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Bromyard Triples
Challenge Cup
Challenge Cup
This is a club triples competition which was held
for the first time at Bromyard Leisure Centre in
April 1999. Short Mat bowlers from clubs in the
joint association of Herefordshire and Glouces-
tershire were invited to play and 30 teams took
up the challenge.
In the very first 1999 final Fownhope beat
Corse and Staunton in a very close game. This
initial running of the event came at the end of
Mike Conway, Rita Hancock & the era of the joint association of Herefordshire
Terry Darrington (Aston Ingham) and Gloucestershire.
receive the trophy from The increase in the number of short mat
County Secretary Sue Stannard bowling clubs had made it possible for each
county to establish their own associations.
The competition continues as an HSMBA event in the new venue of the Larruperz Centre,
Ross on Wye and has been renamed the County Triples Challenge Cup. Each county club is
invited to enter one team and then, if necessary, numbers are made up to 16 entrants by invit-
ing additional teams from those clubs entering.
The competition was held at the Larruperz Centre in Ross with 16 teams from 10 clubs
competing initially in 4 round robin
groups of 4 teams before the group
winners progressed to the knockout
stage. In the semi-finals the only
previous winning club represented
was Larruperz and they duly pro-
gressed to the final by defeating St
Martin’s in their first foray in the
competition.
The Larruperz team of Lor-
raine Pearce, June Pearce & Tony
Vitale beat St Martin’s Peter Gold-
ing, Kim Wooden & Peter Clark by 9
shots to 5.
The other semi-final saw Aston
Ingham beat Gorsley Chapel in a
tight match, with Mike Conway, Terry
Darrington & Rita Hancock of Aston
Ingham beat Gorsley Chapel’s Dean
Rudman, Les Barlow & Joe Loveys
10 shots to 8.
The final saw the Aston Ing-
ham team of Mike Conway, Terry
Darrington and Rita Hancock over-
whelm the Larruperz team of Lor-
raine Pearce, June Pearce and Tony
Vitale by 18 shots to 2 to add a new
club to the list of winners of this
competition.