With our home match to Leeds called off last week we were on the road again for our WY League match against Mirfield!
It was the first time we got to wear our new team kit and I must say we looked resplendent in the beautiful morning sunshine.
The team spirit that a uniform can muster really rubbed off in the first triples game with Colin, Dad (happy to associate given his performance) and myself taking on Shirley, Harry and Ian.
Thanks in the main to Tony it was a relatively short game and we ran out 13-1 winners. I pointed maybe just better than the average and Colin followed me in nicely finding the length well lots of times but it was down to Dad’s shooting and pointing in that made the score so one sided.
He only missed a single shot all game and added a good few points when Colin and I gave him the opportunity. Well done Dad!
The second game was a much, much closer affair. With the scores even several times early the Mirfield trio of Kevin, Jim and Mark found a good patch and went 11-8 up on our triple of Anita, Alan and Ian.
Anita was pointing well but needed to as Kevin also lead out really well for Mirfield.
Our team worked the next end well with Alan adding a second shot with his last boule to go 11-10. Just a shot behind.
In a game that lasted over an hour and a half our team crafted two single points out of the next two ends, missing a couple of chances to win but going 12-11 in front.
They managed to get the final one they needed, in the next end to finally get over the line for a hard fougt 13-11 win.
On to the doubles and we all made good starts. I didn’t see much of the play as our game finished along with the other longer game but when I looked around each of our teams had gone 7-0 ahead!
Ian and Colin finished their game quickly with a comeback from Shirley and Mirfield Ian looking likely only briefly and we won the game to 6.
Me and Dad conspired to throw away a 7-0 and then 8-1 lead. The game changed in a couple of end where Mirfield shot a boule to take out the coche for a dead end when bang in trouble and then Dad getting unlucky with a shot that got a half ball contact and took out our closest ball.
That said I played poorly in the second half of the game and gave us nothing to get us started and we got what we deserved, a 13-10 loss.
That was a shame because Alan and Anita got the job done in their game against Kevin and Jim and so we denied Hecky another away clean sweep. Like the other games, Mirfield side came back into this one and whilst they never quite got on top they got within 1 or 2 points to give our team a scare. But some good pointing by Anita ultimately proved too much even though the Mirfield team seemed to he shooting well. Alan also shot well when we needed and they won 13-8.
If you put that all together that was a good 4-1 win and some more valuable points towards our improving points difference total.
Lets hope we can keep up the good form at home! Thanks as always to our supporters David, Bev, Karen, Roger F, Alma and Roger J!
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