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Corse & Staunton S.M.B.C |
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Corse & Staunton S.M.B.C
Club Colours are Bottle green with white polo shirt and Corse & Staunton logo. |
Updated12/06/2003 Corse & Staunton has been in existence since 1994. The first Chairman was Jim Pratt, the man whose idea initially formed the club. Two bowls mats were hired from Newent Sports Centre at a cost of £10.00 per week. In 1995 the club received a £1.000 grant for equipment from the "Foundation for Sports and Art". This was a great boost and enabled the club to purchase two mats at cost price. It was a soon agreed that due to the number of members attending a third mat should be bought. Second hand bowls were purchased for members to use. The club was running well and had played 17 friendly matches in the first 2 years, but only 2 were won. By 1996 the club boasted a membership of 47. Two sessions were played each week, both on Tuesday. In the afternoon, the older members of the community would meet and play bowls. In the evenings, the keener members would meet for their two & half hour session. Underlay for the bowls mats were the next purchase. This enabled more bowls to be kept on the mat - a very popular decision. 20 friendly games were played throughout the third year - most were lost. 9 teams from the club entered the County Championships which doubled as the Nationals Qualifiers. The members had no idea what they were doing, apart from bowling. Stewart Minchew was runner up in the Singles Competition and the following week, Gill Johnson, Barbara Bubb, David Bubb and Stewart Minchew won the fours. In the County league 14 games were played, 8 games were won and the team ended up 5th out of 8. Three members of the club represented Hereford & Gloucestershire. At the start of the winter, a second league team was formed. By 1997, some members had regular visits to the Nationals. One team consisting of Gill Johnson, Pauline Barley, Des Barley and Stewart Minchew scored a maximum 8 shots and played in the last 16. Gill & Stewart entered the England trials for the first time. This year, the club won its first major Competitions: -
Unfortunately, the second team did not manage to win a match in their first league year. The next year our 1st league team won the First Division Trophy again. The club was improving year by year, so much so, that all available trophies within the two Counties were won within a 2 year period. Gloucestershire & Herefordshire have played as independent Counties for the past four years. Club members have been on the winning side for the Gloucestershire County singles cup three times, the pairs cup once, the triples twice, the fours cup once the mixed fours three times. At present, the club practices on Tuesday afternoons, (this is still for the more mature members) Tuesday evenings & Thursday evenings. The club arranges a singles, a pairs a triples and a fours competition during the year, to which all members are invited. In 2002 Gill Johnson was invited to play in the England Team & was proud to represent her Club, County at the British Isles Championship in Dumfries. David Bubb has been the County Secretary since its formation, he is also the Director of Umpires for the E.S.M.B.A Stewart Minchew has been the County Captain for the past season. This article was written by Stewart Minchew.
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The selection for the teams was done out of the hat.
Wiltshire Summer Open Fours Competition yr 03 Dave Gilbert put on another well-organised competition on Sunday 25th May 03. The venue had been changed to Clarrie Dunbar Bowling Club, Standerwick Frome. The competition was again run as a round robin event with teams playing five games over 7 ends, each game being played on a different mat. The winner would be decided by points, then shot diff, ends won. However; this was not the case of a new mix & match team consisting of Roy Sentance (Hardwicke SMBC), Stewart Minchew, Gill Johnson, Bill Mackie from (Corse & Staunton SMBC). They won all five of their games to become the Wiltshire Open Fours Winners. Well done!
After the match and a few drinks the group decided they should be known as Hard-Cor, short for Hardwicke & Corse. There were many clubs from Gloucestershire entered in this Summer Open Fours Competition. Dave Gilbert announced that the next competition would be on 4th November 03. We look forward to competing again.
Thanks to Stewart Minchew & Gill Johnson of Corse & Staunton for the information supplied © Copyright 2003
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