Colchester Indoor Bowlers met Gallows A team from Gallows Bowls Club in the last 16 of the Masons cup. The match was played over two rinks, one at each venue. Unusually both team seemed to like the opposition rink more than their home rink as both teams won away from home. In Colchester Gallows won 15-16 and Colchester won at Gallows 23-16. This meant CIBC won the shot count 38-32 and are in the last 8 teams. They will next play Wellinborough at a neutral venue on February 27th.
At home skip Liz Tunn had in her team Tina Fisher, Linda Hills and Gill Costin. They won the first end before Gallows skip Jo Ashmore, playing with Pam Frary, Lesley Stratten and Irene Lambert proved that they were not hanging about won five of the next six ends to lead 2-9 after seven ends. Liz and her girls hit back by winning the next five ends to lead 10-9 with 12 ends played. The Gallows kicked off again and led 10-14 after fourteen ends. CIBC had it all to do, and they rallied to tie the scores at 15-15 with just the 18th end to play. Well done to Jo and her team who got a shot on the final end.
Away from Home Pam Smith played with Sharon Lunnon, Beverley Oakes and Gail Barrett in her team. They got off to a slow start as home skip L. Hannant and her team W. Wilkinson, G. Hannant and P. Whitehead won the first two ends by single shots. CIBC won two of the next three ends and grabbed the lead 5-3. They lost the next three ends badly and were losing 5-12 after eight ends. However, winning the next four ends and getting eleven shots in the process put CIBC back in front 16-12 with just six ends to play. Both teams won three of the final ends but CIBC earned 7 shots to Gallows 4. CIBC won the game 23-16.