Ormskirk Bowling Club

The club will be holding further taster sessions today (Thursday 24th) and next Thursday 31st, both at 7pm. Just turn up, no need to book.

A big thank you to all those club members who came and helped move the 13 heavy floodlight poles up to the green – the chiropractors and osteopaths will be busy in the area for some time to come!!  The poles should be installed over the weekends of 2nd/3rd June and the 9th/10th June.  The lights should then be installed the following weekend.  Exciting times, it will be great to get both greens floodlit.

Ian Mayne and Ian Gill are representing the Club today at the ‘Wembley ‘ of crown green bowls, the Waterloo, in a pairs competition. Update: they lost 21-17😩

The Club will be holding a free beginners taster session at 7pm this coming Thursday (17th May).  Everyone is welcome and have a try at bowling on our superb facilities whatever age or ability – just turn up. No special equipment or clothing is necessary, just wear trainers or flat soled shoes.  If any members would like to come along to help out they would be more than welcome – why not bring a non-playing friend along?  Crown green bowling is a great cheap sport to get some gentle exercise and to socialise so come and give it a try.

There were 7 Members of our club representing Lancashire Juniors today. Well done to all those who represented the County against South York’s, both in the home leg at Wigan Subs (Emma Gill, Rylan Irwin, Chris Farrell and Brandon Deegan) and in the Away Leg in Sheffield (Andrew Arnold,  Lily Copeland and Harry Copeland). This demonstrates the growing strength of our junior section who should be honoured to represent their county.

Great result for the Ormskirk BC team last night in the Ormskirk Premier League. The picture speaks for itself. 😀

If you come down to the Club tonight you will get a feast of bowling. On the grass green it is a derby match between Ormskirk Castle and  league leaders Ormskirk Phoenix, whilst on the artificial Ormskirk BC take on Dog & Gun ‘A’ . Both matches start at 6.45pm.

It was great to see so many young players from our club representing Ormskirk West Lancs in the Federation Youth and Junior teams. Well done to Chris Farrell, Emma Gill, James Fairlie, Harry & Lily Copeland, Hannah Jones, Lucy Currie and Rylan Irwin. There were some great performances from you all.

All club members should have received an email with details of our range of club sports wear that can now be purchased through Premier Sports in Ormskirk. Try and pop in this week or call/email Premier to place your order so we can get a delivery the following week. Samples can be tried on in the shop if you need to check your size. Check out the polo modelled below by your Hon Sec.

Ladies, please note that polo shirts can be ordered in a ladies fit if that suits you best.

For an opening season round up it is brilliant news to see a three of our teams topping their respective tables.

In the Ormskirk League Premier Division our team leads the way after a good away win to Formby Holy Trinity and the Skem Park Rebels coming a cropper away at Hurlston Hall, although ominously the Rebels have played a game less and are only 4 points behind us.  In Division A the Ormskirk Castle team are sitting in mid table but have only played 3 games and could soon be making the grass green their stronghold.

The Aughton League Division 2 sees three of our teams competing, and the Phoenix have risen to the top after three straight wins, the last a convincing slaughter of the Saracens 9-2 on Wednesday evening at home.  Our Castle team is in mid table and the Ormskirk BC team is languishing second bottom after 4 straight losses.

The Westhead Premier League sees our Ormskirk BC team rock bottom after 2 difficult opening games, but Captain Horse sees this position improving and it is still early days.  There is a better story in Division 2 where the Castle lie second after 2 games played.

The Junior League sees another table topping team, with the Ormskirk Vikings getting off to a good start having won at home on the opening day and then gaining a creditable draw at the Falkland Road stronghold of the Scarisbrick Saracens, with several standout performances including a 21-20 win by Andrew Arnold and a great performance in the pairs by Harry Copeland.

A round up of tables and results can be viewed at http://bowlsnet.uk/OrmskirkBC/!Web.