Season's News
The club are delighted to welcome Waveney Windows as the sponsor of the August 2-Wood Fours Tournament as well as sponsors of the EBA Team shirts. This is the first time that the Club has received sponsored team shirts.
The Parravani's Ice Cream sponsored Charity Tournament raised £125 for Quidenham Hospice.
On Saturday 23rd June Roger Bullen captained Bungay to their second appearance in three years in the quarterfinals of the Suffolk EBA Bert Edwards Cup county competition. Sproughton were the opponents at Bungay and it was they who got off to the better start so that by the halfway stage (eleven of twenty one ends) they held an advantage of four shots by winning on one ring and drawing on the other two. However by the fifteenth end Roger’s foursome had scored an additional fourteen shots, while Alfie Broughton's foursome had a one shot advantage and Dominic Belisario's foursome were still down by just four, giving Bungay an eleven shot advantage. Over the last quarter of the match Bungay went into damage limitation mode but still managed to eke out an advantage as they finally won by sixty-nine shots to fifty-two. The quarterfinals will be played at Ipswich on Saturday 7th July.
At Ipswich the team were looking for revenge against a strong Felixstowe and Suffolk team that had beaten Bungay at Bungay in the first round of the same competition last season. (Bungay originally thought they were in with a fair chance as the handbook said they were playing at Hopton.) However it was always going to be an uphill struggle as the Felixstowe players are regular visitors to the green for league matches, despite the green being set to a "neutral" five rinks. Alfie Broughton's rink started in winning form while the other two rinks, skipped by Dominic Belisario and Club Captain Roger Bullen, got off to losing starts. By the half way stage Bungay were just four shots behind, but then, as described by, Roger "the wheels came off" and Felixstowe won all three rinks to win by over twenty shots.
On Saturday 14th July the Suffolk County EBF Area A semi-finals took place on the newly laid green at Wenhaston. The Bungay club were represented by Richard Allen who had reached this stage in the Champion of Champions two wood singles competition where he faced the experienced Richard Utting from Wrentham. The Wrentham champion got off to an impressive eight nil start before Richard Allen troubled the scoreboard. However the as the match progressed the score widen and a disappointed Bungay champion eventually lost 21-11.
Ian Gosling's Benacre League team won the Second Division title by just a single point from Blundeston. Peter Nunn's Beccles A team were relegated from the First Division.
©2007 Bungay Bowls Club
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