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In the semi-finals John Turner beat Peter
Smart, also representing East Tuddenham,
by 12-8 after a great comeback by Smart
proved to be in vain. Turner led 9-4 with
three ends to play but Smart proved to be a
stubborn opponent scoring a pair of twos to
cut the deficit to 9-8 with an end to play.
Peter Smart had the opportunity to at-
tack and inflict serious damage after Turner
left him a clear target but on the difficult
straight side of the Horsford mat Smart
failed to cut his attacking bowl in enough
and saw it sail through missing its intended
target.
In the other semi-final Chris Mann was
always in control against Woodbastwick’s
ormer Norfolk Premier bowler Peter
Jablonowski as he won by a comfortable 16-2 margin.
The final was played at Horsford BC and with just two ends to go Turner held a slender 5-4
lead in this intriguing final between two of Norfolk’s finest bowlers. John Turner then played to a
maximum length jack on the penultimate end. Chris Mann decided to attempt to ditch the jack and
did so but to his dismay the jack went to the left of the ditch and his bowl went to the right. This
left the players competing to draw to the ditch line and by the time Chris Mann stepped up to play
his last bowl of the end John Turner held three shots.
To Mann’s utter despair his final bowl slipped through between Turner’s woods and into the
ditch leaving Turner still holding three shots and taking an 8-4 lead into the last end. This left Mann
needing a full house of four if he was to force an extra end but against a player of the calibre of
Turner this was a big ask. With both players down to their last bowl Chris Mann held two shots but
John Turner drew in a great wood that ultimately proved fatal to Chris Mann’s hopes.
Mann’s effort to remove two Turner bowls and force an extra end always looked to be a hope-
less cause and so it proved as Turner’s bowl remained in place to give him a 9-4 win in a memo-
rable Bure Singles final. This ensured that John Turner had won the Bure League Singles
Championship title for the sixth
time.
Wymondham close

to perfect day

The Breckland Dennis Moore
Tournament took place at Hing-
ham with Wymondham once
again winning the Dennis Moore
trophy scoring 156 shots in total
over four disciplines of singles,
pairs, triples and fours. Each
Breckland club can enter only one
team in each discipline but disap-
pointingly did not see every club
represented in all of them.