England Under 18 Teams Bring Back the Bacon

England’s young guns secured gold in three of the four disciplines played at Dunfermline last weekend…

England’s under 18 teams showed their class in the BIIBC under 18 international series, held at Abbeyview Indoor Bowling Club in Dunfermline last weekend, to continue England’s dominance at this event.

The singles, pairs and triples saw an all-England affair in every final, but the fours final was contested by the two teams representing Scotland to stop a clean sweep of events being won by England.

The two England teams came out joint top on points, with England 1 and 2 both securing 18 points, significantly more than third placed Scotland 1 with 10.

Dan Seabourne won the singles for England 1 when he defeated fellow countryman Jack Bird from England B, the pair sharing the spoils in the first set 6-6 and Seabourne clinching the second 10-7, after scores of 2, 3 and 2 to come back from 7-3 down.

The pairs final was also an all-England affair, although Seabourne could not make it a double as he and his skip Noah Cummings lost on a tie-break to England 2 representatives Cameron Legate and Connor Cinato, with Legate and Cinato claiming the first 9-6, losing the second 5-8 and keeping their nerve to claim the tie-break 2-0.

England 1 claimed the triples against their England counterparts in the final. Holly Arundel, Greg Chalkin and Jamie Baker defeated Lydia Cutmore, Jack Bird and Bradley Coles in straight sets, 8-5, 8-3.

However, the fours saw an all-Scottish final, with the Scotland 2 rink of John Reid, Gemma Forrester, Ryan Kerr and John Meikle winning after storming out of the blocks to a 10-1, first set win, then narrowly losing the second 5-6, before claiming both ends in the tie-break to win it 2-0.

FINAL TABLE

1st England 1 18 pts

1st England 2 18 pts

3rd Scotland 1 10 pts

4th Wales 2 8 pts

5th Scotland 2 7 pts

5th Wales 1 7pts

7th Ireland 6 pts

8th Channel Islands 4 pts