Cheam's winning run ended

12:27pm Wednesday 16th July 2008

Cheam's run of success in the New Surrey League ended with defeat in both the rinks and triples games. At South London, the home team overcame a 12 shot deficit at the halfway stage to beat Cheam by eight shots.

It was particularly disappointing for Gareth McDonagh's rink, leading at ten ends, but taking only three of the 11 eleven to lose by nine shots.

Mike Haigh's rink was 15-6 up at the 14th but couldn't stop Lee Dickson from picking up eight shots to narrow the final gap to only four.

Meantime, Alan Gover, James Fitzgerald, Dan Morris and Mike McDonagh won comfortably 22-5, but that margin was more than countered by a 14-22 defeat for John Parsons.

Cheam 69 (4pts) South London 75 (8 pts) Rink One: Cheam: Alan Gover, James Fitzgerald, Dan Morris, Mike McDonagh 22 South London: C Burke 15. Rink Two: Cheam: ted Bennett, John Dawson, Greg Barnett, John Parsons 14 South London: M Ryan 22. Rink Three: Cheam: Garry Fitzgerald, Denis Veale, Tony Soper, Mike Haigh 18 South London: L Dickson 14. Rink Four: Cheam: John Hannon, David Self, Gary Stevens, Gareth McDonagh 15 South London: J Graham 24.

Old Coulsdon proved to be too strong for Cheam in the Triples League and a three shot win for Terry Rolfe, Peter Pankhurst and Captain John Parsons was not enough to overcome defeats for the rinks skipped by David Self and Denis Veale who went down by six and eighteen shots respectively.

Cheam 38 (2 pts) Old Cousdon 59 (8 pts) Rink One: Cheam: Ted Bennett, Chas Jaques, David Self 10 Old Coulsdon: E Exell 16. Rink Two: Cheam: Ian Adamson, Dan Morris, Denis Veale 9 Old Coulsdon: J Bradford 27. Rink Three: Cheam: terry Rolfe, Peter Pankhurst, John Parsons 19 Old Coulsdon: P Wright 16