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MIDDLESEX CBA EXTEND WINNING STREAK TO 5 MATCHES
Many argue that the key to winning anything in the world of sport is consistency. Middlesex CBA inter County friendly squad are beginning to demonstrate that they have consistency by the bucket load. Having broken their unwanted sequence of 8 straight losses they have now embarked on a run of 5 straight wins!
This week the squad gathered for the long coach trip up the A1 into Huntingdonshire and the match at West Ward BC against Huntingdonshire CBA. Many will remember that last year Middlesex CBA recorded their biggest win of the season against Huntingdonshire CBA when they won by 60 shots, in a match that your reporter will remember for a long time as his inaccuracy cost his rink a whitewash win and he had to eat humble pie in his match report.
This year
although the Margin was not as great the travellers still recorded a
commendable 138 shots to 115 victory, which at that point was the biggest
win of this season. Victory on 4 of the rinks was the basis for the win,
underpinned by the efforts of the top rink of David Southey (Cambridge
Park), Roy Lee (Mansfield), Alex Gibson and Richard Clarke (both Brentham)
who romped home 32 shots to 15. Roy Lee and Alex Gibson are clearly men
that Middlesex need to get out more often as the County have been
victorious, to date, in every game they have played in. Even Richard
Clarke, who by the law of averages, given his level of support to the
side, will play in the occasional loss, has played in all of Middlesex's
wins this season and in the last 4 of them he has contributed by skipping
a winning rink. The trip will also be memorable for Bryan Putnum of Hayes BC who played in his first County Game.
Contrary to popular rumours the nostalgia amongst the travellers did not get dropped off in Pymmes Park on the way home so that they could camp out overnight to relive the Woodstock and Glastonbury experiences of their formative years ahead of the Hertfordshire CBA game, due to be played their the following day. President Tony Paulley insisted all players go home, ahead of the game, so that they would be well rested for the annual battle for the Toucan Trophy (also known as the RUPTURED DUCK) which had been lost to Hertfordshire CBA for the last two years.
Duly rested and fully energised, the players, gathered by the President's rallying cry to regain the trophy, then dispatched their visitors back up the A10, beaten on all 6 rinks in a 29 shot, (123 shot to 94) victory for Middlesex CBA.
Top rink for Middlesex was skipped by David Todd (Sunbury / County Treasurer), ably assisted by Michael Nelson (Harefield Hospital), Alan Cushnir (Woodcock Park) and Albert Hughes (North Greenwich) who won 29 shots to 17.
Middlesex now have a playing record of 6 wins, 8 losses for the season so far, with a shots difference of -124. Next week they hit the road in an attempt to narrow that gap still further as on Monday 21st they travel to Fairford BC in Gloucestershire CBA and then on Wednesday 23rd they travel up the M11 to Fordham BC and a game with Cambridgeshire CBA
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