Leeming takes Berry Hey crown after epic final

The qualifying rounds were on Wednesday and Thursday night at Hove Edge Bowling Club, with first round losers going into the supplementary plate and qualifiers going into the main event on Sunday at 1pm at Hove Edge.

The main event was won by Simon Leeming with a 21.18 success in the final against Bailey Dawson of Akroyd Vics.

It was an epic final with quality bowling throughout, and very close throughout at five apiece, eight apiece, 10 apiece, 15 apiece and then Dawson took the lead at 17-15, only for Dawson to lose his length and allowed Leeming to take advantage and run out a 21-18 win.

Leeming began with a hard game against Andrew Gallagher, who took a 9-2 lead only for Leeming to inch his way back into it and hit the front at 15-14, going on to win to 17.

His semi final win came against Brendan Malone. Leeming took a 15-5 lead only for Malone to hit back to 15-12 but then some great bowling pulled Leeming away to a 21-13 result.

Dawson had three hard games too - a 21-1i win over Mick Walker, followed by a 21-19 game with Peter Callaghan, then falling short in the final to Leeming.

The supplementary was won by Gordon Bradford of Greetland with a 21-18 success against local bowler Steve Rothwell of Hove Edge in another wonderfull final, with Rothwell taking a 10-3 lead only for Bradford to fight back and take a 12-10 lead.

Bradford carried on into a 19-14 lead before Rothwell hit back to 18-19 before Bradford claimed the game.

Bradford started out with a bye, as his opponent was ill, and in his semi final game against Simon Robinson, Bradford was in command throughout, winning to 16, before beating Rothwell in final.

A great day of crown green bowling, and all prizes were presented by sponsor Mike Berry.

Meanwhile the start of the Total Active Ltd Pairs competition starts on Sunday, September 20 at 1030am at Elland CA&BC.

128 entries are all in, but it could have been filled twice over. Some top names in the bowling world have entered, from Simon Coupe, Lee Johnstone and Robert hitchen.

All safety COVID-19 regulations are in place.

The competition runs for nine weeks with the ninth week being the final.