Spalding Indoor Bowls Club round-up

Four young stars from Spalding Indoor Bowls Club were part of the Lincolnshire side which played in a junior county friendly against Leicestershire.

Max Butters, Jessica Butters, Aidan Brickles and Nathan Puttrell helped Lincolnshire to an 83-53 victory in the match hosted by Nottingham Indoor Bowls Club.

Nathan and Jessica were part of a rink that won 24-10 while Max and Aidan helped their section to a 29-10 success to show that the future of the sport is in good hands.

Spalding Lightning crashed out of the Egham Trophy after defeat against Lincoln on Sunday.

The early exchanges were close but Lincoln dominated the second half of the match as they won 56-81.

Rink scores: Home - Kevin Ekins, Julie Hicks, Annie Dunham and Martin Spencer drew 16-16, Danielle Wild, Tracy Philpott, Graham Smith and Jordan Philpott lost 18-20; Away - Jean Patterson, Simon Lilley, Chelsea Spencer and Dominic McVittie lost 12-19, Ruby Hill, Louise Harris, Stephen Harris and Mathew Orrey lost 10-26.

Spalding were beaten by Stamford A in the men's county league on Saturday.

Stamford won by 11 shots (63-74) and on three out of the four rinks which saw a 2-12 match result in the away team's favour.

Rink scores: Nick Wilkie, Robin Roffe, Graham Hicks and Kevin Ekins won 21-13; Mick Dolton, Ian Stafford, James Teesdale and Dan Mills lost 16-21; Tony Westland, Aidan Brickles, David Nunney and Stephen Harris lost 14-21; Eric Wakefield, Max Butters, Anthony Cronin and Brian Martin lost 12-19.

Spalding's ladies also suffered a defeat when they travelled to Stamford for their next fixture in the Trudy Bates County League.

Spalding were always chasing and, although the visitors went ahead briefly at 15 ends albeit only by a single shot, Stamford finished the stronger of the two teams as they won the overall aggregate by 11 shots (76-87).

Although Spalding won on three out of four rinks, they were unable to secure the all-important aggregate points which resulted in a match score of 8-6 to Stamford.

Spalding’s top winning rink was skipped by Betty Deaton, with Ann Newbury, Michelle Billingsley and Petrine Ault who won 22-15. The next Trudy Bates fixture will be at home against Sleaford on Thursday, January 9.

Rink scores: Ann Newbury, Michelle Billingsley, Petrine Ault and Betty Deaton won 22-15; Sheila Chamberlain, Carole Nunney, Mandy Parkins and Julie Hicks won 22-16; Jan Sinclair, Anita Phillips, Carly Morris and Maisie Belding won 26-21; Jean Patterson, Chris Jackson, Sue Slayven and Maggie Wheatley lost 6-35.