Liberty Trophy – Durham v Lincolnshire Report
Durham 108 v 95 Lincolnshire
At Doncaster IBC
Saturday 14th January 2023 – Start Time 11am
(A couple of changes to the selected team)
With the Higgins brothers not available there were a couple of enforced changes to the team that beat Cumbria. Hartlepool’s Gary Smith returned to skip his rink and club mate Bryan Henderson came in third to replace Mark Higgins. Hartlepool’s Alex Portway was moved from Andy Kirtland’s rink to second bowl in Paul Mosley’s all Hartlepool squad in place of Carl Higgins. That meant the Viper’s Paul Sainthouse slotted in at two in Kirtland’s rink.
The lads opened up a 20 shot lead on the holding Doncaster surface, a charge from Lincolnshire saw them turn the game on its head as they stormed into a six shot lead. One thing about our lads they don’t panic and regrouped to open up another healthy 14 shot lead which they hung onto.
Across the green Marc Squirrell’s squad were again outstanding and ran out 24-9 winners against J.West. Fresh from Potters the Viper duo of David Bolt and Paul Hartley both recorded wins. Bolt beating Jordan Philpott 21-13 and Hartley narrowly beating M.Orrey by 1. Paul Mosley went down 21-13, Gary Smith lost by a couple and Andy Kirtland lost by 1.
So next up will be either Cambridgeshire or Leicestershire on 4th March.
1 | B Mosley | Hartlepool | 1 | R Bewick | Hartlepool | 1 | M Ray | Hartlepool |
2 | A.Portway | Hartlepool | 2 | C Boston | Hartlepool | 2 | P Sainthouse** | Vipers |
3 | S Slaughter | Hartlepool | 3 | B Henderson* | Hartlepool | 3 | M Jones | Hartlepool |
S | P Mosley | Hartlepool | S | GR Smith | Hartlepool | S | A Kirtland | Hartlepool |
1 | C McGready | Vipers | 1 | J Harston | Grt Aycliffe | 1 | J Minto | Vipers |
2 | M Peach | Vipers | 2 | C Morrison | Hartlepool | 2 | P Smithson | Vipers |
3 | G Farquhar | Vipers | 3 | G Skipp | Hartlepool | 3 | J McKenna | Vipers |
S | D Bolt | Vipers | S | M Squirrell | Hartlepool | S | P Hartley | Vipers |
Reserves | T Cairns | Darlington | ||||||
J Forcer | Hartlepool | |||||||
C Higgins** (N/A) | Hartlepool | |||||||
M Higgins* (N/A) | Hartlepool |