Thanks to Jeanette Higham for this report.

The end of the 2024 season was marked with the popular, and fiercely contested, Vet’s Club Championship held, this year, at Rhuddlan Bowling Club.

President Pauline Lindley, Immediate Past President Jack Hunt and members of the WCGBA Management were all in attendance. Their support can be relied upon for all of the WCGBA events throughout the year and they must clock up many miles and hours for everyone’s benefit.

The trophy is known as the Mel Higham Trophy and brother, Peter was there to honour both his late brother and the championship.

This year, the qualifying teams were, Coed Talon, Rhos Park, Llay ‘B’ and Craig y Don. Coed Talon and Rhos have won the title on previous occasions.

In the first semi final group, Craig y Don played Rhos Park. The Rhos team were on excellent form winning the first four blocks. For Craig y Don, the best win was enjoyed by Gary Roberts 21-8 over Roger Wilson. Rhos’s Peter Abrahams at game 7 had a tough match with Kevin Williams of Craig y Don losing 21-17 in the end.

Final scores were Craig y Don 109 and Rhos Park 151.

In the second semi final group Llay found Coed Talon a tough nut to crack. Coed Talon won five out of the eight blocks with the best results coming from Brian Salisbury 21-4 over Carl Williams and Dave Baison 21-6 over Barry Cupit. Both these players took commanding leads from the beginning.

Final scores from this group were Llay 116 and Coed Talon 122.

Teams order of players having been chosen by Coed Talon and Rhos, the Final got underway. Coed Talon’s Tudor Griffiths and Trevor Williams had tough games with Tudor eventually winning 21-17 and Trevor a loss 21-18 to Roger Wilson. Mark Ball for Rhos stormed away to win 21-8 over Richie Jameison and Glyn Jones lead all the way to 21-4 against Dave Baison, who was unable to find the same form from his first match.

Rhos Park justly won the trophy for 2024 with the final tally, Coed Talon 127 and Rhos Park 140.