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The Downton ladies and Gentlemen bowlers should be proud of themselves this season ; 1. We won the league. 2. We were runners up in the Harold Ford knockout competition. 3. We came third out of nineteen triple teams on Gala Day. Well Done Downton. Steve Allen Chairman Mixed Triples League Sent from my iPad

Hi Downton Bowls Players

Our return friendly match with Sherfield English will take place on Thursday 5th September starting at 2.30pm.  We will require six mixed triples teams and those members who cannot manage 18 ends will be able to share a game doing nine ends each. We will be providing afternoon tea after the match with sandwiches, cakes , tea and also a raffle. Therefore every player will be given a choice of either providing a cake ( shop bought or home made) making some sandwiches or providing a raffle prizes.

The raffle prizes can be inexpensive such as half dozen eggs, bag of oranges or apples, packet of biscuits, cans of lager or bottle of beer.

There will be no match fee as the profits from the raffle should cover this cost.

If you would like to play please reply to this email and state whether you would like to provide sandwiches, a cake cut into 8 slices or two small inexpensive raffle prizes .

Kind regards

Steve Allen

The final as held at Salisbury Bowl club on Friday 23 rd August at 11.15am.

The weather was ideal being neither too hot nor too cold. The wind died down over the day and the sky was cloudless. The two clubs in the final were Downton and Mere.

The game was good with some very close ends and the green consistent and running at a good pace. After 18 ends each, Mere ran out the winners with a total of 38 shots to Downton’s 23. The trophy was presented to the Winners by Joan Ford, Harold’s widow, who was delighted to be asked to do the honours .

The members of the two squads were

On Wednesday 24th July Downton played Amesbury at home in the Westbrook Mixed Triples League .Dawn, Paul Tanner and David Fretwell were up against Amesbury best players particularly Ali Noyes who is a County player. The opposition won the first seven ends and were leading by eight shots before Downton started there comeback. The managed to win three ends by 3 shots and ended winning the rink by 18 shots to 15 shots. Marg , Rod and Lewis on the eleventh end were winning by just one shot (13 to12) before breaking away to win by a comfortable 27 to 16 shots. Gordon, Ann and Steve were in front throughput their match and won by 23 shots to 11 shots. Downton achieved all eight points and are now second in the league with a game in hand. Steve Allen MTL Captain Sent from my iPad

Congratulations we are in the final. Downton mixed triples played Amesbury home and away on Wednesday evening in the Harold Ford Knockout Competition. We won on the away green at Amesbury and drew on Downton Green therefore we won the match. We are now in the final and will meet either Amesbury or Mere Bowls Club . The home team was Steve Allen , Dawn Allen and Colin Morris. The away team was Marie Clarke, Lewis Ambler and Alan Waters.

 Match Report Downton for the first time in 38 years have won the Westbrook Mixed Triples League.The final match of the season took place at Downton Green on Wednesday afternoon 13th September 2023 against Amesbury Bowls Club. Downton needed to win on just one rink to secure victory.Amesbury fielded a very strong side as by winning this match they would be runners up in the league. Downton strongest rink comprised of Marie Clark, John James and Alan Waters had a comfortable win with 20 shots to 9 shots.Amesbury Captain Ali Noyes(also their Champion of Champions)and team fielded their best players against Marg Hall, Steve Allen and Nick Purkis and won very convincingly by 26 shots to 9 shots. The match now depended on the result on the 3rd rink .Ivan, Lynda and Colin made a great start and after nine ends were winning 11 shots to 1. But then Amesbury came back winning the next 5 ends. It all depended on the final end as to who would win this match. Luckily for us Colin and his team made four shots on the last end. This meant that we won the match by one shot and had 6 points to Amesbury 2. This result meant that Amesbury were unable to overtake Wilton currently in 2nd place and ended up in 3rd place in the league. My thanks go out not only to those who played in this match but also everyone else who played for the MTL especially Rod Hall, Dawn Allen and Simon and Marion Stacey and Jane Smith. Steve Allen
MTL Captain
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Match Report Saturday 2nd September 2023 This is the last match of the B&D morning open triples league.It was against Fordingbridge Fire at Fordingbridge. The weather was fine and sunny. As Dawn Allen was still recovering from her operation and Neil was unable to play we called upon our reserve players again Nick Purkis and John James to take their place.The teams were; Team 1. Steve Allen, Colin Morris and Nick Purkis Team 2. John James, Cathy Burrows and Charles Burrows. Team 1 won the first end and managed to stay in front throughout the game but it was pretty close at times and by winning the last end we won the rink 13 shots to 9 shots. Team 2 . They had a close match for the first five ends but on the sixth end they got five shots and after that they romped home winning by a massive score of 37 shots to 13 shots. This win meant the Downton Dragons are now top of league in Division 5A and are eligible for promotion to Division 4. I would like to congratulate the team for their hard work throughout the season in achieving the success that they richly deserve. Steve Allen Downton Dragons Captain
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Match Report Today we were playing at home .The team selection was as follows; Team1. Steve , Lynda and Dawn Team 2. Neil , Cathy and Colin. Team 1 got off to a bad start and by the fifth end they were 11 shots to 1 shot down. However they managed to claw their way back up and eventually won the rink by 24 shots to 15 shots. Team 2 were in the lead from the beginning and had a comfortable win of 24 shots to 7 shots. We won the match with all six points and are still third in the league. Steve Allen Downton Dragons Captain
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Match Report 5th August 2023 Today’s match at Swanage has been cancelled due to bad weather on the coast. As we were unable to agree a date for a return match we therefore agreed to share the points. Our next match is at home against the Swanage Seagulls in Saturday 12 August at 10am. Steve Allen Downton Dragons Captain
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