Bowls News from the Lothians
Billy Mellors brought great honour to the East Lothian banner as the 40-year-old paraded his skills to capture the coveted Scottish Indoor Singles title. Wins over Ronnie Duncan of Midlothian and former champion Mike Stepney of Elgin in the semi-final and final respectively in the national finals at Fraserburgh IBC last weekend brought the former … Read more
A sixth world indoor singles brought East Lothian ace Alex ‘Tattie’ Marshall’s tally of world titles to an amazing 20, and his bank account was bolstered by the addition of a £55,000 prize purse in last Sunday’s Just Retirement final against Anglo Scot Andy Thomson at Potters Leisure Resort in Norfolk.
Tomorrows programme of fixtures is the Bowls equivalent of football’s Super Saturday and Bainfield is at the eye of the storm in terms of facing the fight of their lives to preserve their indoor bowls premier league status.
East Lothian and world bowls icon Alex ‘Tattie’Marshall MBE hopes of landing a record breaking fourth World Indoor Pairs title with former garden county teammate Paul Foster MBE were thwarted when they suffered defeat against the English duo of Simon Skelton and Robert Paxton in Monday’s final at Potters Leisure Resort in Norfolk.
Midlothian bounced back to winning form and their impressive 98-71 triumph away to Abbeyview has kept them in with a glimmer of hope of making it into the playoff final of the indoor bowls premier league.
East Lothian icon figure Alex ‘Tattie’ Marshall MBE and partner Paul Foster MBE are chasing further glory for their already packed CV after producing a grandstand finish in last Monday’s all Scottish semi-final pairs clash in the Just Retirement World Indoor Championships at Potters Leisure Resort to move through to their fifth successive pairs final … Read more
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