LATEST NEWS
26 October 2025
County Match v Dorset
Our second County match of the season started well but the when the score reached 52 all, Hampshire failed to move their shot total on for a period, eventually losing the Don Gough Trophy match with Dorset by 99 shots to 112, in spite of winning 4 rinks
Dorset president Jim retained the trophy which was presented to him by our President John Gunson. Congratulations to Ian Holmes, Riverside, Peter Sanders, Longmeadow and John Towner of New
Milton who were presented with their County badges. Also to Terry White, Atherley and Philip Burgess from Victory who received their Colt badges
Top rink for Hampshire was decided on ends won with three rinks finishing with the same shot difference. The winners were the Executive rink of Neil Roderick, Nigel Bechelet, John Kellow and John Gunson
The Patron’s match that was due to be played on 2 November at Atherley has been postponed until 3 January 2026. Please support this re-
25 October 2025
Liberty Trophy v Wiltshire
A good win today for our Liberty Trophy team as we defeated Wiltshire by 135 shots to 117 to set up a second round match against Dorset on Saturday 10 Janaury 2026
24 October 2025
Patron’s v Atherley Match Rearranged
The Patron’s fixture at Atherley, which was due to be played on Sunday 2 November 2025, has been postponed due to lack of Patron’s players. We have re-
Please support this fixture and get your teams in to John Kellow as soon as possible
21 October 2025
Over 60 Inter County v Sussex
A good opening round win for the Over 60s Liberty Team this afternoon against Sussex as we won by 119 shots to 77. In the next round we are drawn against Surrey
The rinks scores were as follows:
Mike Squires 11 -
Robbie Bines 17 -
Steve Spreadbury 18 -
Barry Starks 24 -
Lee Croad 16 -
Colin Thresher 23 -
15 October 2025
County Match v Surrey
Our first county match of the season did not go our way with a defeat by 40 shots, 97-
Unfortunately our two end rinks both lost heavily by a combined deficit of 45 shots. We did however have 2 winning rinks, with the top rink from Victory IBC comprising Roger Somerset, John Stephenson, Mick Clement and Vic Phipps
Congratulations to President, John Gunson who received his 50 game flash, Rob Oliver of Banister Park his County Badge and Phil Packham of Palmerston who got his Colt badge. Next game is at Dolphin against Dorset on Sunday 26 October 2025
11 October 2025
Patrons v Chawton Park
The first match of the season resulted in a defeat by 27 shots, (91-
team. We did however, manage to win three rinks and even shared the number of ends won. Our
downfall was dropping 1 seven, (1st end), 1 six, 3 fives and 5 fours against achieving 1 five and 5 fours
making a difference of 23 shots in those high scoring ends
Congratulations to our top rink from Riverside, Chas Swift, Andy Sharplin, Hugh Coulter and Malcom
Linn. Next Patrons game is at Atherley on 2 November
01 September 2025
County Team Competitions
The details of the various County Team EIBA Competitions have been added to the respective pages on the website
