March 2009

Hello everyone

We are now two thirds of the way through this season and this is the second newsletter of the year.  We will try to bring you up to date with tournament results, but the editor has had no assistance with reports from tournaments; if anyone is prepared to email tournament reports to the editor that would be great to hear from someone else!

Two major things are happening within the YBC in the near future the first being the Easter Bowlathon, remember to exchange your £5 for your sponsor form with Angela or Tracy today.  This is our main fundraiser over two seasons and it also gives all the YBC Members an opportunity to take part, support a local children’s charity and the YBC while having fun.  This year’s charity is Shooting Stars Children Hospice, one of our Pee Wee parents ~ Dalton Leong is a Director of this charity and the Committee also thought that children raising money for a childrens’s charity made it more worthwhile.  Alongside this we are running an Easter raffle, PROCEEDS will be added into the Bowlathon money, any donated prizes will be gratefully received.  If you wish to know more about this charity please visit their web site www.shootingstar.org.uk.

 Saturday 11^th April No Young Ones or Pee Wee League bowling

No YBC Bowling or practise

Monday 13^th April      9am ~ midnight Bowlathon Tournament

Bowlers will be advised when they are required to bowl

Saturday 23^rd May  9am Nationals Practise instead of League bowling

Sunday 24^th and Monday 25^th May Junior Nationals Tournament, Nottingham

All monies are due by 18^th April 2009

this season to order any additional or replacement Hoodies .

 We will make sure you have them in time to go to the Junior Nationals in Nottingham in May.
Childrens sizes up to size 14-15 years are just £5

while Adult sizes small to XXL are only £8

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News from the YBC Committee ~ Over a period of time we have been monitoring the support for our social events and have found a decline in these, so we have decided we will not be holding our end of season disco, but the YBC leagues will hold a presentation event for you to receive your trophies for the current season. You must all appreciate that a lot of hard work is put into running any type of social event and when people say they are coming and then don’t, it isn’t very rewarding but rather demoralizing.  So we are looking for new ideas, Bowlers if you have any please take them to Jamie Rosenberg your Junior Captain, parents please approach a Committee Member.

County Round-up

Back in January Surrey ran their County Trials at Purley bowl and a number of our Juniors took part.  Several of our bowlers have made the County squads, well done for taking part and supporting your County.  Here are our bowlers who made the top ten in each age group still unofficial!  A special mention to Rebecca Spiking whose only 11 years old and Hadley Morgan who qualified at the first attempt.

U18 Boys                                            U18 Girls and U16 Girls

Josh Buller                                            Rebecca Desmond

                        Chris Taylor                                          Jenna Buller

                        Hadley Morgan                                     Chloe Ashborn

                        Steven Spiking                                       Naomi Shand

                        George Ackerman                                 Rebecca Spiking

                        Ryan Morgan                                        Jodie Ashborn

U16 Boys                                U14 Boys                                U14 Girls

                        Chris Taylor                              George Ackerman                     Jenna Buller

                        Hadley Morgan                         Ben Rogers                               Rebecca Spiking

                        Steven Spiking                           Jamie Gore                               Jodie Ashborn

                        George Ackerman                     Michael Sullivan

                        Ryan Morgan

More recently the Surrey U18 inter-county rounds were held at Newbury where two of our bowlers achieved personal bests Josh Buller bowled 12 strikes in a row for a perfect game of 300 and sister Jenna bowled her highest game of a 267, this is a marvelous achievement as it wasn’t in our own bowling centre.  Both the Surrey U18 girls and boys team qualified for the finals to be held later this season in Nottingham.

South of England at Dunstable

In January forty bowlers traveled for a very, very early start of 7.30am at Dunstable Bowl to take part in the South of England Open. This tournament was over 9 games, three in each event, Singles, Doubles and 5 man team, we came away with a number of trophies, which was excellent news. 

SINGLES

BANTAM BOYS– SCRATCH 3^rd Place ~ Ben Rogers with a 431 series

INTER BOYS S  – SCRATCH 2^nd Place ~ George Ackerman with a 585 series

INTERMEDIATE GIRLS   – SCRATCH 2^nd Place ~ Jenna Buller with a 535 series

INTER BOYS  – HANDICAP 2^nd Place ~ Christian Greene with 708 total

DOUBLES

BANTAM GIRLS – SCRATCH 2^nd Place ~ Taya Leong & Elle-May Ashton with 560

JUNIOR BOYS – HANDICAP 1^st Place ~ Chiara Davies & Jamie Gore with 1202 total

JUNIOR GIRLS – SCRATCH 1^st Place ~ Rebecca Spiking & Joanna Hackett with 900

INTER BOYS – SCRATCH 2^nd Place ~ Hadley Morgan & George Ackerman with 1120

INTER GIRLS –HANDICAP 3^rd Place Jenna Buller & Jodie Ashborn with 1172 total

SENIOR BOYS – SCRATCH 3^rd Place ~ Chris Taylor & Steven Spiking with 1258

GRADUATE BOYS – SCRATCH 1^st Place ~ Jamie Rosenberg & Josh Buller with 1291

ALL EVENTS SCRATCH

BANTAM BOYS – 2^nd Ben Rogers with 1246 (431, 384 and 431)

JUNIOR GIRLS  - 3^rd Joanna Hackett with 1391 (456, 475 and 460)

INTER GIRLS   –  3^rd Jenna Buller with 1544 (535, 560 and 449)

INTER BOYS   –   1^st George Ackerman with 1705 (585, 579 and 541)

GRADUATE BOYS – 2^nd Place ~ Josh Buller with 2034 (628.744 and 662)

In this tournament a Bowler may only feature ONCE in EITHER Scratch or Handicap Divisions. Scratch takes preference. i.e. Scratch 3rd precedes 1st Handicap; you could not win in both the handicap and scratch sections, so it is fantastic for our All Events winners to all be based on Scratch scores.

Purley Singles ~ was different this year in that the JTE Divisions were bowled in Washington and the BTBA Tour divisions were bowled at Purley so entries were down. Iit was touch and go as to whether the tournament went ahead.

Division 5 Boys average 135 to 169 we had a number of boys taking part unfortunately nobody made the top 10.

Division 6 Girls average 120 to 144 we had two bowlers qualify for the Round Robin Rebecca Desmond in 1^st Place and Chloe Ashborn in 4^th place.  After the Round Robin Chloe Ashborn finished in 1^st Place and Rebecca Desmond in 2^nd place, Well done girls!

Division 7 Boys average 134 and below in 3^rd Place was Ashley Conrad with an 855 series and a high game of 171, he qualified for the Round Robin and finished in 1^st Place, Well Done Ashley.

Division 8 Girls average 119 and below at the end of the 6 games qualifying Chiara Davies finished in 1^st Place to go into the Round robin where she finished in 2^nd Place her ninth game was a 163, some very good bowling and a very improved average too.

Raynes Park Diamond Fours ~ Raynes Park hosted the next Tournament in the BTBA Tour and introduced our bowlers to a new format called the Diamond Fours.  This involved 1 bowler bowling 1 game of Singles, followed by 2 bowlers bowling 1game of Doubles, next came the Trios where 3 bowlers bowled 1 game and then the four man team bowled 3 games, then it went backwards trios, doubles and singles again, pretty confusing          

                                               hey?  Every bowler in the team bowls 6 games.

Tolworth 2 George Ackerman, Rebecca Spiking, Joanna Hackett and Jamie Rosenberg finished in 7^th place with a team total of 3638.  Personally George finished in 9^th place with a 176 average, Rebecca in 26^th with a 128 average, Joanna in 17^th Place with a 140 average and Jamie in 19^th place with 161 average.

Tolworth 3 Rebecca Desmond, Chiara Davies, Jamie Gore and Chris Taylor finished in 12^th place with a team total of 3358.  Personally Rebecca finished in 18^th place with 140 average, Chiara in 25^th place with a 128 average, Jamie in 40^th place with 120.5 average and Chris in 14^th place with 170.5 average.

Tolworth 5 were 13^th just 57 pins behind Tolworth 3. This team consisted of Sam Mitchell, Adrian James, Jodie Ashborn and Naomi Shand.  Naomi finished in 8^th place with a 169 average and Jodie in 14^th Place with a 151 average, Sam finished in 34^th place with a 136 average and Adrian had a 94 average.

For a first time experience we are sure it was good fun.

Next ones up are the JTE Torquay Fours and the BTBA Torquay Trios, Good luck to all our bowlers taking part.  Report pleaseeee!

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