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03 Feb 2026
Barnet League Week Seventeen
This week we had the last three games of stage one of the Barnet League. Mat one had Northiam East’s Mike, Jan and Martin playing Letchworth Lions David, Mick and Alan H. East took the first end for a four, Lions came straight back and levelled it ...
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27 Jan 2026
Barnet League Week Sixteen
Hello to all our Barnet League players and followers, this week we had four scheduled games and one catchup game. This just leaves three games to be played next week before we commence round two where we will be split into two divisions. Our catchup...
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25 Jan 2026
County/National Qualifiers plus Singles Final
Sunday the 25th January saw thirty two of Hertfordshire’s best bowlers meet at Stevenage for the last of our National Qualifiers / County Championship games for this season the mixed fours. With two groups of four teams the morning session saw all...
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20 Jan 2026
Barnet League Week Fifteen
Hello to all our Barnet League players and followers. This week we had five games being played at Hatfield and the one remaining roll-up mat was full as well. The hall was buzzing and everyone was enjoying their game. Read on to see how it all went. ...
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13 Jan 2026
Barnet League Week Fourteen
It’s week fourteen and this Tuesday saw three more games played at Hatfield in our Barnet League. It should have been four games but Harpenden Owls could not field a team this week and conceded their game to Greenwood Hawks with the standard score of...
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13 Jan 2026
Hertfordshire top their group in the I.C.C.
With the final game in the round robin stage being played between Essex and Suffolk on Sunday the 11th January Hertfordshire have come top of their group. This means that we will now enter the Premier One competition. We now have to wait for the resu...
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06 Jan 2026
Barnet League Week Thirteen
Welcome back to 2026 as our coverage of the Barnet League continues, it’s week thirteen could it be unlucky for some or have all those New Year Resolutions to play better worked! This week St Margaret’s fielded two teams so that one of our postponed...
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04 Jan 2026
County / National Qualifiers Singles
Sunday the 04th January and many of Hertfordshire’s elite bowlers along with all of those aspiring of greatness attended Stevenage for the highlight competition of the season, ‘The Singles’. With twenty eight entries this was the largest entry for ...
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21 Dec 2025
National Qualifiers/County Fours
As everyone is getting ready for Christmas and greetings cards are being distributed amongst us all the machine that is the County/National qualifiers goes on. Sunday the 21st saw all those bowlers bidding to become fours champion met at Stevenage as...
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16 Dec 2025
Barnet League Week Twelve
Hello to all our Barnet League players and followers, in this the last week before festivities begin I have to tell you that despite my promise of six games to report on there are only five as one had to be cancelled. So let’s see how those five game...
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