Tag: Hoole Village Hall Bowls Competition
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Eastwood Cup 2026
Believe it or not, the Eastwood Cup this year was not run by humans alone. With 10 entries into the Eastwood Cup, Janice turned to Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help her design a suitable competition format for 10 players. AI not only decided that a round robin with 2 groups of 5 players would be…
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Billy Miller Cup 2025
For the first time this year, a club competition was predominantly played under wet conditions. Twenty competitors took to the green in five groups of four, with everyone playing others in their group once in the first stage of this round robin style tournament, all playing for the Billy Miller Cup. Rain did not stop…
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Village Hall Cup Results 2025
The Village Hall Cup day began under dreary skies for the 16 competitors, with the first of the round robin games taking place in drizzly conditions. But by midday, the sun was peaking through and made the rest of the day very pleasant both for players and spectators. The round robin produced some really tight…
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President’s Day 2025
On Sunday 6th July 2025, the Hoole President’s Day began early, with this year’s President, John Medcalf eager for the competition to get going. The format would be a knockout, with a consolation ‘plate’ round for those losing their first game. While those not involved in the first games looked on, John wandered around the…
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Tony Brogden Cup 2025
As forecast, the Tony Brogden Cup got underway with a blanket of showery skies forcing players to dig out their waterproofs. But after the first round, fine weather prevailed and the bowlers enjoyed a dry day in the sunshine. The cup was run as a round-robin, with the players divided into groups of 4. Each…
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Eastwood Cup 2025 Results
Sunday saw the first club competition of the year take place – the Eastwood Cup.
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President’s Day 2024 Results
President’s Day kicked off with a large number of entries taking part in the competition’s first round, on what began as a wet and windy Sunday morning. This year’s club President, Geoff Blamire, was amongst the field of entries, and soon progressed to the second round. By lunchtime, the sun began to peek through, and, combined…
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Billy Miller Cup 2023 Results
You wouldn’t be wrong in thinking that the Billy Miller Cup had a very wet ending on Sunday, after a hot and humid day that included some very close results and high quality bowling on display. With the 2 finals (main and plate competition) in progress, the dark clouds moved in and brought with them…
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Tony Brogden Cup 2023 – Results
On one of the most beautifully warm and sunny days of the year so far, the Tony Brogden Cup was taken home by none other than Tony’s son, Andrew Brogden. Andrew put on a fantastic show of bowling to beat Paul Cafferkey in a tense cat and mouse final. With many of Tony’s family members…
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Knockout Competition Update
With the singles and doubles knockout competitions now in full swing, entry fees of £5 per person per competition are due asap. Players should hand money to Phil Dagnall, who has kindly offered to collect entry fees this year. You can catch Phil at social bowling sessions or at any of the league matches he…
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Club Knockout Competition Draws Are Live
This years club singles and doubles competition draws have been made!
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2023 Eastwood Cup Results
Today’s Eastwood Cup was characterised by an extremely high standard of bowling and a great social atmosphere. A short period of rain threatened to dampen spirits early on but this soon passed and conditions only improved as the day went on, with sunshine prevalent for the final few games. In the main competition, the top…