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Now that our new season is underway, please do email me high scores, stories or letters for this website. The next KTBA Tournament will be the Clubs which will be held at AMF Ashford on 25 January. For further details, click here. John Jowdy coaching articles, "Free Armswing", "Power Step", "Right Slide" and "Trailing Leg" are now available, click here.

It would appear that several Kent leagues have decided not to resanction this season. If you are involved with any of these leagues, I would be interested to hear the reasons for this so please do let me know.

Finally, do read Norm Duke's article "The Mental Game" - Click here

The Bert & Vicky Timms Memorial Mixed Doubles was held at Bugsy's, Cliftonville on 9th November 2008.

Jan and Keith Hodge set a new Mixed Doubles High Game for the Kent All-Time High Scores list. They achieved a superb doubles game of 513 with Keith rolling an excellent 268 and Jan contributing a splendid 245 game. The previous Kent High Mixed Doubles Game was a 488 game bowled at Bexleyheath by D Nicholson (now D Boyd) and C. Crowther (info taken from the KTBA 2002 Anniversary Year Book).

The handicap winners (subject to verification) were Bill Shrimpton and Angie Thick. Bill bowled a 606 (681 h'cap) series and Angie a superb 593 (716), giving them an excellent 1199 (1397) series.

Josh Plewis and Jess Silvester were runners-up in the handicap section, scoring 1187 (1313) and Chris Skudder and Jan Hodge finished third with 1207(1300).

The scratch trophy was presented to Jan and Keith Hodge together with £300 worth of Pro-shop vouchers which they very generously donated to Cliftonville's YBC. Jan rolled a 612 series and Keith achieved a 596 series.

The past couple of months have been busy for our Kent teams with the Seniors, Adults and Under 14's all in action! Our female teams have done particularly well with the Kent Under 14 Girls winning the title and the Kent ladies team qualifying for the finals.
Full details of all Inter County action can be accessed from the Tournament News page.
Well done to all the bowlers who have played for Kent!

UNDER 14'S
The Under 14's Inter Counties was held at Nuneaton on 12th October. The Kent girls team came first, winning by a massive 148 pins.
The team was: Hannah Frost (Whi), Zoe Oldham (Whi), Bethany Harrad (Whi), Becca Luke (Tun) and Georgia Cooper (Cli). Hannah won the high game award with a 246 and the high average award with 196 over 5 games.

The Kent Boys team came 8th.
They were Brynn Salter (Tun), Glenn Nutton (Tun), James McMinn (Cli), Jake Donoghue (Tun) and Tim Standell (Tun).

ADULTS

The Kent Ladies squad travelled to Nottingham on the 1st and 2nd November to compete in the 2008 Inter Counties final, and achieved a very credible 4th place.  The individual averages were: Hannah Smith - 206.8, Jenny Beale - 200.0, Kirsty Belchem - 194.9, Jess Silvester - 194.0, Sam Denne - 177.6 & Denise Dyke - 172.4.

SENIORS
Our Senior teams travelled to Peterborough for the final of the Intercounty Championships and both teams finished in 5th place.

Top average for the men was Keith Hodge with 209.2 over 11 games, closely followed by Peter Allen with 208.5 over 8 games.
Sheila White had the highest ladies average with 184.1 over 9 games.

The 2007-8 season is now finished and the Area High Scores and Club Qualifiers should now all have been notified to us for inclusion.

Please check our records using the underlined links. If you think that we are missing any information please get your league secretary to contact us with the relevant details. We can be contacted using the link below.