Cookies

We use essential cookies to make our site work. We'd also like to set analytics cookies that help us make improvements by measuring how you use the site. These will be set only if you accept.

For more detailed information about the cookies we use, see our cookies page.

Essential Cookies

Essential cookies enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. For example, the selections you make here about which cookies to accept are stored in a cookie.

You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions.

Analytics Cookies

We'd like to set Google Analytics cookies to help us improve our website by collecting and reporting information on how you use it. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify you.

Third Party Cookies

Third party cookies are ones planted by other websites while using this site. This may occur (for example) where a Twitter or Facebook feed is embedded with a page. Selecting to turn these off will hide such content.

Skip to main content

WFML Knockout Cup 2018

WESSEX MIXED FRIENDLY LEAGUE KNOCKOUT CUP 2018

Somerton & District Bowls Club won the Wessex Mixed Friendly League Knockout Cup this year.
The final against Shepton Mallett was played at a neutral ground (Gillingham Bowls Club) on Sunday, September 7th. 
 Somerton won on all four rinks with scores and player lists shown below.

Rink 1 L Smalldon, C Wilcox, W Scott, D Forsyth    19 shots to 15
Rink 2 P King, A Kelley, I Badman, D Sutton.           22 shots to 19
Rink 3 P Catlin, P Gray, R Kelley, M Sutton.             19 shots to 16
Rink 4 K Sully, R Smith, A Hoad, R Porter.               30 shots to 11
The match was played in a good and friendly atmosphere followed by a lovely two-course supper provided by the Gillingham Bowls Club.

Somerton have won the cup on two previous occasions way back in 1993 and 1996, making this our first win for twenty two years. We  have been runner up five times 1994, 1998, 2003, 2004 and 2007. It is therefore a notable feat to achieve this convincing victory after such a long time.

SOMERTON & DISTRICT BOWLS CLUB WFML Knockout Cup 2018
Winning Team Winning Team