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NGL  Website        12/5. Our men's league team went down to a heavy defeat against a strong Cheltenham team by 11-2 on points and 106-87 on shots. Craig Gutries rink won heavily but all the others lost (2 of them very heavily) So lots of work to do. 5/5/22. Played Whaddon at home and lost on 3 rinks but won heavily on 2 rinks. We won 103- 97 overall. 7 points to Tewkesbury and 6 points to Whaddon. Off to a winning start.

Ladies League table and  results.  http://www.bowlsnews.co.uk/glosladies.html The Ladies B team recovered from last week's defeat by beating Coleford by 6-2.pts. Rink 2. Lorna Archer,  Carole Glass, Wendy Campbell and Gill Johnson had a struggle with the length but still managed to share the number of ends won and were only 3 shots down at the 15th end but then dropped a five and although they won the final 2 ends by 3 shots, lost by 18-13. Rink 3. Alison Marriner, Angela Slim, Jan Mundy and Pat Bearhad a close encounter up to the 10th end but always kept ahead, but a three at the 11th end and a 6 at the 14th end gave us a good gap of 11 shots and we eventually won by 20-13. Tewkesbury 33-31 Coleford.   Phew, close but a win is very welcome. The Ladies played Cheltenham Spa in the Top Club competition away this afternoon and came away with a convincing victory.  In the singles Marion Haynes won easily by 21 -10 after 17 ends. She won 11 of the ends and was never put under any press

The men's B team played a two rink knockout match against Page Park from Bristol this evening. We were represented on rink four by Tom Cevantes, Rob Arthur, John Glass and Stewart Minchew who ran out easy winners.  On rink 5 we had Robin Burnell, Roger Hughes, Brian Haines and Paul Keicher who also won comfortably. A good solid all round performance. We are now away to the winners of Pineholt and Alveston I believe. Well done lads.

We went to Bredon for a six rinks triples match and lost heavily on 3 of them and lost overall. Rink 1. Lorna Archer, Richard Hill and Hugh Mundy were never behind and although the number of winning ends were close 10-8 : we ran out 21-10 winners.  Rink 2. Mike Palmer, Kelvin Bear  and John Lawson had a dismal afternoon losing 9-32 winning 7 of the 18 ends.  Rink 3. Carole Glass, Tom Cevantes and Brian Haines didn't fare much better and were 24-2 down after 16 ends eventually losing 24-5. We won only 4 of the 18 ends. Rink 4. Alex Fleming. Angela Slim and Rob Pearson  scorecard was missing but I was told we won by I shot. Rink 5. Wendy Campbell, Richard Lee and Rowena Capper had a steady game and even picked up 7 shots on the 13th end eventually winning by 24-15 and 11 of the 18 ends. Rink 6. Suzanne Payne, Tony Slim and John Glass got stuck on 5 shots for 7 ends and then on 10 shots for 5 ends to finally lose 27-11. We won on 7 of the 18 ends.

Our A team played Fairford B at home and drew on both rinks. The clubs  B team went to Lydney and won on one rink and lost on the other but won overall by 37-33. Rink: John Lawson, Brian Haines and Paul Keicher began well but Lydney kept in touch and by the 10th end  we were only one shot ahead.We only won on 4 of the remaining 11 ends including a 4 on the 13th end but lost 17-20. We won on 9 of the 21 ends. Rink: Tom Cevantes, Hugh Munday, John Glass and Stewart Minchew  had a terrible start and by the 8th end were 8 shots behind at 1-9. However we won the next 7 ends to go 13-9 in front and then picked up a further 8 shots over the final 5 ends to run out 21-13 winners. We won 12 of the 21 ends.

2 rink winners  Winners of Cheltenham Commerce Cup. Our first Club Colours. Winners of County Cup 2012. I Visit by E.B.A on our 175th year Celebration  Floods of 2007 Frank presenting NGL Charity cheque to Rod Trower Tewkesbury B.C. Chairman Frank presenting NGL TROPHY to Dave  Minchew Tewkesbury Captain. Some of the players who helped Tewkesbury win the League in 2021. Janet with the Ladies Festival Trophy. 2021. Rob Arthur receives his full county badge from  the Glos. County President. Mr Gareth Tarplee. 10/9/21 Gill Johnson and Stewart Minchew Winners of the county Ken Griffin  Mixed pairs trophy 2021. Sues lot who won the Friday night triples league 2021. Jan Bradshaw, Lorraine Berry, Roger Hughes, Jackie Hughes and Sue Yates.  Captain Dave Minchew receiving the 2019 NGL Shield . Tewkesbury B.C. 2019 winners of the NGL Shield 2019 Leamington seniors Gloucestershire  Representatives Dave Boulton and Paul Keicher  Ladies pairs winners.