THREE WINS FROM THREE puts Abington on top in the Friday women's triples league. The trio of Wendy Thompson, Diana Brown and Lis Milburn dropped shots on only four of the 16 ends to rack up a 25-8 mauling of their St. Crispin's opponents, ensuring Abington took the overall win. 

The latest success gives Abington an early three-point advantage over Kingsthorpe, who they have already defeated once. Roade sit a further point back, but with a game in hand. There was further good news for our women bowlers this week, with Brown and Debbie Bradshaw both selected for Northamptonshire's next match in the Johns Trophy, vs. Cambridgeshire. Best of luck to both.

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4/6/2023: YOU CAN'T WIN THEM ALL. Debbie Bradshaw's rink exited the women's county fours at the quarter-finals, having been drawn against one of the strongest line-ups in Northants, on their own green.

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The Abington rink, which also included Christine Ball, Judy Jones & Gill Crossley, had reached the crucial finals day at Wellingborough with a dominant 25-10 display over Jill Welch from Heyford. But unfortunately found the tables turned on them by the rink entered in Alison Dring's name, skipped by Tina Broderick. Having dispatched Abington 28-5, the Boro women went on to underline their dominance by crusing through the semi final later in the day by a similar scoreline.

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~ Abington involvement in the men's county 2-wood is also over, with none of our guys making it through to the quarters. But we still made an impact. The first major headline of the south area play-offs was made by Abington's Robin Adams, who knocked out Danny Walker of Northampton West End, champion in this event for the last two seasons. However, Adams was afforded no time to celebrate and was immediately undone himself by Paul Green of Northampton Express in the next round. Such is the carousel of sporting fortunes.

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3/6/2023: TWO ABINGTON RINKS qualifed for the last eight of the men's county fours. Phil Reeve's rink, also featuring Simon Coles, and our two recent recruits from Carlsberg, Joe Kovacs & John 'Lord' Allen, smashed their way past Mick Spear of Kingsthorpe. 23-11 on the latter's home turf.

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Abington had been guaranteed at least one quarter-finalist when another section of the draw threw Jonathan Brown and John Freeman's rinks up against each other for a group final. The latter came good by a fairly comfortable margin, having come into the game with the momentum of an incredible 22-3 thrashing of Vernon Gearey's rink, also from Kingsthorpe, on the Wednesday night. Freeman, Tony O'Leary & Iain Walker have already reached the triples semis but, alongside the irrespressible Robin Adams, are clearly not resting on those laurels.