2025 indoors season cup competitions
The indoors bowling season is already in its final stages; and this season the Club is entering teams for three local cup competitions:
1. The Moreton Cup (matches played at Longmeadow, Whitchurch) - 2 teams (Andover Lions & Andover Eagles)
This is an open competition with no specification as to the composition of the teams. The full rules can be found here but essentially this year the Moreton Cup features four groups of four teams, with the quarter finals - due to take place in February and March 2025 - featuring the first placed and runner-up in each group.
Fixtures and results
27 Oct: Parkside (1 point) 32 - 37 Andover Eagles (4 points)
3 Nov: Andover Lions (5 points) 62 - 19 BTC (0 points)
24 Nov: Andover Eagles (3 points) 34 - 29 Winchester City (2 points)
1 Dec: Andover Lions (5 points) 46 v 26 Littleton (0 points)
12 Jan: Andover Eagles (3 points) 40 v 32 Oakley (2 points)
19 Jan: Andover Lions (0 points) 22 v 35 Kingsclere (5 points)
Thus Eagles qualify for the quarter finals as group winners, joining Lions who qualified in second place in their group. Congratulations everyone!
23 Feb: Andover Eagles v Whitchurch
2 Mar: Atherley v Andover Lions
Full results and fixtures for all the teams in the competition, plus all the league tables, can be viewed in the links at the bottom of the page.
2. The Hamblin Trophy (matches played at Riverside, Winchester, with a 6.30 start time), in which Andover are the double defending champions
The Hamblin Trophy is a mixed competition, with each team (of four players) consisting of at least one man and one woman. There are two leagues in the Hamblin Trophy; the Club plays all the sides in our league (League B), with fixtures against Waterside, Lyndhurst, Littleton B, Alton Social, Hyde Abbey B and Winchester City. A finals day is scheduled for 16 March with the top sides in leagues A and B facing each other in the final with the two second placed teams battling it out for 3rd and 4th places.
Fixtures and results
17 Nov: Waterside (0 points) 25 - 49 Andover (2 points)
1 Dec: Andover (2 points) 46 - 29 Lyndhurst (0 points)
26 Jan: Littleton B (0 points) 13 - 50 Andover (2 points)
2 Feb: Alton Social 32 (2 points) v 27 Andover (0 points)
16 Feb: Hyde Abbey B v Andover
2 Mar: Winchester v Andover
The full fixture list can be found in the link at the bottom of the page. Andover sit second in League B, one place behind Hyde Abbey B, having played one game fewer, and have an aggregate record of 176-95 and 6 points from our four games so far.
3. The John Ash Trophy (matches played at Five Rivers, Salisbury; 8/9 February)
Update: WINNERS! You may have already read about this via the news link on the home page; if not, the story is available right here, too: just click to read.
Any Club member wishing to join in and play in any of these competitions should let Gordon Bazley, men's team captain, or Jackie Kingston, women's team captain, know via the usual routes.