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Gender Trophy

June 2010 - El Cid BC

Report by Derek Shaw.

Well it was certainly worth the week's wait. Last Friday the forty eight sexually separated El Cid members battled it out, contesting the one hundred and eight ends of the second leg of the Gender Trophy. Although the first leg had yielded a three rink apiece result, the Gentlemen were confident in carrying forward a sixteen shot advantage into this match. However, halfway through the match, the ladies were ahead on every rink. with the Gents performing like an England Soccer team. The stentorian tones of the Captain rang out over the green, politely requesting a tad more effort from the chaps, which resulted in an upping of their game and a short head victory of one single shot overall on the day.

Ladies Captain Sara Hamer attempted to claim victory having had three winning rinks on each leg plus a drawn game, but, rules is rules, so Captain Derek Shaw lifted the trophy at the end of the day despite having had only five winning rinks and a draw, but a greater shot score, over the two legs. Truly a wonderfully close encounter.

And perhaps a lesson to be remembered for our forthcoming second leg of the Friendship Cup against Javea Green next week.  With five out of the six rinks winning in the first leg at home last week, we carry forward a twenty seven shot start on Monday, but we will need to get out of the starting blocks running if we want to maintain our lead to the end.

By the time you have read this the Great and the Good will have visited us this week in search of the €1000 prize money on offer, and our league captains for the forthcoming season may well have had their preliminary meeting to discuss the allocation of Northern and Winter League players. Ee, it's all go , even in the close season !!

El Cid is situated on the Pedreguer to Orba road next to the famous caves. If you have a mind to start, or restart playing Bowls, or maybe just fancy finding out what attracts so many people to take up the sport, come along and see us on any Club morning  (Tuesdays/ Thursdays/ or Sundays). You will always find a welcome at El Cid.
 

Team Captains.

Photo L to R: Sara Hamer & Derek Shaw.