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However, the competition went ahead and as usual was highly competitive and extremely
close, with the last session deciding the final placing. Up to that stage, three areas were 25
still in contention but it was Chelmsford West who came out on top. Well done to Colin
Day and his Chelmsford West team
The final placing were:-
1st Chelmsford West with 21 points
2nd North West with 19 points
3rd Colchester West with 18 points
4th Colchester East with 14 points

Thanks go to all who played, who helped with the setting up and putting away of equipment and
obtained the prize medals for the competition. A Special thanks go to Anthea Bushe who ran
the raffle on the day and to Duncan Lumley (Essex Tournament Secretary) who set up and ran
the competition with his team of helpers
Norfolk County Triples
Norfolk County Triples
Norfolk County Triples competition was held at Wortwell, with 20 teams
taking part and were divided in to 4 groups of 5 each playing each other,
with the group winners and the runners up going through to make up the
last 8.
Reepham Vs Occold, Kenninghall Vs Needham, Sea Palling Vs
Brockdish, Tacolneston Vs Syleham. Reepham beating Occold (10-4) going on to play Kenning-
hall who overcame Needham (7-4). Sea Palling narrowly beating Brockdish (5-4) were to play
Syleham who overcame Tacolneston (8-5)
The Semi-finals saw Reepham beat Kenninghall and Sea Palling beat Syleham after a
very close battle. This set up a Final Between Sea Palling (Rachel, Mick, John) Vs Reepham
(Doris, Matt, Stephen). Sea Palling started off strong with Rachel leading well and Mick manag-
ing to fill in gaps before Matt could bowl. This was the same throughout the game with Sea
Palling just building on the lead from the first End. With Reepham not even getting a look in end
after end. Sea Palling had won the game with an end to spare. (11-2)
Suffolk Charity Fours

There was a very full house for this year's Charity Fours to raise money
for Dementia Together. 45 teams were competing on the 9 carpets
squeezed into the hall. As usual there isn't enough time for a knockout
stage so the winners would be the team on top after they had played their
4 games. In Round 1, 22 teams won their first game with Felixstowe URC
B and Barrow A leading the way on 13 shots, followed by Claydon B, Reep-
ham Robins B and Fulborn, all just 1 shot back.
In Round 2, 14 teams made it through their second game without dropping a point. Claydon
B were now in the lead on 25 shots, Fulborn were on 24, Chelmondiston A had 22, Claydon A
had 21 and Knodishall A and Birch Teys had 20.
Round 3 - with 3 games played there were still 10 teams in the running on maximum points.
Fulborn had now just edged ahead, on 35 shots, Claydon B were 2 behind, Chelmondiston A
were on 30 and East Bergholt B and Claydon A had 29. I Round 4, several of those leaders fell
by the wayside in their final’s games, Claydon B were held to a draw, while Chelmondiston A
and East Bergholt B lost, as did Burstall A and Hundon B who had also won their first 3 games.
That left 5 teams on maximum points.
5th place went to Barking/Kelsale who finished on 27 shots, Badwell Ash were on 31 which
was only good enough for 4th and 3rd were Birch Teys on 38 shots. It looked as if Fulborn were
going to take victory, but 42 shots was not good enough as Claydon A roared to a 17-0 win in
their final game to finish on 46 shots, leaping up from 5th place to take the overall win.
Most importantly of all though we would like to thank everyone involved for helping us to
raise an amazing £1,400 for a very worthy cause. We hope to see you all again next year.