INDOOR MATCHES 2023/24

Our final Indoor match of the 23/24 winter season was against our sister organisation SADLBA and held at Harpenden IBC on Saturday 23rd March. It proved to be a good win for SADBA and played in great spirit. The match report can be found here:- Result Sheet SADBA v SADLBA 23rd MARCH 2024

The match against London Scottish was held at Watford Woodside Indoor Bowls Club on Saturday 2nd March. It was a great and close match with London Scottish winning by only one point. The Match Report is here:- Result Sheet SADBA v London Scottish 2nd March 2024

The prestigious President’s Invitation Shield match was held on Sunday 21st January at 2.30 pm at Hatfield Bowls Club. The President, Gordon Burrow, led a team against the four 2023 winning teams of the Bob Vise Trophy (Welwyn & District), Jones Cup (Welwyn Garden City), Triples League (Potters Bar) & Club Rink League (Batchwood ).

There was a great afternoon of bowling with a lot of laughter and enjoyment across the rinks, albeit one rink took the competitive spirit rather too far and finished a lot after the others.

The winners were Welwyn Garden City and the runners-up Batchwood. The Welwyn Garden City winning team was: T Seeby, G Frost, I Stone and L Brown. The District Top rink was A Parsonage (North Mymms), D Kilvert (Harpenden), P Stokes (North Mymms) and R Banks (Hatfield

Many thanks go to the 4 clubs who were invited to come, to all players from Clubs who joined the President and played for the District and to 9 visitors who came along to support.

Special thanks to Michael Woodhams for organising the event and acknowledments to Michael Scandrett and David Salmon who helped with refreshents and to all who contributed to the President’s charity, SENSE.

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SADBA’s indoor match against Harpenden Indooor Bowling Club at their indoor facilities was held on Saturday 18th November at 2.30pm. The match result is here: Result Sheet SADBA v HARPENDEN IBC 181123

The first indoor match of the winter season was against Watford Woodside IBC at their Club. The match was on Thursday 12th October, and Woodside won comfortably.

However, the game was in great spirit and Woodwise provided an excellent meal afterwards. The Match Report can be found here: Result Sheet SADBA v WATFORD W IBC 121023

President's Welcome Message

This year, for the first time in our history, we do not have a President in post so matches and other functions during the year will each be led by one of our Officers. We do, however, have a Deputy President, Jan Southwell, who was our President in 2018. Jan is unable to fulfil full Presidential duties this year but looks forward to being our President in 2025.

Despite the fact that we have few new faces wanting to step forward to lead SADBA into the future, we have an exciting and promising year ahead, both outdoors and indoors. As usual our Inter-Club League matches are fully subscribed and our Competition entries are up once again reflecting the keen interest in the association and competitive bowling.

With a Deputy President in place our Bob Vise final will be at Jan’s own Club, Potters Bar, on August Bank Holiday Monday. Our Finals Day will once again be at Harpenden Bowls Club which proved to be an outstanding venue in 2023 with excellent facilities and support from the Club.

M J Woodhams, Secretary & Past President