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Cumbria Cup success for Neil Adams

7 June 2025 by Chris Alvey Leave a Comment

Neil continues his hot run of success surely national representative honours should come soon.

Reduced for 2025 to a One Day knockout for 8 players, the always well supported Cumbria Cup field was very strong and all games keenly contested. Round 1 saw Andrew Winn (Bowdon) beat Steve Skelton (Keswick), Lee Hartley (Fylde) beat Mike Sandler (Bowdon), David MaGee (Ben Rhydding) beat Dennis Scarr (Middlesbrough) and Neil Adams (Crake Valley) punish John Henderson (Penrith) 26tp-0.

Semi final results Andrew beat Lee 26-1 and Neil demolished David Magee 26-0. The final, as ever, could go either way but Neil was too strong and won 26-5.

After the final, the Crake Chair, Graham Jowett presented Neil with the small but valuable Cumbria Cup. An additional presentation, for being the highest placed NW player in the recent Bowdon Advanced weekend, meant he also receives the much larger Neil Williams NWFed Millennium Trophy.

The photos show Neil receiving both trophies and general play at the lovely Crake setting

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Crake Valley progress in GC Federations Shield

1 June 2025 by Chris Alvey Leave a Comment

Crake Valley welcomed Yorkshire’s representatives, Ripon Spa, in the CqE National GC Federation Shield recently.

The visitors fielded a strong side in Michael Franklin (Handicap 4), Sue I’Anson (5), Marcia Henderson (6) and Robert Mumford (6).  Crake relied on players who were instrumental in achieving top spot in the NW Fed (North) League in 2024. John Bowes (7), Karen Bowes (8), Brenda Knight (10) and Elaine Davies (12) took on the challenge of two rounds “best of free” advantage scoring format.

In the morning John and Elaine overcame Sue and Robert 6-7, 7-1, 7-5. Brenda beat Michael 7-3,2-7, 7-6 and Karen coming from behind to beat Marcia 6-7, 7-4, 7-3.

3-0 at lunch with four singles to be played and so the comeback commenced. First to finish was Elaine losing to Robert 5-7, 5-7. Brenda also lost in two to Marcia 6-7, 4-7.  Fortunately both John and Karen were in control in their matches both winning in two games to secure the win Crake Valley 5 – Ripon Spa 2.

A long trip awaits in the next round (semi-finals) depending on who triumphs between Colchester and Woodhall Spa (who are due to play on 13th June).

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The  Longman Cup 

30 May 2025 by Chris Alvey Leave a Comment

Bowdon CC vs Pendle and Craven CC

The day started out unpromising with drizzle but was forecast to improve as it did with the weather turning hot and dry by the afternoon making the lawns speed up noticeably.

The Pendle and Craven team consisted of Paul Dowdall(7), Catherine Parnell(8), Andrew Gould(10) and Mark Kerr(12) with Mark, Andrew and Paul travelling to Bowdon together whilst Catherine travelled on her own from Bury

The Bowdon team were Andrew Thomson(4), Lorna Frost(11), John Bagnall(16) and Mike Blackburn(18).

The morning matches went well with Paul & Mark playing against Andrew & Lorna winning +1 on time. The others also won, Andrew beating Mike +9 and Catherine beating John +5 on time. This left the team three nil up at lunch with only one win needed to secure the win.

The afternoon matches were all singles and all went our way:

Paul beat Andrew +12
Catherine beat Lorna +12T
Andrew beat John +3T
Mark beat Mike +1T

This gave us a seemingly convincing 7-0 win but most of the games were very close and could easily have gone the other way.

Thanks to all the team, as well as to Libby Dixon, our non-playing captain.

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