The week began with a friendly game against our friends from Havelock Park Vets, great bunch of guys and a good day was had by all. Tuesday we had the county O60 trial on our green and another good day for the club, good bowls on show to give the selectors a headache in picking a team.
Penyglyn evening game on Tuesday was postponed and a new date will be posted when we get one. The ladies finally kicked off their season in the Penyglyn afternoon league on Thursday, an away fixture at Gilwern resulted in a 38-58 defeat picking up 2 points to 8.
Friday we started our defence of the South Wales Mixed league title with a tough away game at Barry Romilly, we recieved a very warm welcome and hospitality. The green was one of the best surfaces we have played on this season by far, we gave a good account of ourselves before finally dropping to a 52-58 defeat collecting 1 point to 4.
Saturday saw the start of the Monmouthshire knockout games for the Carruthers shield, we had a potential banana skin away to New Tredegar, a club on the up with a number of young enthusiastic bowlers, sure they will be competing at a higher level pretty soon. Our guys started slow and things look very ominous during the early exchanges, but they kept fighting and got on terms in the middle section of the match and hanging on to secure a fort shot victory, 83-79. Again a great welcome and hospitality, we wish the New Tredegar boys all the best for the rest of the season.
Staurday evening the draw for the next round gives us another trip to Llanhilleth, where we played last week, but we will take nothing for granted as the Llan boys will be looking for quick revenge of their league defeat last week.
