Oswestry Bowling League 2025
| Scorecard Sponsor | Chairperson |
League & Competition Secretary |
Fixture Secretary | Treasurer | President |
| Mike Flanagan SECOND HAND BOWLS | Mel Jones | Roger Candlin | Trevor Roberts | Gerry Owen | John Hughes |
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email: secondhandbowls@gmail.com Tel: 01691 886444 Mob: 07474 274935 FB / Insta @mfbowls Based in Four Crosses, Llanymynech
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Wed 23rd Apr 10 results from 10 Matches
Thu 24th Apr 6 Matches
Fri 25th Apr 8 Matches
Mon 28th Apr 1 Match
Tue 29th Apr 12 Matches
COMPETITIONS 2025 - All 10am Start
Comp Date Venue Entry
Division 4 & 5 Singles 1st June Llangynog £5
TOTE 8th June Llanymynech £10
Jubilee Pairs 22nd June Bersham £20 per pair
Mixed Pairs 29th June Cynwyd £10 per pair
Ladies / Youth 20th July Ponciau Park £5
Division 4 & 5 Pairs 3rd August Criftins £10 per pair
Vets Singles 17th August The Rhyn £5
MERIT 31st August Johnstown £10
Veterans Team Knockout Draws (Sponsored by Ableworld)
Peter Kendal Shield
Prelim Llandrillo v Llanymynech at Llangollen to be arranged by 13th June
1/4 Finals Weston Crofte v Johnstown at Whittington, Llangynog A v Church A at Llanrhaeadr, Esclusham v Chirk at Overton, Llangollen v Winner of Prelim, venue TBA
Gwynfor Hughes Cup
1/4 Finals Llanrhaeadr B v Llanrhaeadr A at Llanymynech, The Rhyn v Overton at Chirk, Cynwyd v Church B at Llangollen, Whittington v Llangynog B at Church,
1/4 Final games to be played on Friday 13th June
Important Dates:
Latest information:
Sat 19th Apr
For those teams / players that aren't already aware - Ellesmere A, in division 2, play their home games on their bottom green. Ellesmere B, in division 3, play their home games on their top green.
Fri 11th Apr
We are pleased to announce
The Oswestry & District Bowling League Veterans Team Knockout now has a sponsor :
Ableworld (The leading Mobility & Stairlift retailer)
www.ableworld.co.uk
The sponsorship allows teams free entry into either
The Peter Kendal Shield or Gwynfor Hughes Cup
and will provide prize money too.
A big thank you to Ableworld.
Fri 11th Apr
SHROPSHIRE 'CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS'
Shropshire are re-introducing the Champion of Champions competition last played in 2011.
Each of the League's in Shropshire have been invited to send a representative, the Oswestry League
have agreed to send two representatives one for the League and the other from the Veterans League.
The quailifiers will be the Division One Singles averages winner from both Leagues.
In the event of the winner not being able to attend, second placed bowlers will be invited etc.
Finals day is on Saturday 11 October at Edgmond Bowling Club - no entry fee to the bowler
as the League have agreed to pay for both Leagues.
Thu 3rd Apr
Early starts For the first 2 weeks of the season, matches at greens with no floodlights start at 6:30
Please check the "Flood light" list on the home page menu.
Tue 1st Apr
The floodlights at Whittington will not be working for the start of the 2025 season.
For the first 2 weeks of the season, (8th to 17th April) evening games there will start at 6:30
Mon 17th Mar
In the Vets Divisions, Overton have withdrawn their B team from Division 2. It was agreed at last night's committee meeting that Whittington, who finished 2nd to bottom in division 1 last season, will drop down a division to take their place. This results in both divisions having 9 teams, with 1 bye in each division every week.
In effect, Whittington have taken over Overton B's div 2 fixtures, and Whittington's old division 1 fixtures now become byes.
The previous published fixtures for all other teams will remain the same.
Tue 25th FebFixtures for the Oswestry Midweek League and Oswestry Veterans League are now available for you all to see.
Regarding the early starts for the first 2 weeks and last 4 weeks of the season.
For venues without floodlights, weeks 1 and 2, 19 and 20, matches start at 6:30. Weeks 21 and 22, the start time is 6:15.
Not all clubs have the benefit of floodlights at their venues, it is not a requirement of clubs joining the league. With a 7pm start, there are only 16 weeks in the year, that allows for games to be played in a good naural light, This moves around by a few days every year, and by local weather conditions, but it is always 16 weeks maximum.
As a league, we play with 12 teams in a division, that's 22 weeks of fixtures. At greens where there are no floodlights, matches have to start earlier than 7pm.
We can't change the daylight hours available, so we do our best to create the fixtures with regard to travelling to venues without lights, especially the last 2 matches that have to start at 6:15. Despite this, it's not always possible to get the best result that suits every team.
A computer programme generates the fixtures by allocating letters to each team in each division. It is user freindly (when you get to understand how it works), and there are a number of ways of altering things to see if there is better look to the fixtures, though it doesn't cover everything. You have to balance things out and try to be fair to all teams.
If clubs/teams feel that certain fixtures will cause problems, for what ever reasons, there is an opportunity to change that fixture. Captains need to discuss these issues with each other, if you can come to an amicable agreement, the fixtures can be reversed or even rescheduled to an earlier date. All you need to do is OK the change with the fixture secretary.
What ever you do, don't leave it until the last moment. There are 6 weeks before the season starts and 5 months before the earlier starts at the end of the season begin.