The civic week recently came to an end with MBC having 2 successes at this years comps. The Ladies and Gents titles both came to players at MBC in Andrea Ainley & Dillon Christopherson.

The ladies finals day was first up for MBC with Kerry Brown and Andrea Ainley in the final 8. No easy games at this stage of the competition, Kerry’s first game against fellow S.Yorkshire county player Linda Hawksworth, Kerry coming through 21-14 to progress to the semis. Andrea had a tough game again with a fellow S.Yorkshire county player in Melanie Saville-Fearn, Andrea coming through 21-20 in a tight game. Next up in the semi’s for Kerry was last years winner Debbie Whitworth, Kerry took an early lead and came through with a 21-15 victory to move through to the final. In the other Semi Andrea played Jane Richardson and flew into an early 18-1 lead and finished the game with a 21-3 victory to set up the all MBC final. The final for Kerry would be her 11th appearance in the comp at this stage having won it on 6 previous occasions, for Andrea this would be her first appearance in a final at the civics. The final was an evenly fought contest with both players bowling well, in the end it was a maiden civics title for Andrea who came through to win 21-14.

On to the Gents event now, and MBC had 5 players in the last 16 of the men’s draw. Jack Clarke, Dillon Christopherson, Andrew Whitaker, Paul Bailey & Ian Christopherson all in the mix at the start of the day. First up for MBC was Andrew Whitaker playing Jon Sneddon, a tightly contested game with some fantastic bowls from the pair with Jon coming through 21-20. Paul Bailey took on Paul Wildgoose coming through with a 21-13 win, Ian Christopherson played Sean Jackson with Ian losing out 21-13. Dillon’s first game against another up and coming junior in Callum Jeffrey was nip and tuck until the halfway mark with Dillon then taking control of the game and coming through 21-13, in the last of the 1st round Jack Clarke took on Mark Jackson and came through with a 21-13 victory. The Quarter Finals threw up a good test for Dillon Christopherson who took on a fellow MBC player in Jack Clarke. In a close game that was well contested by both Dillon came through with a 21-17 victory to move through to the Semi Finals, in the other Quarter Final Paul Bailey played Jon Sneddon with Paul losing 21-5. The Semi Final saw Dillon take on a previous winner in Peter Worfolk, a game that saw Dillon take control from the word go. He bowled consistently well and maintained his composure at crucial times to come through with a 21-14 win to move to the Final to play Jon Sneddon, who came through his Semi Final with Steve Marshall 21-11. In the Final Dillon raced into an 18-6 lead, leading well to his own block and maintaining the consistency he had shown in the previous rounds, never to be written off however, Jon started the fightback, found a few leads and ended up 20-19 up. The final end saw Jon lead a 6 inch bowl but Dillon came in with a bowl inside and propped the lead out, Jon’s next bowl was underneath and no where to be a bother in the end, Dillon bowled a superb last bowl that saw him play inside his first bowl to sit Jon’s bowl out of the end completely and claimed 2 for game. Dillon bowled well all day and kept his cool at critical moments – a fully deserved winner of this years comp. Well done Dillon.