Surrey, who reached the finals of the over-60 Inter-County League, have made a slow start to this year’s competition.

On November 5th Surrey played Kent County B.A. in the opening tie, the home venue was at Croydon i.b.c.where a Huge crowd cheered the county on the result at home was won 2 lost 1.

At the away venue at Ashford (Kent) won 1 lost 2, but unfortunately lost the overall score 98-131 to only claim 6 league points of the 26 available due mainly to a few big scores against.

Good results in the remaining matches versus Hampshire,Berkshire & Oxfordshire Bowling association's could still get Surrey into the finals again The next match is (was) against Berkshire county on Thursday 11th November home 3 rinks played at Sutton I.B.C.and the away 3 rinks played at Whiteknights b.c.

Rinks versus Kent at home @ Croydon were......

Gary Fitzgerald, Steve Shanley, Ernie Austin, Dave Clark beat Riley (skip) 20-13 Ted Barlow, Roger Charland, Mike Lambert, Andy Hawes lost to D.Banfield (skip) 11-33 Richard Wooster, Keith Adams, Martin Tuck, John Gale beat Collins (skip) 20-17.

Away team @ Ashford (Kent) Dennis Scrace, P.J.Smith, John Cook, Bob Bass. lost to Coker (skip) 7-25 Deric Homes, Clive Truscott, Alan Windsor, Paul Vamvacopolous.beat Crittle (skip) 26-14 Brian Paramour, Ron Belcher, Peter Hunt, Ian Ross lost to Herridge (skip) 14-29.

Sad news for the Surrey Over 60s Inter County League, after going down to Kent in the first game on 5th November Surrey had their next match on the 11th November against Berkshire County B.A. Surrey won 2 lost 4 (103 - 116).

With three games to play against Hampshire Oxfordshire & Dorset, it is still mathematically possible to claim the runners up position for the group.The teams were...At Sutton i.b.c.

G.Fitzgerald , S,Shanley , E.Austin & D.Clark LOST 15-22 to Nash (skip) D.Mabey , R.Charland, J.Scott & M.Lambert LOST 12-32 to Jones (skip) R.Wooster , K.Adams , M.Tuck ,& J.Gale WON 23-13 to Hawes (skip)

At Whiteknights i.b.c.(Berkshire) D.Scrace , P.J.Smith , J.Cook , R.Bass LOST 12-17 to Brooks (skip) T.Barlow , P.Hunt , J.P.Green ,& I.Ross WON 26-12 to Nash (skip) D.Homes , C.Truscott , B.Martin & P.Vamvacopolous LOST 15-20 to Moss (skip) .