Summer team captains get your entries in by March 16th or lose your place to the several teams waiting. And winter team captains, remember your 2025/26 season team sheets arrived in your pigeonholes on February 25th; you need to get your entries in by April 4th so no time to waste.

Many of you may not be aware but the current Cygnets sessions are full to bursting and so the decision was taken to encourage some to move on. This is part of a concerted effort by the Bowls Committee to make more rink sessions available for roll-ups, competitions and the like. Previously, Cygnets could stay…

The new summer competition for the Finlay MacKenzie Trophy will be for Drawn Mixed Pairs. How are Drawn Open Aussie Pairs and Drawn Mixed Pairs different, you ask? Drawn means your teammate is chosen for you; Pairs means, one team member leads the other skips, unlike Aussie Pairs where lead and skip alternate; and Mixed…

With five matches played, East Dorset remains bottom of the Wessex league, with one match left to come against Bannister Park. Bannister Park has also lost all five of their matches but have more points through higher (losing) scores. In the Bramley league, East Dorset has slipped to fifth out of eight, still better that…