We have a very proud Chairman and he has written this piece setting out the Club’s successes over the last few weeks……

It has been a remarkable few weeks for OBC.  A number of our teams have had very successful league campaigns.  We finished runners up in Ormskirk Premier League with Ian Gill winning the league averages and a total of 6 of our players finishing in the top 20. Congratulations to Ian on his achievement of losing only one game out of 18 played. Ormskirk Castle secured promotion from Division 1 and are now back in the top league, where they belong, with 4 bowlers finishing in the top 20.

Ormskirk Castle also secured runners-up spot in Division 2 of the Aughton District League and also secured promotion, with Peter Bailey completing the perfect season with 12 unbeaten matches to win the averages. Congratulations to both Ormskirk Castle teams.

Dave Ball also led our Maghull League team to runner up spoilt in the 4th Division and secured promotion to the 3rd Division for next season (subject to possible league restructure.

However, the success has not ended there! On 11th September Ian Gill and Ian Mayne won the Ormskirk League pairs title. In the last 8 the Ians beat D. Stephenson and D. Scott in the quarter-finals and D. Knowles and D. Doyle in the semi-finals, winning both games to 11. These were impressive results but the best was yet to come with a 21 v 15 winner over Dave Fenney and Tim Hodge, two excellent  bowlers. It was a great result and all at OBC are very proud of their achievements.

However, the silverware trail didn’t end there! Two OBC pairings had played their way through to the Westhead League pairs finals night last Friday – Steve James and Chris Horsfall and Ian Mayne and Mike Fagan. Steve and Chris bowled very well in the quarters and semi and had single figures victories in both. Ian and Mike achieved a remarkable comeback in the quarter final being 18-3 down to Andy Slater and Lol Wells to run out 21-18 winners. Mike Fagan was instrumental in starting the comeback with some inspired leading. Mike and Ian then beat Don Morris and Tim Hodge in the semi to set up an all OBC final. Ian and Mike bowled very well, particularly on corner marks, to take the final to 13 and were worthy winners. Again, all at OBC are proud of the achievements of all four finalists and are delighted that members of our club now hold both of these pairs trophies.

Finally, good luck to all OBC members playing in the Ormskirk and Aughton League singles starting this Tuesday. Surely we couldn’t win that as well could we?

Thanks to everyone for their contributions on the greens this season. It has been our most successful campaign to date. Everyone has enjoyed their bowling and represented the club magnificently. Look out for an announcement shortly about our winter singles bowling ladder and the Chairmen’s cup. The bowling never stops at OBC, especially now we’ve got our lights!