London & Southern Counties

The L&SC entries are being organised by Duncan Gauld

L&SC are a prestigious organisation running similar comps to the Nationals but no Top Club. Mostly men's competitions, but they have introduced mixed pairs and fours recently. Their web site is here. If you are looking for our fixtures under the competitions tab, choose area B.

The club nominates the entrants.

There are two 21 - shot mens' singles competitions- a 'Gold Badge', for which clubs are encouraged to enter their previous year's club champion, and the 'Lonsdale', for which clubs are encouraged to enter their championship runner-up or the winner of their handicapped singles. There are also Pairs, Triples and Fours contests; the club has entered all of these. No player can play in more than one of these competitions. And the main inter-club Competition, the Challenge Shield, which is a two-fours. Recently they have added two mixed competitions: Pairs and Fours. Click on the links to see the draw and results so far.

2022 

Our entrants in 2022 are:
- Gold Badge Singles - George Reid got into the Area final by beating M. Crick from Hazells 21-10. He then beat Simon Varty of Bletchley St Martins 21-19, taking him to the competition semi-final, which he lost  21-15 to Jamie Holmes of Kings Chase in Essex
- Lonsdale Singles - Duncan Gauld: bye in 1st round, 2nd round v Iver Heath, June 12th am, at home, won 21-13. He beat Chesham next 21-10, but then lost to Hazells 15-21.
- Pairs - Simon Lowe & Stephen McAlister: won 1st round v Chesham, 12-5; 2nd round v Slough, June 12th am, at home, sadly lost on the last end, 18-19
- Triples - The men’s triples of Tim Jones, Michael Gomme & Matthew Hyde won at Hazells 17-14 to reach the Area final. They then won their area final 29-9 away to Luton Town BC & won the semi final against the Area D winners for a place in the final on 3rd September, in which they beat North London to win the championship.
- Fours - we had to give our opponents a walk-over.
- Mixed Pairs - Denise Newport & Bob Doddington, lost their first round
- Mixed Fours - Katie Reid, Julie Skelly, Noel Barry and Keith Patrick beat Bush Hill Park 29-21, and Wanstead Central 21-10 and in the Area final won 19-14 at the neutral green Aylesbury Town BC against a team from Bletchley Town. In the final at Bounds Green BC, London they lost to Wandilea.


Challenge Shield

v Iver Heath
Lost 34-43

v Harpenden 5th June

Away team	Home Team
Keith Young	Gill Young
Simon Cobb	Tim Jones
Bob Doddington	Duncan Gauld
Keith Patrick	Stephen McAlister

Won 14-29

2021 Results

We won the Fours, congratulations to David Simpson, Tim Godman, Tim Jones and Stephen McAlister.

2019 Results

Gold Badge Singles: Tom McGuinness
Won the first game against Bletchley Town, but couldn't manage the second game against Aylesbury.

Lonsdale Singles: Keith Patrick
Won the first two matches comfortably, but lost the third by just two points

Fours: David Grieve + three others
Won the first game against Harpenden but then lost to St Albans.

Challenge Shield A team: Manged by David Ross
Challenge Shield B team: Manged by Keith Patrick

Challenge Shield A: Sandy Conservatives

    Lost to the area winners 18-52

    Challenge Shield A: Marlow

    Won 49-24

Challenge Shield A: v Herts (Watford) Sunday 5th May

Away team Home Team Duncan Gauld Neil Farnish Keith Young Tim Jones David Ross Dave Simpson Kirk Smith John McGuinness Won by 19 Won by 21

The away team: Keith, Duncan, Kirk and Dave

 

  Challenge Shield B: Bletchley St Martins

    Lost 25-45

   Challenge Shield B: Luton

    Won 36-34

Challenge Shield B: Ayelsbury Town Thursday 9th May

Away team	Home Team
Gary Amer	Michael Gomme
Chris Harvey	Tom McGuinness
Keith Patrick	Kevin Dwyer
Alan Price	George Reid

Aylesbury threw in the towel with the home team 24-5 at 19 ends.The away team 19-8 up at 15. .

Triples Champions 2022

Andrew Briden, Tim Jones & Matt Hyde

Fours Champions 2021
David Simpson	Tim Godman
Tim Jones	Stephen McAlister

2018 Results

Gold Badge Singles: Andrew Briden
First match v Marlow won 21-5, Second Match v Bovingdon won 21-9, Third vs St Albans Townsend won 21-8. won Area semi-final against Bletchley St Martins 21-3, and Area final against Stoney Stratford 21-12.

The competition semi-final was at Bounds Green bowls club, London N11 2BS, on August 11th against Tom Haskins from Bromley. Sadly Drew lost 21-19. He was 19-19 holding 1 with a back toucher, one wood to come. Tom played the backhand wide, heavy wicks off a short bowl  straight onto the jack, squeezing it out. Two down!

Lonsdale Singles: George Reid
won at Uxbridge 21-0, and again against Iver Heath 21-14, but unfortunately lost to Herts.

Pairs: Duncan/Dave Simpson
beat Denham 26-13, and Marlow 21-0, but lost the area semi-final to Iver Heath.

Triples: Neil Farnish with Nathan Harvey, Tim Jones
We got a walkover in the first round, won the second against Slough 26-8, but lost to Chesham.

Fours: managed by Richard Reid
Beat Harpenden 28-12; Lost 21-12 to Townsend St Albans

Challenge Shield: managed by Alan Price - see column on right

LSC Challenge Shield 2018 Results

Away team	Home Team
Kevin Dwyer	Dave Ross
Ray Keen	Chris Harvey
Tim Jones	Matt Hyde
Keith Patrick	Alan Price
Lost by 12	Drew