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ABINGTON HAVE AGAIN made it into the Northants area final of the men's National Top Club torunament. A dogged performance at Northampton Express saw them past a group of top bowlers on a sticky wicket.

 

On a lightning-fast, unpredictably patchy surface the standard of bowling all round suffered, but the visitors proved their mettle with all five disciplines being keenly contested. In such battles, the first point on the board can often be the crucial one, and so it proved here, with Adam Brown edging the 2-wood singles after a 21-ender, 14-12.

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It was the pairs who delivered for Abington second. Robin Adams & Iain Walker led from the off and finished with three ends to spare. It was the triples - Dave Poole, Simon David & team captain John Freeman - who ended the match. David produced a superb bowl on the final end to pour cold water on Express' kindling hopes of a last-minute smash-and-grab.

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30/06/2026: SEVEN POINTS were earned at the expense of Northampton Express in this week's Monday Triples League. The majority were claimed by Abington B on the fast-running surface of Express' green to keep them firmly in command of Division 3. Up in the second tier, the C-team remain stuck in the relegation zone, agonisingly short of a potentially vital win.​

 

​​​​​​​ The Bs were quick out of the traps and rarely had cause to worry about a clean sweep that ended 60-35 on shots, Alan Mann, Pat McAlwane and Terry Brown the star rink with 25-9. Hopes are still high that they can join (rather than replace) the C-team in Division 2, but the Cs will need more of those fine margins to come down on their side. Just one extra shot would have given them a 43-42 win and at least three points, but without it, they had to settle for two. One winning rink, two beaten and an aggregate tie that leaves them three marks adrift of 6th placed Byfield.

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The A-side sit in the same trapdoor position in the top flight. They were left with just one point from the visit of high-flying Desborough, despite a sensational first half.

 

Making his debut as a skip, Simon David produced a very creditable 19-15 win over John Haines for the sole point. However, 17 of those shots had come in the first eight ends, and all three rinks finished more weakly than they'd started. At the halfway point, Abington A were on course for four points themselves. Now they also have reason to be thankful that the marathon isn't yet half-run.

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28/06/2026: ABINGTON WILL PLAY no further part in the National 2-Fours this year. The A-team were defeated in the 3rd round by Kingsthorpe B, the same outfit who had knocked out our B-side in the previous stage.

 

The game began brightly, with both rinks leading for most of the early exchanges but after taking an 11-5 lead at halfway, Iain Walker's rink simply ran out of shots. Their Kingsthorpe opponents came back and overwhelmed them 22-11. And with John Freeman's rink finishing deadlocked at 14-all, that 11-shot difference was also the gap between the two sides on aggregate.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​