What a difference a couple of days make as we went from 30C+ at the weekend to rain and 14C!  The start was delayed due to heavy rain and we managed to play 16 ends before bad light stopped play.  We took a deficit of five points with us but managed to overturn this with a winning margin of eight shots to claim a winning score of 66 - 58.  The rink stats were 3.5 to us and 1.5 to our hosts.  Thanks to Bicester for lending us Jordan, Phil and Ray to make the three triples, but unfortunately we were without Dan Wegerhoff as he spent the afternoon and evening at The Horton A & E with his eldest son who had been injured playing football.  We hope he is on the mend and fit and well enough to enjoy the upcoming school holidays.

 

Rink 1

Paul Jones, Mick Wilkins and Chris Twomey were in control from the off and picked up 10 ends to come home winners 14 - 9.

 

Rink 2

Yvonne Twomey and Graham Tyrrell were without Dan so played four woods each and were trailing by 3 points at 12 ends but a late surge saw them pick up the last four ends to hand in a respectable score of 15 - 11.  I know that at least one of them is feeling the effect of delivering 64 woods in an evening!

 

Rink 3

John Standen, Ray Perkins (Bic) and Ted Eley were trailing by 14 points at 12 ends but they picked up the last four ends to hand in a card of 12 - 18.

 

Rink 4

Jordan Bedford (Bic), Tony Bird and Dave Bryant didn't score until the 6th end and whilst they only won 6 ends they kept nibbling away and a couple of  threes towards the end saw them draw 11 points all.

 

Rink 5

Steve Clarke, Richard Lawrence and Phil Bannister (Bic) had the advantage of their skip being "local" and won 10 ends to hand in the same score as rink 1 and thereby share the bragging rights!

 

A big thank you to everyone who took part especially as the Banbury Road was closed due to an incident and for the less than July weather.