Fun Bowls

A few fun bowls tournaments are being held in the Armagh Zone area over the next few months!!   Tullysaran:- Fri 15th July, Fri 22nd July, Fri 5th August and Fri 12th August.   Armagh Masonic:- Fri 29th July and Sat 30th July   St Luke's Loughgall:- Mon 01st August, Mon 08th August, Mon 15th August, Mon 22nd August and Mon 29th August   Mullabrack continues running every Wednesday night starting back again on Wednesday 20th July.   Play starts at 7pm each evening and everyone is welcome!!

Richhill Fun Bowls

A fun bowls tournament is being run in St. Matthew's Richhill hall over 4
Thursday evenings: 9, 16, 23 June and 7 July. Play commences each evening
at 7.00.

Everyone welcome!

St. Anthony's U25 singles a great success.

The first Under 25 shortmat singles tournament organised by Sean Trainor has been a great success. Players came from far and wide to participate with William Boggs from Ardstraw emerging victorious. A full report of the tournament can be found on the BowlsNI website. Congratulations to Sean and St. Anthony's on this great initiative and hopefully it will become an annual event.

St. Mark's trio retain National Ladies Triples title.

Rachel Cassells, May Cassells and Pauline Beattie have retained their National Ladies Triples title after beating Linda Carelton's Monaghan triple 14-3 in yesterday's final in Richhill Leisure Centre. Pauline was also aiming to defend her National Ladies Singles title but lost narrowly in the final to Mid Ulster's Brigid Davidson in a great game of bowls.

 

Other results from finals day were as follows:

 

NC Singles: D Hamilton 13 : 6 J Wilson

Jun singles: N Hand 18 : 7 J Beatty

NC Pairs: J Quinn 10 v 9 C Mackin

NC Triples: J Wilson 9 v 6 L Graham

NC Rinks: D Morrison 10 v 9 G Burke

L Pairs: R Brennan 14 v 9 M Tommons

Over 55 pairs: D Turtle 13 v 11 E Irwin

Promotion / Relegation Update

The latest round of results has confirmed Mullavilly's promotion along
with Kilmore to Division 1. Tandgragee Golf Club needed 6 points from
their final match last night against St. Malachy's to go up, but could
only manage 5.

In Division 1 Tullysaran require 18 points from their last 3 games to
survive and send Waringstown down along with Portadown Golf Club.

(League tables will be updated over the weekend.)

Promotion / relegation going to the wire

With the season drawing to a close, there are couple of promotion /
relegation issues to be decided. In Division 1 Portadown Golf Club cannot
avoid the drop but the question is whether Tullysaran can catch
Waringstown or St. John's Moira to avoid joining the Golf Club in Division
2 next year. Tullysaran currently are 18½ points adrift of Waringstown but
have 4 games in hand, so the outcome may not be known until well into
April.

In Division 2, perennial yo-yo team Kilmore are going back up again to
Division 1. It looks to be a straight fight between their neighbours
Mullavilly and Tandragee GC to see who joins them. Mullavilly have the
points on the board, but Tandragee GC have 3 games in hand and are only 8½
points behind Mullavilly. Mathematically any of Queen Street, St. Paul's,
St. Patrick's Blue, or St. Columba's could still go up, but it would take
a dramatic collapse by Tandragee GC in particular for this to happen.

St. Mark's claim runners up spot

St. Mark's have finished runners up to St. Anthony's in this seasons Zone
League Division 1. Needing 10 points from their last 2 games to overtake
St. Saviour's, they got 5 points of Tullysaran last Friday and then 7 of
Waringstown last night.