Ely Valley Away (Carruthers)

Yesterday Dinas Powys 1st team travelled to Ely Valley for what was the biggest tie of the Carruthers knockouts for the Vale of Glamorgan, knowing that one decent team would not make the last 32 draw. For some of our players this was their first experience of playing at the Valley, but one they were looking forward to. Dinas knew being the underdogs against a strong looking Ely Valley team that it was a big challenge.

The game started evenly mixed with Dinas leading on 2 rinks, drawing on 1 and losing by 6 on the other on a very slick surface. There was only 4 shots in it to the home side. But by the 10th end, the valley boys had begun to show their class with a few rinks picking up counts of four shots. This extended their lead to 22. Dinas tried to battle back but found it too big of a job and lost out by 37 shots.

Well done to the valley, and we wish them all the best in the rest of the competition. Great bunch of guys. Shame we have to miss out.

Next week, Dinas will try to pick themselves up in another tricky fixture against local boys' Barry Athletic

Rink scores

M Prosser 16-23 M Harding

M Ackland 11-25 P Robins

C Chapman 17-28 C Bayliss

M Woodcock 17-22 C Ashman

Dinas Powys 61-98 Ely Valley

Our second team travelled down to sunny millwood with a number of experience players and new players making there 1st appearance ( Steve Rogers ) in the league. It was disappointing afternoon only coming away with 2 points out of a total 10 available in a very close game with Dinas only losing by 5 shots overall. It was the rink of the T Gittings K Davies C Scott and veteran skip Arty Woodcock that secured the 2 points for the Dinas boys

Rink scores

A Woodcock 23-12

G White 12-23

D Vowels 12-17

Dinas Powys 47 - 52 Millwood

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