Fylde 7 Westmorland 0

Fylde: Liz Wilson (2), Terry Vernazza (7), Martin Bradshaw (8), Ken Harper (14).
Westmorland: John Shakespeare (10), Ivan Wheatley (12), Jim Allcock (16), David MacInnes (20).

This was Fylde's first midweek game of the season and the sun was out, helping the lawns to finally dry out after the weekend deluge. In the singles, Ken was playing Jim Allcock. Although Jim had a lot of lawn time as he used his bisques, Ken kept in touch and slowly pulled in front. he eventually pegged out to win +9 well within time. Martin was slow to get into his rhythm and his opponent Ivan Wheatley started to pull ahead. However, Martin responded and eventually put a good final break together to overhaul Ivan and win +3. Liz and Terry were giving a lot of bisques away in the doubles and played defensively to start. John Shakespeare took his ball round to penult and tried to help David to make progress. Terry hit in for the home team and took his ball round in two breaks. Liz then put together a good break to enable Fylde to win +11. Lunch in the sun followed with an excellent plum crumble to set the players up for the afternoon games.

Terry was in excellent form, taking both his balls round in single breaks. He eventually pegged out to win +15. Ken had a similar game to his morning match, keeping in touch while his opponent, David MacInnes, used his bisques. Ken then surged ahead to win +14. John Shakespeare with 8 bisques built up a commanding lead against Liz and with a ½ hour to go was on peg with both balls whilst Liz was on rover and 2! John pegged out one of his balls but Liz kept calm and clawed it back pegging out to win the game. Martin and Jim were also having a close game and with 15 minutes to go were only separated by two hoops. The innings changed hands several times before Martin pulled ahead to win +7.

Liz Wilson and Terry Vernazza beat John Shakespeare and David MacInnes +11.
Martin Bradshaw beat Ivan Wheatley +3.
Ken Harper beat Jim Allcock +9.
Liz Wilson beat John Shakespeare + 1.
Terry Vernazza beat Ivan Wheatley +15.
Martin Bradshaw beat Jim Allcock +7.
Ken Harper beat David MacInnes +14.

Posted by Terry, 3rd May