Muthaiga Sports Round-Up

MCC V KENYA IRISH SOCIETY

With 20 competitors we had two games of Trips and two of Pairs and the honours were equally divided, each side winning one game in each discipline. However, the shot difference was very much in MCC’s favour, so we retain the splendid trophy for another year. The winning Muthaiga teams were - Oliver Fowler, Yolanda Anderson and Janet Pye and Essie Ndungu and Harvey Herr. The winners for KIS were Clare Jethwa, Hebron (who was granted Honorary Irish Citizenship for the day) and Mairead Healy, Maureen Burns and Alistair Campbell. Gail Langton and Mike Craig won the spider. MCC vs KIS was generously sponsored by Diagio. The trophy and prizes were presented by The Ambassador for Ireland, Fionnuala Quinlan (second right).

CLUB 2-4-2 PAIRS

Winners of 2-4-2 Pairs (from left) Essie Ndungu, Gail Langton (sponsor), Ken Killian and Gerry Cunningham (Captain)

For the Club 2-4-2 Pairs, sponsored by Gail and Eric Langton, we had a very good entry of 16 bowlers and the eight pairs were divided equally into two leagues, which then played 10-end games in Round-Robin fashion. The winners of League 1 were Gail and Patricia Killian, with runners up Essie Ndungu and Ken Killian.

League 2 was won by the Captain Gerry Cunningham and Sheryl Fowler with runners up Maureen Burns and Yolanda Tavares.

In the final, Essie and Ken went into a strong lead early on leaving Maureen and Yolanda chasing the game throughout. The final finished after nine ends with Essie and Ken winning 15-4. Overall, it was a very competitive two days of bowls, which had some surprising results.

The spider was won by Essie and Captain Gerry Cunningham.

CAPTAIN'S DAY BOWLS

Captain's Day at the bowling green started with sherry and ended with whiskey, and somehow in between three excellent games of trips and one game of pairs were played.

The winning trip with the highest shot difference was Mike Craig (second), Essie Ndungu (skip), and Peter Brice (lead). The runners-up were Clare Jethwa (second), Maureen Burns (skip), and Shirley Scroggie (lead).

Social Bowls is held on Tuesdays, Thursdays (3pm) and Sundays (9:30am) In keeping with tradition, whites are worn for Sunday Bowls. All Members are warmly invited to join the Bowling Club, it is open to all ages. New bowlers are mentored and included in events.

Gerry Cunningham Bowls Captain