Aldersbrook’s Ilford District League season drew to a close, away against Plashet Park and home to North Greenwich.
The Plashet Park fixture showed-up the vagaries of the League’s points system. Plashet took advantage of this, putting out arguably their strongest players on a single rink, recording some big scores to win 22-9.
The other rinks? Aldersbrook won both, coincidentally by the same score, 20-16. So rinks won? Aldersbrook 2 to 1 Plashet’s 1: 4 points to Aldersbrook, 2 to Plashet. The overall shot score (after 972 woods bowled) was 54-49 to Plashet Park, just a 5-shot gap.
But league rules give the team with the overall highest score FOUR bonus points, meaning Plashet won the match 6 points to 4 despite losing the bulk of the games.
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On to the final game, against title-challenging North Greenwich.
Aldersbrook started brightly on Rink 2, moving ahead 7-1 after 4 ends. The visitors fought back to 7-5 down, but Aldersbrook dominated the middle phase of the game to lead 17-7 by the 10th end. With a strong cushion in place the game evened out but Aldersbrook continued to outscore their opponents winning the Rink 26-14
Rink 3 was a close run thing for the first half of the match, scores level 10-10l at 9 ends. North Greenwich had a strong run to build a 16-11 lead. Aldersbrook gave themselves a chance, pulling back to 19-17 but the visitors took the final end and the Rink 20-17.
No problems on Rink 5 as Aldersbrook - after an even first couple of ends - took complete control of the Rink. Moving ahead 14-2 after 8 ends they continued to pile on relentless pressure as they took 7 out of the last 10 ends to triumph 25-5.
Final Score: Aldersbrook 68 North Greenwich 39.
Match Points: Aldersbrook 8 North Greenwich 2
After a difficult start to the season Aldersbrook’s IDL campaign definitely improved during the latter stages. Aldersbrook will be canvassing for change to the points system at the League meeting, the IDL being the only league where rinks won are not the major factor.
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