Crown Green Bowling: Trevor Ingledew takes merits prize

A record number of entrants competed for the Harrogate and District Crown Green Bowling Veteran’s League Merits this year.

Trevor Ingledew stormed through the rounds to win the top prize, as he beat Alan Baldwin 21-10 in the final last week.

The competitions were held at Wayside Bowling Club, with the preliminary rounds on Monday, August 11 and Tuesday, August 12.

The final session took place last Thursday.

The top four players from the Monday session met the best four from Tuesday in Thursday’s final session.

These were Alan Blackburn and pictured from the left Jack Thomson, Alan Baldwin, Barrie Sugden, Steve Cochrane (Yorkshire ABA), Phil Attwell, Derrick Fox, Peter Syson and Trevor Ingledew.

All games were closely fought and Alan Blackburn won his quarter-final to play Alan Baldwin, while Derrick Fox beat Phil Attwell to play Trevor Ingledew in the semi-finals, both of which were knife edge games.

Blackburn surged ahead in the early stages of the game but Baldwin fought back to equalise at seven across before going into the lead.