Mike Stephenson took the Bromborugh stop in his first showing on tour this year to take the maximum 100 points. Second was Ken Burton and third went to Gary Barlow.
Currently leading the rankings after five stops is UK Tenpin Hall of Famer Ron Oldfield with 230 Pts with Frank Lindsay second on 215 pts. The top 24 landing on Al turner with 112 pts.
With a few notable absentees due to a clash with the Irish Senior Open, 32 bowlers took to the lanes at the ever popular Bromborough bowl efficiently run as always by our host Trevor Green, only 9 bowlers in the morning squad would try to overcome a challenging lane condition. Starting well would be Chesterfield stop winner Brian Sempers with 237 scr, just being shaded by Trevor Green 238scr, Mike Halliwell 223scr and Nev Robinson 221scr, these would all be trying for the leading qualifying spot and a bye into round 4 or a top 13 place to round 2.
Scoring on this condition proved tricky with good games mixed in with not so good ones. At the end of the first squad Brian would lead with 1308 inc bonus, followed by Trevor 1270, Mike 1251 and Nev 1217, we would now see if these would be good enough as the 2nd squad tried to overhaul these scores.
As with the first squad lots of variation in the scoring, starting well Mansfield stop winner Alan Keddie with 720scr for the 1st 3 games but only ending up with 1283 inc bonus. After a sketchy start Gary Barlow with 702scr for his final 3 would just edge out Alan with 1289, another bowler finishing well would be Mark Fullbrook with 483 scr over his last 2 games to post 1309 but eclipsing all of the squad would be veteran Yorkshire senior Alan Jenkins with a 258scr last game helping him to post 1346 with bonus and the bye into round 4.
Other notable performances Kevin Lamb with 1275, Mo Singleton 1265, Norwich bowler Mike Stephenson 1249, England senior lady Angie Brown 1248 and Ken Burton 1248. The cut for round 2 fell at 1224 Suren Johannsen. Round 2 would be a 2 game matchplay decided by a random lane draw. Only one close game in this round as Gary overcame a low 157 first game to edge out Kevin 402-384, other winners Mo beating Angie 414-371, Mike H 400-344 over Suren, Ken 440-348 over Trevor, Mike S 407-344 over Brian and Mark 403-354 over Alan.
Round 3 and the same again a random lane draw to decide opponents. Again only one close match as Ken just overcame Mark 421-411 in a last frame thriller. Other winners were Mike S easily overcoming Mo 420-361 and Gary 436-392 over Mike H. Round 4 and leading qualifier Al J would join the 3 round 3 winners again by random lane draw to play for aplace in the final. Both these games would be nailbiters with Mike S just edging out Al 385-372 thanks to a solid 211 2nd game and Ken would get the better of Gary in another 10th frame thriller 422-411. So to the final and whoever won would be yet another first time winner on the tour. Mike starting with a solid 203 scr to Ken’s 181 scr, could Ken stage a fightback?
No would be the answer as another solid 205scr to Ken’s 188 gave Mike a comfortable 438-399 win and a first title. So congratulations to Mike who made the long journey from Norwich worthwhile with the £300 1st Prize. Commiserations to Ken another long traveller.
So the last stop on the tour was done and now onto the season ending Masters at Mansfield Superbowl on 1st October. My thanks as ever to Trevor and all his staff for the excellent day we had. Jack G Smith.
Final
| LANE | NAME | 1 | 2 | BONUS X 2 | TOTAL | |
| 13 | KEN BURTON | 181 | 188 | 30 | 399 | 2ND |
| 14 | MIKE STEPHENSON | 203 | 205 | 30 | 438 | 1ST |
| 0 |
Round 4
| LANE | NAME | 1 | 2 | BONUS X 2 | TOTAL | |
| 11 | GARY BARLOW | 189 | 212 | 10 | 411 | 3RD |
| 12 | KEN BURTON | 212 | 180 | 30 | 422 | |
| 0 | ||||||
| 15 | AL JENKINS | 168 | 174 | 30 | 372 | 4TH |
| 16 | MIKE STEPHENSON | 144 | 211 | 30 | 385 | |
| 0 |
Round 3
| LANE | NAME | 1 | 2 | BONUS X 2 | TOTAL | |
| 11 | MO SINGLETON | 151 | 190 | 20 | 361 | 7 |
| 12 | MIKE STEPHENSON | 183 | 207 | 30 | 420 | |
| 0 | ||||||
| 13 | KEN BURTON | 188 | 203 | 30 | 421 | |
| 14 | MARK FULLBROOK | 213 | 188 | 10 | 411 | 5 |
| 14 | 0 | |||||
| 15 | MIKE HALLIWELL | 162 | 210 | 20 | 392 | 6 |
| 16 | GARY BARLOW | 182 | 244 | 10 | 436 | |
| 0 |
Round 2
| LANE | NAME | 1 | 2 | BONUS X 2 | TOTAL | |
| 5 | MO SINGLETON | 234 | 160 | 20 | 414 | |
| 6 | ANGIE BROWN | 152 | 179 | 40 | 371 | 9 |
| 0 | ||||||
| 7 | MIKE HALLIWELL | 170 | 210 | 20 | 400 | |
| 8 | SUREN JOHANNSEN | 159 | 175 | 10 | 344 | 11 |
| 0 | ||||||
| 9 | TREVOR GREEN | 176 | 144 | 20 | 340 | 13 |
| 10 | KEN BURTON | 217 | 201 | 30 | 448 | |
| 0 | ||||||
| 11 | GARY BARLOW | 157 | 235 | 10 | 402 | |
| 12 | KEVIN LAMB | 184 | 180 | 20 | 384 | 8 |
| 0 | ||||||
| 13 | MIKE STEPHENSON | 169 | 208 | 30 | 407 | |
| 14 | BRIAN SEMPERS | 151 | 173 | 20 | 344 | 12 |
| 0 | ||||||
| 15 | ALAN KEDDIE | 168 | 186 | 0 | 354 | 10 |
| 16 | MARK FULLBROOK | 195 | 198 | 10 | 403 | |
| 0 |
Qualifying
| NAME | BONUS | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | BONUS X 6 | TOTAL | |
| 1 | AL JENKINS | 15 | 211 | 193 | 211 | 174 | 209 | 258 | 90 | 1346 |
| 2 | MARK FULLBROOK | 5 | 199 | 226 | 205 | 167 | 224 | 258 | 30 | 1309 |
| 3 | BRIAN SEMPERS | 10 | 237 | 199 | 232 | 178 | 185 | 217 | 60 | 1308 |
| 4 | GARY BARLOW | 5 | 174 | 205 | 178 | 202 | 234 | 266 | 30 | 1289 |
| 5 | ALAN KEDDIE | 0 | 250 | 213 | 257 | 192 | 155 | 216 | 0 | 1283 |
| 6 | KEVIN LAMB | 10 | 173 | 191 | 196 | 172 | 257 | 226 | 60 | 1275 |
| 7 | TREVOR GREEN | 10 | 238 | 159 | 235 | 172 | 214 | 192 | 60 | 1270 |
| 8 | MO SINGLETON | 10 | 179 | 202 | 219 | 216 | 168 | 221 | 60 | 1265 |
| 9 | MIKE HALLIWELL | 10 | 223 | 169 | 226 | 196 | 166 | 211 | 60 | 1251 |
| 10 | MIKE STEPHENSON | 15 | 179 | 196 | 188 | 234 | 185 | 177 | 90 | 1249 |
| 11 | ANGIE BROWN | 20 | 169 | 159 | 254 | 208 | 164 | 174 | 120 | 1248 |
| 12 | KEN BURTON | 15 | 184 | 211 | 183 | 190 | 162 | 228 | 90 | 1248 |
| 13 | SUREN JOHANNSEN | 5 | 224 | 183 | 141 | 231 | 208 | 207 | 30 | 1224 |
| 14 | NEV ROBINSON | 10 | 221 | 177 | 165 | 211 | 204 | 179 | 60 | 1217 |
| 15 | TREVOR LAMPRELL | 10 | 203 | 188 | 193 | 200 | 176 | 194 | 60 | 1214 |
| 16 | PAUL NEWTON | 15 | 190 | 228 | 166 | 162 | 230 | 146 | 90 | 1212 |
| 17 | RAY LAY | 10 | 182 | 215 | 187 | 202 | 183 | 182 | 60 | 1211 |
| 18 | LES TAYLOR | 20 | 174 | 192 | 202 | 181 | 170 | 164 | 120 | 1203 |
| 19 | PHILLIPE IVES | 15 | 193 | 194 | 196 | 193 | 183 | 153 | 90 | 1202 |
| 20 | FRANK LINDSAY | 10 | 166 | 164 | 203 | 225 | 200 | 182 | 60 | 1200 |
| 21 | ANDY CLOUGH | 10 | 194 | 125 | 206 | 169 | 210 | 224 | 60 | 1188 |
| 22 | GARETH ROBERTS | 0 | 214 | 183 | 208 | 213 | 208 | 156 | 0 | 1182 |
| 23 | CARL TAYLOR | 0 | 163 | 138 | 246 | 210 | 195 | 225 | 0 | 1177 |
| 24 | PAULINE MCDONALD | 30 | 180 | 151 | 143 | 181 | 171 | 168 | 180 | 1174 |
| 25 | RON DEACON | 15 | 170 | 171 | 157 | 176 | 205 | 188 | 90 | 1157 |
| 26 | JULIE JOHANNSEN | 25 | 226 | 191 | 128 | 166 | 153 | 139 | 150 | 1153 |
| 27 | JEFF TAYLOR | 5 | 187 | 201 | 189 | 192 | 171 | 181 | 30 | 1151 |
| 28 | IAN MCDONALD | 20 | 132 | 156 | 189 | 198 | 169 | 184 | 120 | 1148 |
| 29 | DOUG SINCLAIR | 15 | 167 | 153 | 195 | 180 | 168 | 192 | 90 | 1145 |
| 30 | STEVE COATES | 5 | 171 | 184 | 145 | 161 | 233 | 209 | 30 | 1133 |
| 31 | DAVE BROOMFIELD | 5 | 139 | 149 | 197 | 218 | 156 | 190 | 30 | 1079 |
| 32 | RUTH RATHBONE | 20 | 139 | 159 | 146 | 106 | 142 | 135 | 120 | 947 |
Rankings
| RANKINGS LIST | ||||||||
| NAME | SHIPLEY | SCUN | MANSFIELD | CH/FIELD | BRMBORO | TOTAL | BEST 3 | |
| 1 | RON OLDFIELD | 90 | 80 | 60 | 60 | 290 | 230 | |
| 2 | FRANK LINDSAY | 65 | 65 | 90 | 32 | 30 | 282 | 220 |
| 3 | GEOFF BROWN | 80 | 55 | 80 | 215 | 215 | ||
| 4 | GARY BARLOW | 70 | 29 | 36 | 65 | 80 | 280 | 215 |
| 5 | BRIAN SEMPERS | 16 | 70 | 31 | 100 | 38 | 255 | 208 |
| 6 | MO SINGLETON | 100 | 32 | 24 | 45 | 55 | 256 | 200 |
| 7 | ALAN KEDDIE | 50 | 100 | 40 | 40 | 230 | 190 | |
| 8 | MARK FULLBROOK | 14 | 90 | 25 | 35 | 65 | 229 | 190 |
| 9 | AL JENKINS | 32 | 45 | 30 | 70 | 70 | 247 | 185 |
| 10 | KEN BURTON | 35 | 36 | 50 | 17 | 90 | 228 | 176 |
| 11 | TREVOR LAMPRELL | 60 | 27 | 80 | 10 | 35 | 212 | 175 |
| 12 | MICK INCE | 39 | 33 | 33 | 90 | 195 | 162 | |
| 13 | CARL TAYLOR | 15 | 100 | 18 | 27 | 160 | 145 | |
| 14 | JEFF TAYLOR | 45 | 70 | 29 | 23 | 167 | 144 | |
| 15 | MIKE HALLIWELL | 31 | 31 | 45 | 39 | 60 | 206 | 144 |
| 16 | TREVOR GREEN | 28 | 40 | 55 | 38 | 161 | 133 | |
| 17 | NEV ROBINSON | 24 | 39 | 26 | 50 | 36 | 175 | 125 |
| 18 | RAY LAY | 25 | 23 | 65 | 20 | 33 | 166 | 118 |
| 19 | ALAN BENNETT | 38 | 40 | 29 | 34 | 141 | 112 | |
| 20 | LES GRANT | 37 | 37 | 35 | 9 | 118 | 109 | |
| 21 | JOHN STRETTLE | 55 | 34 | 16 | 105 | 105 | ||
| 22 | DAVE BROOMFIELD | 34 | 17 | 39 | 30 | 19 | 139 | 103 |
| 23 | SUREN JOHANNSEN | 22 | 38 | 15 | 13 | 39 | 127 | 99 |
| 24 | AL TURNER | 40 | 19 | 16 | 37 | 112 | 96 | |
| 25 | LES TAYLOR | 30 | 34 | 3 | 32 | 99 | 96 | |
| 26 | DOUG SINCLAIR | 19 | 35 | 38 | 7 | 21 | 120 | 94 |
| 27 | ANDY CLOUGH | 36 | 25 | 17 | 24 | 29 | 131 | 90 |
| 28 | NICK WRIGHT | 30 | 18 | 32 | 80 | 80 | ||
| 29 | IAN KENNEDY | 50 | 28 | 0 | 78 | 78 | ||
| 30 | RUTH RATHBONE | 21 | 37 | 8 | 18 | 84 | 76 | |
| 31 | PHILLIP IVES | 13 | 22 | 22 | 1 | 31 | 89 | 75 |
| 32 | STEVE COATES | 12 | 24 | 20 | 5 | 20 | 81 | 64 |
| 33 | CAROLE ORANGE | 21 | 21 | 15 | 57 | 57 | ||
| 34 | ROB KAY | 20 | 55 | 75 | ||||
| 35 | ANDY GILLESPIE | 60 | 26 | 86 | ||||
| 36 | JOHN LAWLESS | 29 | 19 | 48 | ||||
| 37 | TONY IMREN | 33 | 22 | 55 | ||||
| 38 | MIKE BERGQUIST | 28 | 19 | 47 | ||||
| 39 | MIKE TAYLOR | 27 | 2 | 29 | ||||
| 40 | STEVE BOSE | 27 | 12 | 39 | ||||
| 41 | GREG BELTON | 26 | 26 | |||||
| 42 | KEN WRAY | 26 | 26 | |||||
| 43 | DAVE BIRDSALL | 23 | 33 | 56 | ||||
| 44 | MARK S SMITH | 23 | 28 | 51 | ||||
| 45 | GLORIA CARNEY | 20 | 31 | 51 | ||||
| 46 | STEVE SKILLICORN | 18 | 4 | 22 | ||||
| 47 | IAN BUCKLAND | 17 | 17 | |||||
| 48 | MIKE MILLS | 11 | 11 | |||||
| 49 | KEVIN LAMB | 38 | 50 | 88 | ||||
| 50 | ALAN HANAFIN | 36 | 36 | |||||
| 51 | GARRY COOPER | 27 | 27 | |||||
| 52 | PAUL NELLIGAN | 25 | 25 | |||||
| 53 | PAUL NEWTON | 23 | 34 | 57 | ||||
| 54 | JULIE JOHANNSEN | 21 | 24 | 45 | ||||
| 55 | RON DEACON | 18 | 25 | 43 | ||||
| 56 | PAULINE MCDONALD | 14 | 26 | 40 | ||||
| 57 | IAN MCDONALD | 11 | 22 | 33 | ||||
| 58 | JOHN BROADHURST | 6 | 6 | |||||
| 59 | MIKE STEPHENSON | 100 | 100 | |||||
| 60 | ANGIE BROWN | 45 | 45 | |||||
| 61 | GARETH ROBERTS | 28 | 28 | |||||
