Four junior bowlers represented Congresbury Bowls Club at the Bowls England Under 18 National Singles event at Oxford City BC between May 11th-12th, where they competed against some of the top junior bowlers in the country.

Kimi Powell, Lucas Powell, Madi King and Zach Broom started the tournament on Saturday with the group stages.

Each played three games, the results deciding if they advance into the Cup or the Plate.

After some thrilling bowling all four players won two of their three games, and shot difference resulted in Kimi, Lucas and Madi qualifying for the Cup, and Zach the Plate.

The knockout stages started on Sunday.

Madi and Kimi both had incredibly tight games against strong opponents, Kimi especially, playing against last year’s winner, Charlie Beeton, and each losing by only one point.

Lucas and Zach continued the Congresbury success winning their next games, putting them through to the final 16 in the Cup and the Plate respectively.

Lucas won his first set convincingly, but his opposition came back to narrowly win the second and the tie break by a single shot, whilst Zach struggled on a very tricky rink that his opponent had the measure of.

Despite the lack of trophies there were great performances all round against an incredibly high standard of bowling.