Monday, 1st December 2008

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Praise, despite opening defeats

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JERSEY team manager Mavis Le Marquand was full of praise for her team at the Belmont Club in Belfast yesterday, in spite of the fact that they had lost both openers to Scotland, 110-83, and England, 115-82.

British Isles crown for Greechan

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ISLANDER Lindsey Greechan is the new British women’s outdoor bowls champion.

Greechan faces final test in quest for British title

JERSEY’S young bowls star Lindsey Greechan faces England champion Edna Bessell in the final of the British Isles women’s outdoor singles championship at the Belmont club in Belfast today.

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The green machine

MAVIS Le Marquand, who partnered Sheila Syvret to the pairs silver medal in the women’s world outdoor championships at Ayr in 1992, is looking forward to her new role – as Jersey’s team manager in the home international series in Belfast next week.

World bowls pairs semi-final spot for Jersey’s Greechans

JERSEY’S husband and wife duo Lindsey and Thomas Greechan scored a straight sets victory over Welsh hopes Ben Thomas and Becky Shore that took them into the last four of the WIBC world indoor mixed pairs championship at Swansea yesterday.

Bowls youngsters lead the way with five out of eight CI triumphs

JERSEY has some of the best young bowlers ever seen in the Channel Islands, said team manager Ty Thomas after his players had won five of the eight Channel Island titles at the indoor bowls stadium at Grainville last weekend.

Grimes in sixth spot

CHRISTINE GRIMES defeated Cyprus’ Linda Ryan but lost to Fiji’s Litia Tikiosuva today in her latest games at the WBL Women’s Bowls World Cup in Warilla.

Guernsey pull out of CI ladies’ bowls match

A LACK of bowlers has led to Guernsey withdrawing from the women’s Le Quesne Trophy bowls inter-insular which was due to have been played in Jersey this weekend.

Jersey start with win in World Cup

JERSEY’S Christine Grimes got off to a great start at the WBL Women’s Bowls World Cup in Warilla, Australia, with an 8-8, 9-5 win over Singapore’s Leng Li Li today.

Scots squeeze out Jersey trio in British final

JERSEY’S Sue Noel, Freda Videgrain and Gaynor Thomas lost 17-14 to Scotland in the final of the triples event at the Women’s British Isles Indoor Bowls Championship in Llanelli on Monday.