Continued success for Eastbourne & District Indoor Bowls Club

In the National Mixed Top Club competition Eastbourne overcame Wealden by 12 points to 4 points in Round 1 and in Round 2 came up against a very strong Falaise team and the match turned out to be extremely exciting.

In the 2 Singles matches Eastbourne gained 4 points when Jamie White secured a 21-14 victory over Ray Hodd and Jo Morris was victorious over Lynnsey Jameson 21-7.

In the Mixed Pairs Eastbourne's Sharon King & Mike Taylor lost to Alice Phillimore & Michael Stone 21-15 and in the Triples Eastbourne's Neil Pierce, Nicki Dale and Colin Carrie lost 28-10 to John Cable, Denise Hodd & Rob Morphett with Falaise achieving 8 points.

However in the Mixed Fours Eastbourne's Simon Knight, Chris Dodd, Mandy Carrie & Simon Perry stormed to victory 16-13 over Julie Hawkins, Maxine Clarkson, Trevor Logan & Graham Lavender achieving 4 points and thus meaning 8 points for each club.

This now meant that victory would go the the club with the highest number of shots but as that was level pegging at 83 each an extra end was played on the Mixed Fours rink and in a nail-biting finish Eastbourne were victorious to the delight of the partisan home crowd.

Eastbourne now play Grattons in Round 3.

In the Men's County League Eastbourne had a resounding victory 116-58 over Wealden to lead the East Division by 3.5 points over Falaise.