The ladies now travel to Mid Tyrone on 16 January 2016

Ballinderry Pairs

Men ease past Mid Antrim

Congratulations to the Armagh men's team who had a convincing win in the end against Mid Antrim in Killymurris.
It was a very tight first half with only 3 shots in it at the break in Armagh's favour.

T Mulholland 10-10
A Leckey 12-9
M Sproule 8-8

The second half was a different story though with Armagh proving too strong on the day adding a further 27 shots to their tally to come away with a 30 shot win.

S McSorley 12-4
M Trainor 11-3
J Beattie 14-3

Armagh will now face North Down who beat Cork today by 8 shots.

 

So near yet so far for Beatties

Drumgor’s David and Rosemary Beattie will not get any closer to winning the Champion of Champion pairs tournament. On Saturday 17 October they got to the final of the prestigious tournament in Shaws Bridge Belfast. Going into the last end they were 9-7 up against N. Rutledge from Sixmilecross but dropped a 3 to lose by 1 shot. A great effort from the local pair.