European Bowls championships 2022
Pairs and Triples Finals -Results-
Finally, the tournament got down to the business end of the tournament – The Finals
The quality of bowling, the sportsmanship and skill on show were not going to disappoint.
The spectators were not dissappointed
Pairs
Women
In the womens pairs –
Ireland (Sarah Kelly & Shauna O’Neil) played against England (Emma Cooper and Stef Branfield).
If we were to have known how this game was going to play out we would have warned the supporters of a nervous disposition of the danger to their nails.
Ireland got off to relative flyer going 6-1 shots after 5 ends. England fought back to level it at 6-6 in end 8.
Ireland stepped up another gear and took the lead the next end and stayed ahead of their opponents, building up a 15-9 lead by the 16th end.
With only 2 ends left a lot of spectators thought that the game was finished. However the English team hadn’t thrown the towel in and in the 17th end scored 5 shots to bring them to within one shot of Ireland going into the last end. Could they complete the comeback at the end? Well, yes and no. They didn’t manage to get the two shots for the win, but did manage to get the 1 shot to take the match to an extra end.
Going into the extra end, the nail-biters in the crowd had no nails left. How was this marvelous game going to go?
In the end it was England who managed to score a shot in the extra end and take the win.
England – Winners.
Men
In the mens pairs –
England (Tom McGuiness & Edward Morris) played against Guernsey (Matt Solway and Todd Priaulx). This match did not disappoint those watching, with a lot of great bowls being played.
England got off to a flyer scoring 3 shots in the first end. Guernsey then cam back with a 1 and then a 3 in the next two ends,taking them to a 4-3 shot lead, only to see England hit back, scoring 10 shots over the next 6 end to go into 13-6 lead in end in the 9th end.
With the England pair looking very confident,Guernsey knew they had to steady the ship. in the 10th end they didn’t just manage to steady the ship, but managed to hit back with a 4 and a 1, in the following 2 ends, which brought them back into the game at 13-11.
Thereafter, till the end of the match England never lost the lead again running out 19-17 winners.
England Winners.
Triples
Women
Ireland (Ashleigh Rainey, Lara Reaney, and Chloe Wilson) played against England (Ruby Hill, Laura Holden, and Lorraine Kuhler). England scored four shots in the first three ends, and Ireland scored two in the next two to make it 4-2 for England in the fifth end.
The match then see-sawed between each team, when in the 13th end England were 9-7 to the good. The following two ends were to prove pivotal, however, with Ireland scoring 4 shots, and then 2 shots to take the lead 13-9, by the 15th end.
England fought back in the 16th scoring 2 shots, to cut the lead to just 2 shots, but unfortunately for them, Ireland immediately hit back with 2 shots of their own in the 17th end, restoring their 4 shot lead, going into the last end.
England gave it a good go in the last end to at least get the 4 shots shots the required to take the game to an extra end. Unfortunately, they only managed to get two shots, giving the Irish team the win by 15 -13
Ireland – Winners.
Men
Scotland (Blair Davidson, Mark O’Hagan & Connor Milne) played against Ireland (Aaron Tennant, Gary Kelly and Mark Wilson). Ireland took the first 3 ends scoring 1 shot in each, before Scotland hit back with a 3 and a 1 in the next two ends to go into a 4-3 lead in the 5th end.
The following 5 ends saw Ireland take the game by the scruff of the neck, scoring in 4 of the 5 ends, with 9 shots to Scotland solitary 1 end, scoring 3 shots. Therefore, Ireland went into a 12-7 lead in the 10th end.
Scotland fired back at Ireland in the following 3 ends to bring them within 2 shots of Ireland, making it 13-11 for Ireland, in the 13th end.
The next two ends saw both teams score 1 shot each making it 14-12 to Ireland.
In boxing terms, both teams were throwing a lot of jabs at each other, but the knockout punches were then landed in the 16th and 17th end, scoring a 2 and then a 3 to make it 19-12 to Ireland.
Very sportingly, needing a 7 in the last end, Scotland conceded the game and congratulated Ireland on winning.
In the next 4 ends, both teams scored in alternate ends with Ireland take a 9-8 lead.
Like the ladies triples final however, Ireland scored 3 shots at a vital point of the game in the
Ireland – Winners
