Liberty Semi Final Woe
It was heartache for the Liberty Trophy lads as they lost a classic against Norfolk by two shots.
Again the lads got off to a slow start as they trailed by 12 at the 5 end mark.
It peaked at one point to 29 but by the 10 end mark the deficit was still 23.
Then came the infamous Durham charge as they rattled off a 38-15 return to level the game off after 15 ends.
The 15-18 end split saw Norfolk edge a shot ahead but then the lads kicked on and led for the first time 107-102 but couldn’t see it out.
With three rinks left on and two on their final ends we dropped three shots to trail by one. The final rink left on was Bryan Henderson, after missing with a draw and the head not great it was a hit and hope which sadly never came off.
So that was that, one thing that cannot be questioned is the character of the team to fight back but the slow start again came back to haunt the lads.
Across the green, Hartlepool’s Gary R Smith had a tough start and were at one stage 21-1 down, fair play to the lads they stuck at it but a 29-15 loss was the result.
Captain Paul Hartley had a cracking battle with Mervyn King with the lads collecting a last end three to get home 20-19.
The Vipers David Bolt’s rink kept up their unbeaten record with a cracking 24-12 win over Wayne Willgress, how Bolt didn’t get a result with his last bowl is a mystery.
Hartlepool’s Paul Mosley trailed 13-1 dug in got it back to 15-7, a great punch shot got the lads a cracking 5 to put the team ahead overall but dropped a 4 on the next end and eventually finished 23-14 down.
Another Poolie Bryan Henderson as mentioned landed up with the last end narrowly losing out 23-21.
And another Poolie Marc Squirrell steered his rink to an impressive 24-14 win over Tim Stone.
DURHAM |
NORFOLK |
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5 | 10 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 18 | 21 | |||
GR Smith | 1 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 15 | J Sergolo | 10 | 21 | 23 | 26 | 29 | |
P Hartley | 2 | 9 | 13 | 14 | 20 | M King | 8 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 19 | |
D Bolt | 7 | 11 | 19 | 24 | 24 | W Willgress | 1 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 12 | |
P Mosley | 1 | 1 | 7 | 13 | 14 | R Summers | 5 | 13 | 15 | 18 | 23 | |
B Henderson | 7 | 13 | 19 | 20 | 21 | S King | 7 | 16 | 16 | 21 | 23 | |
M Squirrell | 4 | 11 | 17 | 18 | 24 | T Stone | 3 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 14 | |
22 | 49 | 87 | 103 | 118 | 34 | 72 | 87 | 104 | 120 | |||
22 | 27 | 38 | 16 | 15 | 34 | 38 | 15 | 17 | 15 |