LATEST NEWS

20 January 2019

Hampshire suffered a defeat against a Berkshire side who are still going strong in the Liberty Trophy. A close match up to the halfway stage ended in an away victory by 41 shots, (85-126)

Top rink for Hampshire was the Riverside rink, Brian Whitear, Ralph Flint, Bill Lucas-Brown and Ernie Scase. Three players, Ashley North, (Banister Park), Ralph Frost, (Banister Park) and Bruce Kirkham, (Palmerston) received their colts badges from President Bill Jackson

18 January 2019

The draws for all County Championships have been made and uploaded to the relevant pages

23 December 2018

Unfortunately our Under 25 Double Rink team lost to Kent this morning. Despite winning on the away rink at Ashford by 20 shots to 12, the home rink were beaten by 12 shots to 20 resulting in an overall 3 shot defeat

16 December 2018

The final fixture of the year was played against London Scottish today at Chawton Park. Hampshire won convincingly by 37 shots overall by 133 shots to 96

The top Hampshire rink, with a score of 30 - 14, was the executive rink of Brian Hopkins, Stuart Logan, John Kellow and Nigel Bechelet. Congratulations to Les Pycroft OBE of Victory who was presented with a 75 games played flash. Colts badges were awarded to Stuart Read of Victory and John Hardy of New Milton. Our first fixture of 2019 is against Dorset at Atherley IBC on Sunday 6 January at 2pm

15 December 2018

In our first match in this season’s Liberty Trophy we were defeated by Berkshire today by 108 shots to 140

09 December 2018

Hampshire travelled to Taunton Deane to play Somerset today

Our commitment to fulfil 6 rinks was in doubt up until the morning of the match but thank you to all for playing, especially the ones that came in at the last minute

Unfortunately, Hampshire were defeated by 30 shots overall, by 106 shots to 136, but Hampshire won on one rink, with a score of 27 - 14. They were the Palmerston rink of M Johnson, B Noble and B Hopkins ably supported by Deryn Dickie

Congratulations to Ernie Scase of Riverside who was presented with a 75 games played flash

Our last fixture of 2018 is against London Scottish BA at Chawton Park IBC on Sunday 16 December at 2pm

05 December 2018

The Mixed Pairs Competition draw has been added to the Competition tab

24 November 2018

Success at Home Counties Indoor Bowls Association Finals

Congratulations to Hampshire in the shape of the Loddon Vale rink of Duncan Rogers, Jeff White, Steve Shaw and Trevor Morgan won the Fours final. This is the first success that a Hampshire team has had at any finals. The final was played against the Hertfordshire rink and after 9 ends the sides were tied at 5 shots all. Hampshire then won the next seven ends before Herts got a shot and gave up an end later with a final score of 23 – 6

The other finals results can be found on the Home Counties IBA website.

20 November 2018

In the second round of the National Over 60’s Inter County competition we faced Sussex today but we were defeated by 112 shots to 127 to end our participation for this year

14 November 2018

Hampshire entertained Sussex this afternoon at Victory IBC.This fixture is always tough match for Hampshire as Sussex field experienced players but this year we had a great win by 125 shots to 93 - well done to all who played

Our Top Rink, with a score of 29 - 12, was Victory’s Graham Clark, Steve Cowdrey, Dave Surman and Reid Wilcockson

President Bill Jackson had a busy afternoon awarding badges with Colts badges to Martin Wells of Loddon Vale and Dennis Wren of Palmerston as well as County badges to Dave Lee Rehorn of Banister Park together with Steve Cowdrey and Dave Surman, both of Victory. Brian Hopkins of Victory and Jeff Passmore of Palmerston were also awarded their 25 game flash

The next County fixture is the Victory 50th Anniversary match on Saturday 24 November

12 November 2018

We have just heard the shock news that Alan Turvey passed away this morning. Alan served the County as Secretary for several years and was President of both HIBA in 2000/1 and EIBA in 2006/7

He also worked tirelessly as Chairman of the Old Basing outdoor club and he will be greatly missed by many and our thoughts are with his family at this sad time

The funeral will be held at St. Mary’s Church, Old Basing at 1pm on Thursday 29 November

11 November 2018

Atherley Patrons had a runaway start to our match today leading by 29 shots at the halfway stage but the Patrons fought hard to end the day just 9 shots behind. It was a count back for the highest winning rink between Banister Park and Victory with Victory just pipping Banister Park

Many thanks to all those that donated items for the raffle, so far in three matches we have raised £149.00 for the County

10 November 2018

The first Bramley Bowl League table has been uploaded

04 November 2018

Hampshire travelled to Moonfleet IBC in Weymouth to play Dorset for the Don Gough Trophy today

Dorset and Hampshire play for this trophy on the same weekend every year at the same venue so it is a competitive affair but always played in good spirit

This year Hampshire had a convincing win by 134 shots to 109 and well done to all who took part which now gives us a fixture tally of 3 wins to 2

Hampshire’s top rink, with a score of 41 shots to 18, was Martin Johnson, Terry Gormely and Jeff Passmore from Palmerston and ably skipped by Arthur Newland from Victory

It was great to see new players joining the teams and Colts badges were presented to Jason Smith from Atherley and Kevin Goode from Palmerston

The next friendly is against Sussex at Victory IBC on Wednesday 14 November at 2.00pm
 
27 October 2018

The Patrons had an enjoyable day in good company at Loddon Vale today as the home team made us feel welcome allowing us to have a good win overall winning on 4 rinks. The highest winning rink was Banister Park just edging out the other high winning rink of Palmerston by two shots on the last end

Thanks to the generous raffle donations by members we have raised £101 in two matches so far this season. If you have any raffle items that you are willing to donate these will be very welcome

23 October 2018

In the first round of the National Over 60’s Inter County competition we faced Berkshire today and defeated them by 116 shots to 87 to set up a second round tie against Sussex on Tuesday 20 November

18 October 2018

HIBA played Surrey IBA at Wey Valley IBC today. Surrey fielded many of their O60 National County Players and although the score in the early part of the match was 32 shots each, they ran out worthy winners beating us by 55 shots (146-91)

We had two winning rinks - Atherley and Palmerston, who both won by 1 shot, but as Palmerston scored on 11 ends -  2 ends more than Atherley, Bill Noble, Martin johnson, Jeff Passmore and Dave Heather were awarded the top rink prize

Colts badges were awarded to Geoff Topp - Chawton Park, Charlie Pearson - Rushmoor, Dave Lawson - Atherley County Badges were awarded to Bill Noble and Martin Johnson - Palmerston and Maurice Saunders - Loddon Vale

The next match will be on 4 November v Dorset at Moonfleet IBC

06 October 2018

Hampshire Patrons faced a very strong team from Chawton Park IBC today and at the halfway stage Chawton had 71 shots to the Patrons 63. Despite a slow start the winning rink for the Patrons of Tony Jennings, Bill Noble, Martin Johnson and Neil Roderick did well to come back from 2-12 after 9 ends to end up winning 25-14 to help seal a win for the Patrons by 1 shot at 121-120

Our next match is on the 21 October at Loddon Vale IBC

07 September 2018

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