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Winter Cup 25-26 Final

A close and hard fought contest

The final of the Village Trust Winter Cup was a very close and competitive contest between the pairs Martin Wilson & Len Carlton and Ian Smith & Dave Bevan.
  It was an excellent match of very accurate bowling which, apart from the beginning when Ian & Dave took an early lead, there was never more than one shot in it either way
  That wwinter cup winners 25 26 cas until the penultimate 17th end, where both teams came into it level, but it was Ian & Dave who dealt the deadly blow of taking a four shot lead – leaving Martin & Len unable to recover.
  Indeed a further two shots saw the Winter Cup go to Ian Smith & Dave Bevan 19-13.  wintercupwinners2526c.png

 

 

Inter Club Day starts our competitive year

This year’s annual Inter Club Day tournament saw our club competitive season get underway on
Sunday, April 12, where members took to the rinks in six teams of four representing various
Wraysbury village clubs, to play in a round robin format.

  After the matches, the two top teams were Hilary & Andy Doughton, Howard Brooks and Martyn Hammond (representing the Country and Western Club), and Colin & Val Lambert, Janet Cross and Alastair Gibson  (representing the Short Mat Bowls Club), having both won four out of their five matches. 
  With both these teams having tied on 12pts each, after careful scrutiny it was the Country & Western team who were declared the winners by virtue of their superior shot difference, and so collected their wine prizes to celebrate.

A new friendly opens our match season

Wraysbury BC took on an entirely new challenge with a visit in March to the Hounslow Indoor Bowls Club for a friendly four-rink triples match.
 The Hounslow club has one of the oldest indoor bowls facilities in the country, plenty of car parking, four rinks
with a large seating area and a bar, all run by the members.
  It was a tough challenge and a rude awakening as we lost 100-46.
  We fared better in the next two, with a 80-69 victory at our usual opener away to Chess Vale – a fourth on the trot!  This was followed by
a 51-46 home win against our friends from Staines BC.

The men’s KLV Berkshire season of matches also started with an unusual win at the Royal Household, which has proved a tough place to go.
The 51-41 win and with 2 rinks to 1 gained us valuable 8pt to start the 2026 league campaign.

++ For more details and further coverage through the year, please go to the Match Reports page.

 

Pairs Cup (2025) knockout final

The delayed final of the 2025 Pairs Knockout Cup tournament was eventually played at the end of January, 2026, with Len Carlton & Colin Hood being crowned pairs champions.
  Len & Colin raced into an early lead against Adam Smith & Trevor Woodham and the runners-up
were then on the backfoot and disappointingly could not recover to get a foothold in the game and eventually Len & Colin took the match 21-1.  It was the second Pairs championship cup on the trot for 
our Hoody!
 
 

2026 comes in with a whiteout

AN early January ArcWBC whiteout rink 2026atic blast brought in some snow and icy conditions which meant the rink had to be closed for player safety and rink carpet protection. 
There was some thawing but if icy freezing conditions reappear, members are asked to look out for communications by email or clubhouse notice in case the rink becomes unplayable and has to be closed again. 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Club Awards 2025

The club’s final calendar event, the annual Presentation Dinner took place on Friday, Oct 24, and the winners and finalists of our house competitions collected their trophies and certificates to applause celebrating their achievements.

Trophy winners on parade  .......

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     ** Full details and more pictures can be found on the Presentation Dinners page.