Bowls International — November 2017

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BOWLS England has named two new caps in its team to participate in the BIBC International Series at Victoria Park, Royal Leamington

Spa, from June 30. Devon’s Ollie Lucas and Huntingdonshire’s Alex Walton are the two new faces as the team bids to claim the Series for

the fourth successive year.

MEN'S TEAM:

Ben Render (Yorkshire), Andrew

Knapper (Berkshire), Tom

Millership (Warwickshire) & Jamie

Walker (Northamptonshire);

John Rednall (Suffolk), Matt

Marchant (Hampshire), Chris

Gale (Lancashire) & Robert

Paxton (Devon);

Steve Mitchinson (Essex), John

McGuinness (Buckinghamshire),

Ian Lesley (Devon) & Jamie

Chestney (Devon);

Lee Haywood (Devon), Louis

Ridout (Devon), Chris Yeomans

(Northumberland) & David Bolt

(Durham);

Ashley Clipston (Derbyshire),

Taylor Monk (Kent), Mark Read

(Cornwall) & Sam Tolchard (Devon);

Ollie Lucas (Devon), Andrew

Walters (Worcestershire), Alex

Walton (Cambridgeshire) &

Stephen Farish (Cumbria)

Reserves:

(to be notified if required to travel):

James Amery (Somerset),

Marcus Clifton (Leicestershire),

David Forster (Cumbria), Travis

Meller (Isle of Wight), Edward

Morris (Essex), Martin Spencer

(Lincolnshire)

Captain: John McGuinness

(Buckinghamshire)

Team Manager: John Bell

(Cumbria)

The women's team includes

three new caps who will

participate in the BIWBC

International Series at Belmont

Bowls Club in Belfast from June

17, 2018.

Seventeen-year-old Imogen

Jenner from Kent will make

her Senior International debut

alongside Cornwall’s Michelle

Moore and Devon’s Harriet

Stevens.

Surrey’s Margaret Smith and

Lincolnshire’s Annalisa Dunham

have been recalled to the side

as the team bids to defend the

Series title.

WOMEN'S TEAM:

Donna Brookes

(Buckinghamshire), Margaret

Smith (Surrey), Annalisa Dunham

(Lincolnshire) and Ellen Falkner

(Cambridgeshire);

Imogen Jenner (Kent), Michelle

Moore (Cornwall), Michelle

Coleman (Huntingdonshire) and

Wendy King (Kent);

Kirsty Richards (Warwickshire),

Amy Walters (Worcestershire),

Stef Branfield (Somerset) and

Amy Gowshall (Lincolnshire);

Rebecca Field (Norfolk), Debbie

Seward (Surrey), Katherine

Hawes (Oxfordshire) and Natalie

Chestney (Devon);

Laura Holden (Somerset),

Jamie-Lea Winch (Leicestershire),

Lorraine Kuhler (Sussex) and Sian

Honnor (Kent);

Katherine Rednall (Suffolk),

Harriet Stevens (Devon),

Sophie Tolchard (Devon)

and Rebecca Wigfield

(Northamptonshire)

Reserves:

(to be notified if required to travel):

Amy Banes (Kent), Kirsty

Hembrow (Somerset), Carol

Baxter (Cumbria), Jo Skelton

(Derbyshire), Lorraine

Hackett (Devon), Katie Smith

(Northamptonshire)

Captain: Sian Honnor (Kent)

Team Manager: Gail Gilkes

(Oxfordshire)

A

lthough attracting clubs from all corners

of the country, no one travelled further

than the Dutch rink of Henny and Marina

Van De Burgt and Thea and Sjaak Snel.

Their enthusiasm won many friends and

admirers when they again came from Holland

to compete in the Warners Champion of

Champions.

They eased through the round robin stage,

including a hard fought 7-7 draw against Bill

Ward's rink. Drawn together again in the

quarter finals the Dutch travelling supporters

were hopeful as they held a brief 4-3 lead,

before Ward moved away to win 15-8.

“We have all enjoyed every minute at Lakeside”

said Thea Snell. “We will certainly be travelling

back and hope we, and perhaps other bowlers

from Holland, can be involved in the finals.”

DUTCH LIGHT UP THE CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS

Thea and Sjaak

Snel, Warner

Leisure Hotels

Damian Skelton

Marina and Henny

van de Burgt

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