Frankly Speaking, Wednesday 21/8/19
The nights are drawing in and the leaves beginning to fall as the season nears its end and, in the words of Sir Alex Ferguson, it is squeaky bum time. All Bray's men's teams saw action in the week just ended. Division 4 took 5 points at home to Westmanstown last Monday night and Division 5 brought home 1 point from CYM which is always a tough venue. Thursday saw all 3 Vets teams take to the rink with Vets 1 suffering a heavy defeat away to Westmanstown. They are still clinging on to second place with 2 games to go. Vets 2 defeated the leaders, Herbert Park, 4/0 at home to bring themselves right back into the frame again with 2 games to go. Vets 3 defeated Greenhills at home and now only need 1 point from their last 2 games to guarantee second place. On Saturday our Division 1 team travelled to Dun Laoghaire and suffered a resounding defeat. On the same day Division 2 took a much needed 6 points at home to Ierne. All teams are in action this week with the ladies away in Kenilworth today (Wednesday). Thursday has Vets 1 at home to CYM, Vets 2 away in Skerries and Vets 3 away in Aer Lingus. On Saturday next Division 1 are at home to Railway Union and Division 2 make the long trek to Westmanstown where some points would be very nice. Also on Saturday Division 5 finish their season with a trip to Kilcock to face North Kildare. Come on lads, lets do the business and bring some much needed cheer to the club.
Next Sunday at 2.30pm sees Bray host the Open Cup final between CYM and Dun Laoghaire. So if you want to see some top class bowling feel free to drop down. We must also offer our congrats to CYM on reaching the IBA Senior Cup Final. They are the first team from the BLI to do so in many a long day. They face Belmont from Belfast in the final on 31st August. Also congrats to Margaret Smyth and Valerie Doherty from our neighbours, Greystones, on winning the Junior Pairs Championship in the recent LBLI Championship Finals and also congrats to Rosemarie Brown from Dun Laoghaire BC on winning 3 titles at the same championships. Back to fixtures now and Division 4 conclude their year next Monday at home to Greystones. Dick Fowler was this week's lotto winner.
Your Reporter: Frank Devlin (hon sec).
