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4 EAST HANNINGFIELD NEWS

MARGARET CAIRNS
MARGARET CAIRNS
TRIPLES
TRIPLES
This year’s annual Margaret Cairns
Triples was contested by 20 teams with
the action starting at 8.30am, after the
majority of the player’s had breakfast of
Bacon rolls.
The order of play for the day was
four groups of five teams each, with
each team playing each other in their re-
Winners Pat Goodchild,
Tony Ealham & Andrea Phillbrick spective groups over either 8 end or 35
minutes, whichever came first with the
top two teams going through to the quarter finals.
The Three Degrees started off with a 10-3 win & there were also wins for O.C.B.C 1 & Is-
land 1 with Friends of Essex 2 & Stonyhill 1 drawing 8 each. In the next round of games each
game was close with only a couple of shots difference on each mat. But that was to change in
the next round of games as EH Horseshoes won 12-2 & 3G 15-1.
After everyone had been fed by the kitchen staff with a Ploughman’s lunch it was back to
the bowling, after everyone had played there four round robin games the qualifiers for the quar-
ter finals were as follows:
Top two in group A: EH Horseshoes &
EH Windmills both with 6pts, Group B: Island1
& Woodlands both with 6pts, Group C: 3G with
7pts & Stonyhill 2 with 5pts. Group D Stonyhill
1 on 7pts & Hollingbourne with 4pts.
In the Quarter finals Stonyhill 2 raced
into a 6-2 lead against EH Horseshoes but
dropped 5 shots on the last three ends to go
down 6 -7, Hollingbourne beat Island 1 7-5 in
a close encounter, 3G lead all the way against
EH Windmills to go through 9 -3 & in the last
quarter final Stonyhill 1 beat Woodlands in a
very tight game 4 – 3.
The two semi finals were both one sided Runners-up Tony Channer,
affairs with Stonyhill 1 beating EH Horseshoes Shiela Wickes & Tony Drew.
14 -2 & taking a 5 on the 3rd end, In the other
semi Hollingbourne beat 3G 17-8 despite dropping a 6 on one end.
So the final was between Stonyhill 1 ( Andrea Phillbrick, Pat Goodchild & Tony Ealham )
against Hollingbourne (Tony Channer, Sheila Wicks & Tony Drew). With Stonyhill winning by
12 shots to six.
A well deserved victory for the winners who did not lose a game all day. A big thank you
goes to Tony Ealham & Tony Hayes who did the umpiring for the day when they were not play-
ing & all the kitchen staff (Lesley Fautley, Debbie Cairns & Peter Fautley).
There was also during the day a minutes silence in memory of Rita Blackhall who had re-
cently passed away, who was a regular participant in East Hanningfield’s competitions.