newletter 2012 Please click on this link to see proposed club plans.

Club Officials 2012

President- Ian Pugh

Vice President- Peter
Williams

Chairman- Martin Weetch

Secretary- Mrs Min Evans

Treasurer- Richard Webster

Club Captain- Dennis Thomas

Membership Fees 2012

Full Membership-£75

New Members/Students- £40

Juniors- £5

Please pay Richard
Webster as soon as possible

On behalf of the whole committee, may we wish you a happy 2012, and we hope you are all renewed and refreshed for the new season.

Green
Opening

The official opening of the green, which will be attended by the town Mayor, will be on SATURDAY 21^stAPRIL at 14:15

The green will be open for practice from Monday 16^th April at 10am for social bowls, weather permitting.

Clubhouse
cleaning

A Clubhouse and grounds cleaning list will be up at the green from the 9^th April, any help that can be given to complete the tasks on the list will be greatly
appreciated.

2012
Teams

This season the club will field 2 teams in the Ceredigion men’s league, a team in the ladies league, and one team in each of the Carruthers Shield and Cambrian News Rosebowl.

The captains are:

Aberystwyth- Dennis Thomas

Plas Crug- Chris Nixon

Ladies Team- Janet Davies

As there is only team in this year’s Rosebowl competition , this team will be made up of players of all teams and not exclusively the Aberystwyth team. Please speak to your captain if you are interested in playing. Also there is likely to be a
game between the Aberystwyth and Plas Crug teams on the free date for both
teams on the 2^nd of May, as we look to strengthen the links between the two teams and as a social activity.

Dream
team

As most members have been aware, for a long time it has been the hope of the committee to improve the facilities at Plascrug to help attract new players, attract more players to competitions and for the comfort of existing members. As a club we are pleased to announce that we are soon to be applying for outline planning permission for this extension to our facilities.

The club are hoping to extend the clubhouse into the back, taking
away the existing changing area and having two separate changing areas, with toilets
inside the changing room areas instead of the toilets at the bottom end of the
green. JO Evans explained the whole building plan at the February committee meeting, but this will not come cheap, after the club has received numerous quotes.

It is important now that the clubs raises money through any means necessary!! If anyone has any donations or ideas for fund raising they will be very much appreciated. A new social committee has been brought together,
co-ordinated by Mrs Pam Williams. If anyone has any ideas or would like to join
the committee, please speak to Pam.

Other than this, all that’s left to say
is, we hope all members of Aberystwyth Bowling Club have a good season in 2012!

Important
dates-2012

April

9^th-
Clubhouse and grounds cleaning

16^th-
Green open

21^st-
Official opening

30^th-
Ladies league begins

May

5^th-
Carruthers Shield begins

9^th-
Ceredigion Mens league begins for both teams

June

4^th-
WA Bowen Singles

30^th-
CCBA 2 wood singles

July

1^st-
CCBA 2 wood pairs

7^th-
CBM Rinks

8^th-
CCBA v West Glamorgan

August

4^th-
Corporation Cup

29^th-
CBMC V SWW & Mon

September

9^th-
Club Presidents Day

Handel Morris Men’s
singles. Winner: Rob Morris. R.u. David Davies

Ladies Shield Winner:
Winner: Janet Davies r.u. Min Evans

H J Parry Limited
Entry Singles: Winner: James Edwards r.u. Glyn Jones.

Handicapped Singles: Winner:
Rob Morris r.u. Adam Jenkins

Senior Singles: Winner:
Edwin Wintle r.u. Jennie Ellis

Over 60’s singles: Winner:
Glyn Jones r.u Janet Davies

Endesleigh Two wood
singles. Winner: Adam Jenkins r.u Arwel Jones.

Chris Wall Drawn
Pairs: Winners: Min Evans/Roland Salmon r.u Jo Cash/ Rob Morris.

Centenary Triples:  Winners: Dick Hopkins, Ron Moore, Jennie
Ellis.  r.u. Arwel Jones, Aneurin Venables, James
Edwards

 

W J Richards Pairs and Elwyn Williams Rinks not played due
to lack of entries.

Over the weekend of 30-31st July Aberystwyth Bowling Club held the Annual Corporation Cup. The sponsorship provided by Aberystwyth Town Council, Dolphin Fish Restaurant, Davies, Heulyn, Davies and Clive’s Menswear drew competitors’ from as far afield as Newtown, Builth Wells, Cambridgeshire and Bristol. Sadly some of the regular entrants could not play because of health problems. In the first round games there were some epic battles as well as some resounding victories. Previous winner James Barker won 21 -13 over Rob Smith. Hilary Owen of Newtown and Morfydd Rees of Lampeter had along game Hilary being the eventual victor. She followed this victory up by beating David James 21-18 and Bert Jones 21-15 to get to the Semi final. Richard Huws had a marathon match against Glyn Jones eventually winning 21-18 but sadly met his fate being well beaten by Gwynant Ellis who also had an easy victory over Min Evans in the previous round. Lindsay Collin of Page Ladies had an epic game against Brian Davies with Lindsay being in the lead throughout until the 24^th end when the score was 20-20. Brian managed to get the required shot on the next end to win. The four players from Builth Wells each succumbed to local bowlers but gave credible performances especially as they are new bowlers. Last year’s runner up Janet Davies won narrowly over Jamie James and beat Janice Petche in the quarter finals. Meanwhile Ian Pugh beat James Barker to set up quarter final match against club mate Gwynant Ellis which was eagerly anticipated by the spectators but it turned out to be a fairly straight forward victory 21-10 to Gwynant. In the semi final Hilary Owen did not produce the form of the previous day losing by 21-8 to Gwynant Ellis. The other semi final saw Brian Davies performing his second come back of the competition this time against Janet Davies. Janet led all the way to the 23^rd end when the score was levelled at 19 all. Then Janet went 20-19 up, Brain levelled at 20-20 and held his nerve to score one to take him into the final against Gwynant Ellis. Whist the finalists had a break the Builth players Ken Francis and Steve Jones kept the supporters entertained with an “exhibition” match.  In the final marked by last year’s winner David James Brian Davies shot off to a 14 nil lead scoring three 4’s and a 2. Gwynant never really recovered from this but did pull back to within three shots but Brian was the victor 21-13.

The spectacular Corporation Cup and prizes were presented by the Mayor, Richard Boudier, who participated in the good humour and enjoyment of the event