3rd Match . Our team continued it's 100% winning start to the season with a hard fought 12 - 8 victory away at Keighley yesterday. After the usual quite stressful journey there we started slowly and trailed 37 Imps to 32 Imps after the first 8 board stanza. Boards 9 - 16 saw us score 21 Imps to Keighley's 15 Imps meaning we led by just 1 IMP at the half time interval. Stanza 3 boards 17 - 24 was quite eventful seeing individual scores of 1700 and 1400 being registered - one for each team - and at the end of that Keighley shaded it by 28 Imps to 27 Imps to make the match all square at 80 all going into the final stanza. Boards 25 - 32 saw the majority of the points in the hands of East/West with virtually all the contracts being played that way and, thanks to good play by EW and great defence by NS, we won that stanza by 26 Imps to 11 Imps to run out winners by 106 to 91. Despite our 3 consecutive victories we only currently sit 3rd in division 4 as league positions are based on average points gained per game and some teams have only played 1 game so far. Our next game is on Sunday 20 November at home to Wensleydale who are currently top of the division and also unbeaten.
Yorkshire League
4th match scheduled for
Sunday 20th November
at home versus Wensleydale.
2pm start
Further details later
Well played everyone with wins in all three Yorkshire League matches of the season so far. Keep up the good work.
YL Second match
Congratulations to our team on another fine victory today in a closely contested match at Wetherby. After taking an early lead in the first stanza Team Barnsley found themselves trailing at the half time break. However strong performances in the third and fourth stanza's saw Team Barnsley prevail at the end and maintain their unbeaten start to this season. 12-8 victory. Well done everyone 👏
We now have dates and fixtures for the Winter League. There are FIVE matches before Christmas, a break over January and February and then the final TWO matches in March.
The fixtures are as follows:
25th September Barnsley v Bradford C
16th October Wetherby B v Barnsley
30th October Keighley C v Barnsley
20th November Barnsley v Wensleydale
4th December Wakefield B v Barnsley
12th March Barnsley v York C
26th March Huddersfield A v Barnsley
All face to face matches are played with teams of EIGHT players over 32 boards. All matches start at 2pm and refreshments will be provided by the home team.
Please contact Margaret if you are interested in representing the club in these competitions