Sale and District Bowling League

Sale Merit - 2016

The Sale Merit is an individual knock-out competition. All games are 21-up, off scratch. On the final day, homesters’ opponents receive two chalks.

Qualifying rounds were played on Wednesday 13 July to produce eight finalists.

The final day was on Sunday 24 July at Cringlewood.

The competition was won by Ross Kavanagh of Longford Park.

Draw for the final day:

Round 1 Semi-final Final
Malcolm Cooper Longford Park 19 Nigel Armstrong 21 Nigel Armstrong 10 Ross Kavanagh
Nigel Armstrong Nursery BC 21
Grahame Tonge Nursery BC 6 Steve Corbett 18
Steve Corbett Nursery BC 21
Ross Kavanagh Longford Park 21 Ross Kavanagh 21 Ross Kavanagh 21
Chris Eaton Fallowfield 19
Mike Bacon Fallowfield 21 Mike Bacon 13
Sean Chappell Quarry Bank 16

Merit quarter-finalists
Chairman Frank Warburton, winner Ross Kavanagh and President Derrick Hurdwell

Entrants were allocated to qualifying greens as shown below. Those in bold qualified for the final day.

Fallowfield
Ray HoldsworthChorlton
Alan MooneyChorlton
Alan AldersonCringlewood
Des BurgessLongford Park
Malcolm CooperLongford Park
Ross KavanaghLongford Park
Andy ThomasLongford Park
Dennis TongueLongford Park
Steve CorbettNursery
Fatima McDermottNursery
Scott MillsNursery
Sean ChappellQuarry Bank
Gary MintonQuarry Bank
Arthur WestQuarry Bank
Longford Park
Chris GrevilleBrooklands
Ian BaynhamChorlton
Ray BarrowCringlewood
Chris CoxCringlewood
Roy TobinCringlewood
Mike BaconFallowfield
Chris EatonFallowfield
Geoff FletcherFallowfield
Frank WarburtonFallowfield
Nigel ArmstrongNursery
David CrosslandNursery
Grahame TongeNursery
Darrell WilburNursery