2009/10
Mixed fours 2009/10
Pat and Brian Saunders with Steve and Debbie Phillips finished runners up to Jean Woods (Bob Carter), Jenny Walker (Bradwell), Jon Sparham (Hempnal) and David Lamb (Halvergate) who were crowned champions of the mixed fours championship 2009/10 on the 06-12-09. The Wymondham rink looked like walking away with final after being 5-0 up after two ends. This caused David Lamb to go skip with Jon not at his best went third but a couple of good woods on end five produced a six and bought the match back to their favour going 6-7 up, which then shocked the Wymondham four who then couldn't get back in it and eventually lost 7-8.
Fours 2009/10
After winning the county triples last season Debbie, Steve and Chris knew with England's British Isle "A" team champion David Lamb of Halvergate in the fours would be quitely confident of pulling off another county title victory and they did so. The first game didn't bode well for them as they lost to Bradwell in the opening match of there group 4-8. Bad luck and strange lines paid a part in there first game but there second match in the group showed what the team was all about beating Shirley, Joe and Gerald from Kirby Bedon along with Hevingham's George Clarke 10-3. As they were only in a group of three the win was big enough to see them through as group winners, this saw them get drawn against Colin Coeman, Elaine and Bob Oatway of First Bus along with Connaught's Alison Rush in the quarter finals. Some big ends were scored from Wymondham with two 4's and a five which meant they didn't even need to play the last end against last years champions. This was also the case in the semi finals as well against the highly rated four of Jill and Phill Watson and Teresa and Selwyn Goldsmith all of Kirby Bedon who have already won the title on four previous occassions and were runner's up last year. Another dominate performance from the four saw them wrap up the game with an end to spare as they won the match 13-1. The final was against the block they played in the group stage Shirley, Joe and Gerald from Kirby Bedon and George Clarke from Hevingham. This was always going to be a difficult match with the block wanting revenge from there defeat in the group stage and so it turned out to be going down to the last end with Wymondham block 5-4 ahead going into the last end. The jack was on the edge of the mat as Gerald's heavy wood had cliped it and it left the Wymondham four holding two with George's last wood he just missed out as the wood went passed and the Wymondham and Halvergate combined four celebrated after a great days bowling.
Triples 2008/09
Wymondham over the past few seasons have began to win many trophies in the winter season, and there recent was to be the sweetest yet beating rivals Connaught in the final of the county triples this season (2008).
This was the first time a Wymondham team, let alone a player, has one a major county trophy.
Pictured below are S.Phillips (Captain) who played lead, D. Phillips who played second and skip C. Mann (vice captain) who played skip.
The triple played well in all games and the semi-final was an intregging encounter with them coming up against a formidable force in C. Turner, M Woods and J. Turner who looked like picking up a 4 in the first end untill skip Mann came down with a weighted wood and wicked the jack right across the mat to pick up 2 and from there on the triple manged to keep an arms length of the triple with most of the heads going Wymondham's way.
The final was against Connaught with R. Hales as lead, L . Fallows as two and S. Bragg as skip. The game was nip and tuck all the way through with both skips missing good oppourtunities to grab an iniciative. But it came down to the last end all level with Mann drawing to the jack an inch from the dead line but with Bragg having a wood still to play all she needed to do was make contact with it to win, but unfortunately missed.
The win was hard fought but the triple were delighted and look forward to playing in the nationals at Kettering in April.
Pairs 2008/09
Mann has also had some joy in the county pairs this season finishing with a runners up spot with partner R. Lamb. This was the first time they both finished in a county pairs final and both played well apart from the final, but will both be happy to going to the Nationals in April. This will be the first time they will have played in the Nationals this season.
