Horsham’s Miller reaches final after thriller

The snowy weather played havoc with the weekend’s fixture list but did not prevent Sunday’s area semi-final at Broadbridge Heath between arguably the two best players in Sussex.

Watched by a number of hardy Horsham IBC members who braved the snow, Miller raced into an early 7-2 lead over Adur Club bowler Hubbard.

The away player though cameback to level at 7-7 after eight ends, and at the end of 15 ends there was still no separating the pair with the score 12-12.

Hubbard went 13-12 up, but from there the Horsham player took charge to win 21-13 and end a match of the highest quality.

Miller will now contest the area final on a neutral green, to be arranged at a later date.

On the previous Monday Horsham Ladies were unlucky not to record a win at Preston in a league match.

Horsham lost by only four shots, but by four rinks to two.

Top Horsham rink went to Rita Dando, Linda Adamson, Linda Gladwell and Heather Grant 28-15.

On Wednesday Horsham IBC enjoyed a good friendly win against Sutton & District BA.

The overall 154-85 shots score rather flattered Horsham’s winning margin.

Top Horsham rink was Derek Bunday, Ken Holloway, Barry Baillie and skip Geoff Kentish 41-14.