Swanspool - Away. Wednesday 4th March 2026. Match Result

Website updated 06-Mar-2026

On Wednesday 4th March 2026 we travelled to Wellingborough to play Swanspool.

It was a match where all the bowlers, including the ‘home’ Swanspool players, struggled to keep their bowls on the extremely fast, swingy and very lumpy mats. There were often fewer than half of the sixteen bowls delivered left on the mat at the close of an end, the rest having run off the sides or gone long into the ditch.

In a strange coincidence, both Saxon teams won six of the first eight ends, taking the lead on both mats at half time. However both Swanspool teams won six of the last eight ends, with the team on mat one scoring particularly heavily. Unfortunately this meant that in a frustrating afternoon’s play, fighting the conditions as much as their opponents, Saxons ‘A’ lost by 6 shots, while Saxons ‘B’ managed to just hang on to win by a single shot.

Saxons ‘A’ lost by 12 – 18
Saxons ‘B’ won by 15 – 14

Saxons lost overall, 27 to 32

Team A : Carole Bourne, Jeanette Statham, Tony Sellick, Roger Bond
Team B : Anna Davies, Les James, Ann Cook, Roger Gill